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Working with Track Presets
Applying Inserts and EQ settings from track
presets
Instead of handling complete track presets, it is also pos-
sible to apply Insert or Equalizer settings from track pre-
sets:
1. Select the desired track, open the Inspector or the
Channel Settings window and click the VST Sound button
on the Inserts or Equalizers tab/section.
The presets pop-up menu is opened.
2. Select “From Track Preset…” in the pop-up menu.
The Presets browser opens, showing all available track presets that con-
tain Inserts or EQ settings.
3. Select the track preset with the desired Inserts or EQs
and click outside the browser.
For information on the general handling of Inserts presets,
see “Effect presets” on page 94. The general handling of
EQ presets is described in the section “Using EQ pre-
sets” on page 79.
Extracting sound from an instrument track or
VST preset
For instrument tracks, you can extract the “sound” of an
instrument track preset or VST preset, that means the VST
Instrument and its settings.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the instrument track to which you want to apply
a sound.
2. Click the VST Sound button below the Output Rou-
ting field in the Inspector.
The Presets browser opens, showing a list of all available
presets.
3. Select an instrument track preset or VST preset by
double-clicking on it.
The VST instrument and its settings (but no inserts, EQs and modifiers)
of the existing track are overwritten with 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.
Ö The VST instrument of an instrument track does not
show up in the VST Instrument window but only in the
Plug-In Information window, see the section “The Plug-in
Information window” on page 97.
Creating a track preset
A track preset is created from an existing audio, MIDI or
instrument track – or several of these tracks. Proceed as
follows:
1. Select one or more tracks in the Project window.
If several tracks are selected, all of them are stored in one combined
multi track preset, see “Multi track presets” on page 156.
2. Right-click one of the selected tracks in the Track list to
open the context menu and select “Create Track Preset”.
The Save Track Preset dialog opens.
3. Enter a file name in the “File Name” field.
The track preset file name extension .trackpreset is assigned automatically.
• If you selected a MIDI track, you can include either the
MIDI channel or the MIDI patch in your track preset.
Ö If you want to use a MIDI track preset for a pre-config-
ured VST Instrument setup, load the VST Instrument(s) in
the VST Instruments window, select a VST Instrument
patch, save the track preset and do not change the patch
afterwards. To ensure this, use a template project with the
VSTi setup included and save the sounds (track presets)
of this template project in specific subfolders, as they only
work within this setup.
4. Open the “Tag Editor” by clicking on the correspond-
ing option and edit the tags.
5. Click OK to create the track preset.