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Track Presets
Data saved in instrument track presets
•Audio Insert FX
•Audio EQ
• Audio Volume + Pan
• Audio Input Gain + Phase
• MIDI Insert FX
•MIDI Track Parameters
• Input Transformer
•VST Instrument
And also:
• Staff settings
• Color settings
Ö Volume, pan, input gain and input phase will be re-
stored only when creating a new track from a track preset.
MIDI track presets
MIDI tracks offer more possibilities than instrument tracks;
therefore, they should be used for multi-timbral VST In-
struments and external instruments.
Due to the resulting complex settings, more details have
to be taken into account when working with MIDI track
presets, to ensure that the saved settings are really usable
as presets for new tracks.
• To ensure that saved MIDI track presets for external in-
struments will work again with the same instrument later,
install the instrument as MIDI device, because in this case
the MIDI interface and the connecting ports are irrelevant.
(For this to work, the MIDI device has to have exactly the
same name as in the original setup.) For more information
about this, see the separate pdf document “MIDI Devices”.
Include MIDI Channel or MIDI Patch
There is an additional Include option when creating MIDI
track presets:
• Choose “MIDI Patch” if you want to save the MIDI track
preset with the currently set patch. This is useful if your ex-
ternal MIDI device offers sounds as certain patches but
does not require any specific channel settings.
• Choose “MIDI Channel” if you want to save the MIDI
track preset with the currently set channel. This is useful if
you have the sounds of an external device always on the
same channel, e.g. strings on channel 12, trumpets on
channel 13.
Ö The choice is exclusive – you can either save the
channel or the patch, but not both.
Example 1: Multi-timbral external instrument
Assume you have a multi-timbral external instrument (for
example, a MIDI Expander), with all sounds available on all
channels, but the sounds (patches) might change.
In this case, set it up as an external instrument, open a
MIDI track and select it as output. In the Programs List,
select a patch. Then save the MIDI track preset with the
patch included.
Example 2: Multi-timbral external instrument with pre-
configured setup
In a rarer case we have a multi-timbral external instrument
(for example, a Sampler) which is completely pre-config-
ured. There is no sound (patch) to configure, but only the
device and the MIDI channel to know.
In this case, include the channel in the MIDI track preset
so that the correct channel will be called up.
Example 3: VSTi as pre-configured setup
If you want to use a MIDI track preset for a pre-configured
VST Instrument setup, the following conditions have to be
met:
• The VST Instrument(s) are installed in the VST Instruments
window.
• The VST Instrument patches have not been changed since the
track preset was saved (that means for example that no other
FXP/FXB was installed in the meantime).
To ensure this, use a template project with the VSTi setup
included and put the sounds (track presets) of this tem-
plate project into specific subfolders, as they only work
within this setup.