Re: AU Presets for multiple plugins
Re: AU Presets for multiple plugins
- Subject: Re: AU Presets for multiple plugins
- From: Brian Willoughby <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:49 -0800
On Nov 16, 2009, at 09:36, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
Apart from the GUI the two plugins are identical but because they
are separate components with different resource IDs etc presets are
not interchangeable. Other than implementing a simple patch
manager inside the plugin is there any way to convert presets
between AUs?
I do not believe that there is any automatic means for doing what you
want. However, you could add your own UI for importing a foreign
preset. All of the code for loading presets is open source, so you
should be able to load the foreign preset, translate it, and then use
it as a native preset.
This solution would require manual operation by users, and I assume
you would prefer this to be transparent, but I think it will be rare
that users actively create presets in both Carbon and Cocoa flavors.
It seems more likely that public presets should be authored in both
formats, and you can hopefully offer a translation tool, while
private presets should typically be only for the primary UI flavor
that the user gets with their favorite DAW. Users who regularly
switch between multiple DAWs, where they get both Carbon and Cocoa UI
plugins, will probably have a mess to deal with, and thus need the
foreign preset import.
Good luck!
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
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