Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
- From: Marc Poirier <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:02:31 +0200 (CEST)
Art, I don't see how any of the previous suggestions preclude a user from
putting presets anywhere she wants. All we are talking about is defining
a standard place where any app could look and expect to find presets. And
conversely, a user who puts the preset files there could reasonably expect
all AU host apps to look there and find the presets, automagically (isn't
that nice?). But if the user don't want to put preset files there, then
the user puts them elsewhere, and the OS doesn't go boom, so what's the
problem?
Marc
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Art Gillespie wrote:
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Oh man, I completely missed this thread. And I've got an alternative
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option: None.
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I think someone's got their head around this the wrong way. Presets
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are user documents, period. These options of 'where to store them'
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indicate that they're being thought of as components, which they most
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certainly are NOT. I don't want Project Builder saving my source files
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in my preferences directory (or even making decisions about the layout
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of my source tree) and I don't want Word bundling all my .doc's in a
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single file in my Preferences directory.
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If a user wants to be able to share his presets among his apps (or his
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colleagues), it's not too much to ask him to manage them himself (e.g.
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setting up his own presets folder with subfolders for apps). Also, the
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notion of a global list of available presets for a given plug-in is
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absolutely absurd. I've got nearly 300 (hard-earned) presets for
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Waves' Ren Reverb... and there's no expletive way I want to see them
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all in a drop-down list at once. I'd rather load a bank from a
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directory location that I set.
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So what's the big deal with this? Why try to enforce preset management
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schemes on the user (and complicate a standard?). Hosts should simply
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give users the option to load/save presets/banks in the location of
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their choice... IMNSHO the only thing that's necessary is
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standardization of bank/preset file format.
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Best,
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Art
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>>0xBA
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