5.3
Editing and Saving Presets
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5.3
Editing and Saving Presets
Moving the different controls on the
Strum Acoustic
interface modifies the preset loaded in the
current program. As soon as the current program is modified, the preset icon located on the left of
the program name in the toolbar changes color and a ‘*” sign is appended to its name in the program
list. In this state, the preset loaded in the current program is different from its original version stored
in the preset library even if they share the same name. If you wish to keep a permanent copy of the
modifications, you must save this new version in the preset library.
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To save the new version in the preset library, use the
Save Preset
command from the
File
menu or the Ctrl-S/Apple-S shortcut. Be careful, however, as using this command will over-
write the original preset. If you are not certain of which preset will be overwritten in the
library, first use the
Locate Program in Browser
command from the
Programs
menu or the
Ctrl-L/Apple-L shortcut in order to locate it in the browser.
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To create a new preset, use the
Save Preset As
command from the
File
menu. A window will
appear asking for a name for the new preset. Once the preset is saved using this command, a
new preset icon will appear in the browser directly under the
Library
folder.
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To create a new preset, it is also possible to rename the program using the
Rename Current
Program
from the
MIDI
menu (or the Ctrl-R/Apple-R keyboard shortcut) and use the
Save
Preset
or
Save Preset As
commands.
When editing presets, it is very helpful to go back and forth between the different stages of your
modifications and adjustments. To move back step by step through every modification that was ap-
plied to a preset, use the
Undo
command from the
Edit
menu or the Ctrl-Z/Apple-Z shortcut. Once
the
Undo
command has been used, it is also possible to move up again through the modifications
by using the
Redo
command from the
Edit
menu or the Ctrl-Y/Apple-Y command. The number
of
Undo
levels is unlimited and this command is effective on any control of the interface but not
on the different
Save
commands.
Once a preset has been modified, it is also possible to move back and forth between the current
state of the preset in the program list and its original version archived in the preset library. To
hear the original preset, simply click on the
Compare
button at the top of the interface or use the
Compare
command from the
Edit
menu. Once this button has been pressed, the original settings
of the preset are loaded. In this mode, the graphical interface is frozen and it is therefore not
possible to modify the preset. To further modify the preset, click on the
Compare
button again or
uncheck the
Compare
command in the
Edit
menu to revert to the modified version of the preset and
unfreeze the interface. To reload the original version, use the
Locate Preset in Browser
command
from the
View
menu, or the Ctrl-L/Apple-L shortcut and double click on its icon in order to reload
this version into the current program.
Strum Acoustic
will make sure that you do not loose modifications to a preset. In the case
where a program holds a modified version of a preset and when trying to load a new preset from
the library into this program, the application will ask you if you want to save the modified preset
