Preset Management

[Manu El Malik (GTHC-Studios)]

Hi,

can anybody explain how to give a meanigful name to the presets I creat, using FireBird+ ver. 1.11?
As the bank management is often mentioned as quite improvable, I guess I'm not the only one having this problem, but I couldn't find any hints on this here.

How do the sound designers, creating preset banks, rename the presets?  
Is there any third party app required?  

Thanks in advance!

[Bastiaan van Noord]

Hi Manuel,

Firebird uses the host's FXP/FXB management functions, so options like renaming largely depend on how much the host supports it.

One thing you could do for preset bank management (most of us designers do this) is to use MiniHost (http://www.tobybear.de/p_minihost.html) for creating / organizing bank files, easy to move/copy/rename presets with its bank manager.

I hope that helps.

-Bastiaan-

[Manu El Malik (GTHC-Studios)]

Hi Bastiaan,

thanks for the quick reply! Usually I use Ableton Live as my host, but as I can't manage the presets using it, I will download and install MiniHost. Very helpful answer!

This should do the trick...  

Best regards,

Manuel

[Bastiaan van Noord]

Hi Manuel,

I figured Live had some sort of preset management on-board, not a Live user though so I'm not sure how extensive it is.

Nevertheless, you'll like Minihost for it's preset management capabilities, it's very easy to manage banks/presets and save the result into a new FXB file in there.

Best,

-Bastiaan-

[Manu El Malik (GTHC-Studios)]

Yes Bastiaan,

Live has a feature to save or load banks (*.fxb) and patches (*.fxp), but you can't rename or sort the presets in a bank. So MiniHost will probably help me a lot.

Thanks,

Manuel


Upps, guess I was wrong! One can also rename presets in Live (Ctrl+R), but only if one selects the plugin itself end not the preset. I was always wondering why this isn't working. Now I know.... 

[Bastiaan van Noord]

No problem

[mxnm@]

Hey I am having trouble using firebird in Native instruments Maschine. I can't load or change presets while using firebird inside maschine as a vst plugin. Can you help with this?

[Bastiaan van Noord]

Hi,

Firebird preset loading & saving requires that the host supplies an FXP/FXB load-save interface, as far as I know Maschine does not offer this, at least it didn't include FXP/FXB handling in previous versions.

[Manu El Malik (GTHC-Studios)]

Oh yes, I had the same issue in Melodo. It's a cool thing, but VSTs in the VST need an internal preset manager. Loading banks or switching presets in FirBird is not possible.

Too bad.