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VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
4. Click in the Programs field in the Inspector.
The Preset browser is opened.
5. Step through the presets during playback to find the
sound you are looking for.
6. Double-click the desired preset to load it and close
the preset browser.
• You can also open the preset browser by clicking in the
preset name field in the control panel of a VST Instrument
or by clicking the VST Sound button in the control panel
and selecting “Load Preset…” from the pop-up
• Selecting another preset in the preset browser will load
it directly, replacing the previous preset.
• When the preset browser is open, you can still use
Project window key commands, allowing you to start/stop
playback or locate to different positions in the project.
• Clicking the Reset button below the Viewer will reload
the last loaded preset.
Saving VST Instrument presets
You can save your settings as presets for further use (e.g.
in other projects):
1. In the VST Instrument panel, click the VST Sound but-
ton to the right of the preset name and select “Save Pre-
set” from the pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog where you can save the current settings as a preset.
Presets are saved into a default folder named VST3 Pre-
sets. Within this folder, there is a folder called “Steinberg
Media Technologies” where the included presets are ar-
ranged in sub-folders named after each instrument.
You cannot change the default folder, but you can add fur-
ther subfolders inside the instrument’s preset folder.
• Under Windows, the default preset folder is in the fol-
lowing location:
Boot drive/Documents and Settings/User name/Application data/VST3
Presets.
• Under Mac OS, the default preset folder is in the follow-
ing location:
Users/Username/Library/Audio/Presets/<company>/<plug-in name>
2. Enter a name for the new preset in the File name field
in the lower part of the dialog.
• If you wish to assign attributes to the preset, click the
Tag Editor button.
Click in the Value column to select an appropriate “tag” for one or sev-
eral of the available categories in the Attributes column. Tagging is de-
scribed in detail in the chapter “The MediaBay” on page 287.
3. Click OK to store the preset and exit the dialog.
Extracting sound from Track Presets
You can extract a sound from a Track preset (disregarding
any track/channel settings) and save it as a VST preset.
Proceed as follows:
1. Click the VST Sound button (“Extract sound from
Track Preset”) below the Output Routing pop-up menu in
the Inspector.
This opens a dialog where all Track Presets are shown.
2. Select an instrument track preset or VST preset and
click OK.
The VST Instrument and the settings (but no inserts, EQs or modifiers) of
the existing track are overwritten using the data of the track preset. The
previous VST Instrument for this instrument track is removed and the
new VST Instrument with its settings is set up for the instrument track.
Track Presets are described in detail in the chapter “Track
Presets” on page 300.