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5. Double-click on the desired preset (or click outside
the Presets browser) to apply the preset.
• To return to the preset that was selected when you
opened the Presets browser, click the Reset button.
• You can also open the Presets browser by clicking the
button to the right of the preset field an selecting “Load
Preset” from the Preset Management pop-up menu.
• The preset handling for VST 2 plug-ins is slightly differ-
ent, see “About earlier VST effect presets” on page 96.
The Browser sections
The Presets browser contains the following sections:
• The “Search & Viewer” section (displayed by default)
lists the available presets for the selected effect.
• The Filter section (displayed when you click the Catego-
ries button) shows the available preset attributes for the
selected effect.
If no attributes have been specified for the effect presets, the columns
will be empty. If attributes have been assigned to a preset for this effect,
you can click on the attribute in the respective column (Category, Style
etc.), to filter out all presets that do not match the selected attribute(s).
• If you also activate the “Show Location” button, the
Browser & Filter section is displayed, allowing you to
specify the Presets folder that should be searched for
preset files.
Saving effect presets
You can save your edited effect settings as presets for
further use (e.g. in other projects):
1. Open the Preset Management pop-up menu.
2. Select “Save Preset…” from the pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog where you can save the current settings as a preset.
3. In the File name field in the lower part of the Save Pre-
set dialog, enter a name for the new preset.
• 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.
4. Click OK to store the preset and exit the dialog.
User-defined presets are saved in the following location:
• Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\<user name>\Appli-
cation data\VST3 presets\<company>\<plug-in name>
• Windows Vista: \Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\
VST3 presets\<company>\<plug-in name>
• Mac: /Users/<user name>/Library/Audio/Presets/<com-
pany>/<plug-in name>
You cannot change the default folder, but you can add fur-
ther subfolders inside the individual effect preset folders.