Re: Filing of User Presets
Re: Filing of User Presets
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets
- From: "James Chandler Jr." <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:20:46 -0400
Hi Robert
A standard file format would be great.
Also a standardized place to put presets, so that all hosts would find them
without a lot of user searching.
Most DirectX filter presets on PC are a pretty standardized registry storage
format, but different major hosts store the presets in different places in
the registry. When writing a DirectX supporting host, if one wanted to find
all possible user presets, one would have to search several places, which is
unnecessary extra programming work IMO. Would be nice to avoid such
incompatibilities in a brand new AU format.
Another thing which would be nice to standardize, if not already done, is a
standard format to save an entire series chain of plugins, including all the
settings for each plugin in the chain.
The little DX Host I write on the PC, has a "plugin group" feature that I
find very convenient for common settings. It is convenient to set up and
save ferinstance a master output insert chain including EQ->MultiBand
Dynamics->PeakLimiter, with typical settings already adjusted. Whenever that
group is needed in a new song, just load the entire thing in one action,
rather than laboriously inserting each plugin and loading the proper plugin
preset. This is such a timesaver (IMO), it would be nice if all hosts could
load/save the same format for plugin chains (and preferably all hosts would
use a standardized location on the user's hard drive).
James Chandler Jr.
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