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VST Instruments
3. If necessary, click on the track name at the top of the
Inspector to open the basic track settings.
4. Click in the Programs field in the Inspector.
This opens the Presets Browser. Selecting a new preset overwrites the
settings of the current preset so any unsaved changes will be lost.
5. To exit the browser, double-click the desired preset or
click somewhere outside the window to close it.
• You can also open the preset list from the VST Instru-
ment’s control panel. Simply click in the Preset name field.
• If you click the VST Sound button (the cube symbol),
the “Load Preset…” dialog opens.
This dialog is much like the Preset list, but there is a differ-
ence:
• If you use the “Load Preset” dialog, this allows you to
preview the settings of other presets without actually load-
ing them. If you chose to cancel the operation, the preset
that was selected before opening the dialog will be re-
loaded exactly as it was, including any unsaved changes. If
you activate “Auto Preview” below the Viewer section, you
can step through the presets and play them via MIDI.
• When you use the Preset list, selecting another preset
will load it directly, replacing the previous preset.
• The Viewer section of the Load Preset dialog and the
Preset list automatically display all the available presets for
the instrument.
6. When you have selected an instrument preset, click
OK to close the Load Preset dialog or – if you used the
Preset browser – double-click the preset or click outside
the browser window to close it.
Saving VST Instrument presets
You can save your edited settings for further use (e.g. in
other projects):
1. In the VST Instrument panel, click the VST Sound button
to the right of the name field.
This opens a 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.
Presets are saved into a default folder named VST3 Pre-
sets. Within this folder, there is a folder named “Steinberg
Media Technologies” where the included presets are ar-
ranged in sub-folders named after each instrument.
You cannot change the default folder, but you can add fur-
ther subfolders inside the instrument’s preset folder.
• Under Windows, the default preset folder is in the fol-
lowing location:
Boot drive/Documents and Settings/User name/Application data/VST3
Presets.
• Under Mac OS, the default preset folder is in the follow-
ing location:
Users/Username/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Presets/
3. In the File name field in the lower part of the dialog you
can enter a name for the new preset.
4. Click OK to store the preset and exit the dialog.
About earlier VST Instrument presets
You can use any VST 2.x Instrument plug-ins in Cubase AI.
Adding VST Instrument plug-ins works the same way as
for audio effects – see “Installing additional VST plug-ins”
on page 15.
When you add a VST 2 plug-in, any previously stored pre-
sets for it will be of the old FX program/bank (.fxp/.fxb)
standard. You can import such files, but the preset han-
dling will be slightly different. You will not be able to use
the new features like the Preview function until you have
converted the old “.fxp/.fxb” presets to VST 3 presets. If
you save new presets for a VST 2 plug-in these will auto-
matically be saved in the new “.vstpreset” format in the
default location.