I’d like to make a suggestion regarding the handling of presets.
While I didn’t work much with presets at first and used rack states to control the plugins parameters I started to create my own presets.
So, what I think is not useful (this is the behavior now) is, that changes made to a preset will instantly be overtaken in that preset. So f.e. if I open the cutoff, advance to the next preset and go back, the cutoff is still open. Is that useful? Doesn’t it make more sense to have a button which saves the changes to the preset instead of doing it automatically? I’d love to have the option to turn that function off. Or maybe having an option that a dialog opens up and asks if the changes should be saved? Of course this can lead to problems when using and modulating presets within a song. So this dialog should be optional.
What do you think about it? Or does it have something to do with how plugins handle the presets themselves? Maybe @brad can enlighten me on this.
Ah’; thought I was the only one who found this behavior strange.
Now I always use a new rack state to try out changes to parameters.
Hardware synths often had a “compare” button that was nice to have but it is mostly gone in vst world.
Yup, this is generally how the VST standard handles things - no saving for “standard vst presets”; they just incorporate any changes directly into the current instantiation. Still, a number of plugins implement their own preset mechanisms (u-he synths among them); for those, Cantabile provides “pseudo presets” which are essentially a full plugin memory dump for every preset.
Sure, @brad could implement an “explicit save” behavior for these presets - but that would create strange behaviors: some plugs (standard vst presets) would keep every change; others (pseudo presets) would need explicit saving. Not sure if that creates even more confusion.
Personally, I really like explicit saving, so for most of my recent racks, I use “full bank” state behavior where that doesn’t create strange conflicts with plugin-internal preset systems. With this, I explicitly save the current config with “update state” - keeps things predictable.
I fully agree, imo the songs should reset when switching back and forth.
I installed the R shortcut for that.
But i would love to see it as a standard behavior.
Or at least have the option in the settings.