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2 Presets and MIDI maps
Lounge Lizard Session comes with several factory presets covering a wide range
of sounds. This collection of presets lets you play and familiarize yourself with
this synthesizer without having to tweak a single knob. Soon, however, you will
be experimenting and creating your own sounds and projects that you will need to
archive or exchange with other users. You may also want to control the parameters
of Lounge Lizard Session with a specific MIDI controller. In this chapter, we will
review the management of presets and MIDI maps.
2.1 Presets
There are two concepts involved in the management of presets, the preset library
and programs.
2.1.1 The Preset Library
The preset library contains the factory pre-
sets, modified versions of the factory presets you
might have made or any other new presets you
might have saved. The library may also contain
imported presets as well as MIDI maps as ex-
plained in Section 2.6 and 2.7. In other words,
the preset library is a repository of all the pre-
sets and MIDI maps available to Lounge Lizard
Session.
All the operations on the preset library are
conveniently managed with the help of the Lounge
Lizard Session browser, similar to those found
in most email programs which use a hierarchical
tree structure and a visually intuitive, drag and drop approach. To explore the dif-
ferent presets available in the library, open the different folders by clicking on the
“+” icon Windows or I symbol on Mac OS to the left of folders. Each preset is
represented by a blue knob icon followed by its name.