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Track Presets
Introduction
Track presets are templates that you can create from au-
dio, MIDI or instrument tracks – or several of these tracks.
With these track presets, you can then create new tracks
or apply them to existing tracks of the same type.
The idea behind track presets is:
• To allow you to quickly access, browse, select, change
and preview sounds.
• To give you an easy way to reuse channel settings
across projects.
Track presets are part of the VST Sound concept (see
“VST Sound” on page 284) and organized in the Sound
Browser (a view of the MediaBay, see “The MediaBay” on
page 287). This allows you to categorize track presets
with tags like “EPiano” or “Jazz” and search for these tags.
Related topics
Cubase offers a variety of related functions that allow you
to handle presets of program settings:
• You can save and load channel settings in the mixer (not
for MIDI), see “Saving mixer settings” on page 141.
• You can save and load inserts rack and EQ presets, see
“Inserts and EQ settings from track presets” on page 310.
• You can export and import tracks as track archives (Cu-
base only), see “Exporting and importing tracks (Cubase
only)” on page 460.
Types of track presets
There are four kinds of track presets:
• Audio
• Instrument (this also includes certain VST3 presets, see
“VST (Instrument) presets” on page 303)
• MIDI
• Multi (any number of the three preset types above in any
sequence)
Since the purpose of track presets is to make sound
handling easier, only parameters are saved that are rele-
vant for the sound of a certain track.
Audio track presets
Track presets for audio tracks include all inserts and ef-
fects that “define” the sound. Since there are big differ-
ences between the typical settings for a trumpet and a
human voice, for example, audio track presets are a quick
way to optimize your track.
For example, you can:
• Easily audition your audio track with the factory presets.
• Use the factory presets as a starting point for your own
editing.
• Save the audio settings that you optimized for an artist
you often work with and use the resulting audio track pre-
set for future recordings.
Data saved in audio track presets
• Insert FX settings
• EQ settings (including VST effect presets)
•Volume + Pan
• Input Gain + Phase
Ö Note that volume, pan, input gain and input phase will
be restored only when creating a new track from a track
preset.
Instrument track presets
Instrument track presets are best choice when handling
sounds of simple, mono-timbral VST Instruments. Like the
instrument track, they offer both MIDI and audio features.
• You can use instrument track presets like the audio
track presets above for auditioning your tracks, inspiration,
or saving your preferred sound settings.
• In addition, you can directly extract sounds from instru-
ment track presets and VST presets for use in instrument
tracks.
VST presets also behave like instrument track presets,
see “VST (Instrument) presets” on page 303.