User Manual

Loading presets

Plenty of presets are provided with FabFilter Saturn 2, giving a good idea of what you can do. You can

either use the presets as they are, or tweak them further to create your own unique sounds.

To load a preset, click the preset button. The presets menu will appear with all available presets.

Click a menu item to load that preset. The currently selected preset is highlighted with check

marks.

To explore the presets one by one, click on the little arrow buttons to the left and right of the main

preset button. This will load the previous or next preset in the menu.

The preset button shows the name of the current preset. If you have changed the preset by adjusting

one or more parameters, the name is dimmed to indicate that this is not the original preset anymore.

Tips

The Default Setting preset is loaded automatically when FabFilter Saturn 2 is started. To change

the default settings, simply overwrite this preset by clicking Options > Save As Default in the

presets menu.

To open a preset outside the presets folder, click Options > Open Other Preset. This might be

useful if someone sends you a preset by email, for example.

If somehow the factory presets are lost or not installed properly, click Options > Restore Factory

Presets in the preset menu to restore them.

MIDI Program Change and Bank Select

Loading a presets can also be done via MIDI, using Bank Select and Program Change messages. Click

Options > Enable MIDI Program Changes in the preset menu to enable or disable this feature. When

enabled, the corresponding bank/program numbers are shown in front of the preset name (for example:

(0/65) My Preset). This means that you can load that preset by first sending a Bank Select message to

select bank 0 and then sending a Program Change message to select program 65.

Important: All the presets in your preset folder are numbered automatically, starting with bank 0 and

program 0. This way, you are able to access any of the presets via MIDI. However, this also means that

when you add new presets to the menu, bank/program numbers of other presets might change. Be

aware of this when recording program changes in a session! We recommend to create a dedicated folder

in your presets folder for your program changes, and name it with two leading underscores (e.g.

"__Programs") to ensure it's the first folder in your preset collection and the presets in this folder start

with bank 0 and program 0.

Next: Saving presets