Question

What are presets and what do they do?

Answer 1

Presets represent all the values in your entire MIDI Designer setup. For example, a knob called "Sweep" might be set to 45° (or an outgoing MIDI value of 32). When you store a preset, that value is saved. When you recall a preset, all controls snap to the value they had at the time the preset was saved. So your sweep knob would snap to 45° regardless or what position it's in, and that value would be sent out to all hardware/software that is connected.

Presets are available from the main tongue that drops down from "More" for both save and recall. The "alt" button switches to the second group of 10 presets, so you can access 1-10 or (alt) 11-20.

 

All other editing functionality (including deleting, (re)naming and ordering) can be done via Config -> MIDI -> Edit Presets

 

Global Presets in 1.5.0

 

 

See another question about this here.

 

Presets for Groups of Controls in 1.6

 

Comments

Just wanted to add my description...
Presets are like snapshots in Kapturepad, but without all the script conflict problems. Perfect.
But I'd love to see the preset idea expanded to be more performable, customisable big buttons and XY morphing....

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Great. I understand "more performable, customisable big buttons" but what does "XY morphing" mean?

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The ability to assign 4 selected presets to an X-Y pad. so that the snapped parameters change incrementally, smoothly, 'morphing' from one preset to another.... e.g. preset one is at the top left of the x/y, preset 2 at the top right, 3 bottom left and 4 bottom right.

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Kapturepad is limiting though in what it can work with, but mididesigner could sidestep all of that... exciting!!

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Great ideas, l will see how these fit into MD. It's going to take a little but, though, as I'm in full force on the iTouch version right now. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Hmmm... apparently we HAD talked about morphing between presets before. #memoryFail ;)

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Oh yeah, morphing between presets... hmmm... will need to revisit this. Anyway, check http://midiDude.com/presets16 for the new presets in 1.6

Answer 2

Presets represent all the values in your entire MIDI Designer setup. For example, a knob called "Sweep" might be set to 45° (or an outgoing MIDI value of 32). When you store a preset, that value is saved. When you recall a preset, all controls snap to the value they had at the time the preset was saved. So your sweep knob would snap to 45° regardless or what position it's in, and that value would be sent out to all hardware/software that is connected.

Presets are available from the main tongue that drops down from "More" for both save and recall. The "alt" button switches to the second group of 10 presets, so you can access 1-10 or (alt) 11-20.

 

All other editing functionality (including deleting, (re)naming and ordering) can be done via Config -> MIDI -> Edit Presets

 

Global Presets in 1.5.0

 

 

See another question about this here.

 

Presets for Groups of Controls in 1.6