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-title: Managing Plugin Presets
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-<p>
- All plugin control widgets, whether they are created by Ardour or
- by the plugin, have a common set of controls at the top of the window.
- These include 4 controls for managing <dfn>plugin presets</dfn>.
-</p>
-
-<h2>What Is a Plugin Preset?</h2>
-<p>
- A <dfn>preset</dfn> for a plugin is simply a saved set of values for
- all of a plugin's parameters. If you load a preset, you are restoring
- all the parameters of that plugin to the values stored in the preset.
- This is an easy, fast way to manage your preferred settings for
- particular plugins.
-</p>
-
-<h2>The Preset Selector</h2>
-<p>
- The <dfn>preset selector</dfn> is a regular selector that can be
- clicked to display a list of all known presets for this plugin. This
- will include presets that you have created yourself, and for some
- plugin formats, presets that come with the plugin itself.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Load a New Preset</h2>
-<p>
- Click on the preset selector to pop up a menu showing the names of
- all available presets. Click on the name of the preset you wish to load.
- The preset will be loaded — you may see various controls in the
- plugin editor change to reflect the new value of some or all parameters.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Create a Preset</h2>
-<p>
- To save the current plugin settings as a new preset, click on the
- <kbd class="menu">Add</kbd> button at the top of the window. A dialog
- will appear to ask for the name of the preset.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Save a Preset</h2>
-<p>
- If you wish to modify the settings in an existing preset, first use
- the preset selector to load the preset, then adjust the settings as
- you wish. When done, click the <kbd class="menu">Save</kbd> button
- and the new values will be stored, overwriting the previous version
- of this preset.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Delete a preset</h2>
-<p>
- To delete an existing preset, use the preset selector to load the preset.
- Click the <kbd class="menu">Delete</kbd> button, and the preset will be
- removed. The preset selector turn blank, showing that no preset is
- currently loaded (although the settings will stay as they were).
-</p>
-