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Audio effects
• You can also open the Preset browser from the Inspec-
tor. Click the Inserts tab for the channel with the effect and
click in the Preset name field.
• Click the SoundFrame button (the cube symbol) to
open the Preset Management pop-up menu and select
“Load Preset…” from the pop-up menu that appears.
The “Load Preset” dialog opens.
This dialog is very similar to the Preset browser, but there
is a difference in how the effect presets are loaded:
• If you use the “Load Preset” dialog, this allows you to se-
lect different presets and to audition them without actually
loading them. If you choose to cancel the operation and exit
the dialog, the preset that was selected before opening the
dialog will be reloaded exactly as it was, including any un-
saved changes. See “Auditioning presets” on page 14.
• When you use the Preset browser, selecting another
preset will load it directly, replacing the previous preset.
3. When you have selected an effect preset in the list to
the left, click OK to confirm the selection in case you used
the Load Preset dialog, or simply click outside the browser
window.
Auditioning presets
A new VST 3 feature is the option to audition effects be-
fore you load them. This works as follows:
1. Load an effect as usual for the track you wish to pro-
cess.
2. Start playback.
It may be helpful to set up cycle playback of a section to make compari-
sons between different preset settings easier.
• Open the Load Preset dialog by clicking the Sound-
Frame button in the effect slot and select “Load Preset”
from the pop-up.
3. Activate “Auto Preview” below the Viewer display.
4. With playback still running, you now can step through
different presets in the list and hear the results instantly!
• If you activate “Preview” in step 3 it works similarly, but
you have to activate Preview for each selected preset to
audition the settings.
• To confirm a preset selection and to load it, click OK.
• If you click Cancel, the previously loaded preset will re-
main, including any unsaved settings.
Saving effect presets
You can save your edited effects for further use (e.g. in
other projects):
1. Click SoundFrame button to open the Load/Save Pre-
set pop-up.
2. Select “Save Preset…” from the pop-up.
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 subfolders named after each effect.
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In the Inspector there is a dual functionality. When an
effect is loaded into a slot you can click on the Preset
name (or in the bottom half of the effect slot) to open
the Preset browser. Clicking in the upper half of the
slot will instead open the Effect selection pop-up.