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Working with Track Presets
Introduction
Track presets are templates from audio, MIDI or instrument
tracks that can be applied to newly created or existing
tracks of the same type. They contain sound and channel
settings, thus allowing you to quickly browse, preview, se-
lect and change sounds, or reuse channel settings across
projects.
Types of track presets
There are four kinds of track presets (audio, instrument,
MIDI and Multi) and two kinds of VST presets (VST Instru-
ment presets and VST effect plug-in presets). These are
described in the following sections.
Ö Note that volume and pan will be restored only when
creating a new track from a track preset.
Audio track presets
Track presets for audio tracks include all settings that “de-
fine” the sound. You can use the factory presets as a
starting point for your own editing and save the audio set-
tings that you optimized for an artist you often work with as
a preset for future recordings.
The following data will be saved in audio track presets:
• Insert FX settings (including VST effect presets)
•EQ settings
• Volume + Pan
Instrument track presets
Instrument track presets offer both MIDI and audio features
and are best choice when handling sounds of simple,
mono-timbral VST Instruments. Use instrument track pre-
sets for auditioning your tracks, inspiration, or saving your
preferred sound settings. You can directly extract sounds
from instrument track presets for use in instrument tracks.
The following data will be saved in instrument track presets:
•Audio Insert FX
•Audio EQ
• Audio Volume + Pan
•MIDI Track Parameters
•VST Instrument
• Staff settings
• Color settings
• Drum map settings
MIDI track presets
MIDI tracks should be used for multi-timbral VST Instru-
ments. When creating MIDI track presets you can either in-
clude the currently set channel, or the currently set patch.
See “Creating a track preset” on page 158 for details.
The following data will be saved in MIDI track presets:
• MIDI Modifiers (Transpose, etc.)
• Output + Channel or Program Change
•Volume + Pan
• Staff settings
• Color settings
• Drum map settings
Multi track presets
You can use multi track presets e.g. when recording setups
that require several microphones (a drum set or a choir,
where you record always under the same conditions) and
have to edit the resulting tracks in a similar way, or for lay-
ered tracks, where you use several tracks to generate a
certain sound instead of manipulating only one track.
If you select more than one track when creating a track
preset, the settings of all selected tracks will be saved as
one multi track preset. Since you can apply a multi track
preset only if the target tracks are of the same type, num-
ber and sequence as the tracks in the track preset, multi
track presets are useful when you have a recurring situa-
tion with very similar tracks and settings.
VST (Instrument) presets
VST Instrument presets (extension .vstpreset) are VST
presets that behave like instrument track presets in the
context of the Project window and contain a VST Instru-
ment and its settings but no modifiers, inserts or EQ set-
tings. You can directly extract sounds from VST presets
for use in instrument tracks.
The following data is saved in VST Instrument presets:
•VST Instrument
•VST Instrument settings