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4.Click OK.
The new preset is added to the Select Browse Location Presets pop-up 
menu (which can be opened by clicking on the down arrow icon).
When you now open the Select Browse Location Presets 
pop-up menu and select the new preset, the respective 
preset folder will be selected in the Browser display.
To remove a preset from the Select Browse Location 
Presets pop-up, select it from the pop-up and click the 
“Remove Browse Location Preset” button (the “-” icon).
Finding files in...

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Performing a search
The MediaBay allows you not only to view and edit some 
of the standard file attributes found in all computer files, 
but it also provides preconfigured tags, or “categories”, 
that you can use to organize your media files. 
The advantages of such categorization become obvious 
when having to find one specific file, e. g. a certain guitar 
sound, among large numbers of media files from various 
contexts, without knowing the name of that file.
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To select a tag value, simply click on it. To deselect it, 
click the value again.
Note that you can select more than one value in each tag column.
Click the Reset button on the top right of the Filter sec-
tion to clear all settings in the tag columns.
This will also reset the tag list settings.
Previewing files in the Scope 
section
Below the Viewer you will find the Scope section. It allows 
you to play back files selected in the Viewer section.
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You can drag & drop a folder to a different location.
You will be asked if you wish to copy or move the folder to the new 
location.
Viewer operations
You can move/copy a file from the Viewer section to a 
different location by clicking and dragging it to a different 
folder in the Browser section.
You will be asked if you wish to copy or move the file to the new location.
To insert a file into the project, right-click the file and se-
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Introduction
Track presets are templates that you can create from au-
dio, MIDI or instrument tracks – or several of these tracks. 
With these track presets, you can then create new tracks 
or apply them to existing tracks of the same type. 
The idea behind track presets is:
To allow you to quickly access, browse, select, change 
and preview sounds.
To give you an easy way to reuse channel settings 
across projects.
Track presets are part of the SoundFrame concept (see 
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Data saved in instrument track presets


 Audio Volume + Pan
 MIDI Insert FX


And also:
 Staff settings
 Color settings
ÖVolume and pan will be restored only when creating a 
new track from a track preset.
MIDI track presets
MIDI tracks offer more possibilities than instrument tracks; 
therefore, they should be used for multi-timbral VST In-
struments.
Due to the resulting complex settings, more details have 
to be taken into account when working with MIDI track 
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Data saved in multi track presets
For each track type, the respective track preset parame-
ters are saved in the same sequence as the tracks in the 
Project window.
VST presets
As of VST3, VST presets make it easy for you to work with 
VST plug-ins and instruments, substituting the .fxp and 
.fxb files of the VST2 standard.
There are two kinds of VST presets:
 VST presets based on effect plug-ins
 VST presets based on VST Instrument plug-ins
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SoundFrame-related dialogs
When you work with track presets, you will find the same 
user interface in all “Add Track” and “Browse Sounds” dia-
logs and the Presets browser.
ÖNote that some of the dialogs will save their last state. 
They may therefore not look exactly like the dialogs de-
scribed below.
Browse Presets section
When you create a new track, the Add Track dialog opens:
The “Add MIDI Track” dialog.
(For a more detailed description of the Add Track dialog, 
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The Presets browser
When you apply a track or VST preset to an existing track 
or when you extract a sound, the Presets browser opens, 
allowing you e. g. to preview the presets.
The Presets browser for an audio track preset.
The Browse Sounds dialog
Normally, the view of the Browse Presets section is fil-
tered to show only track presets of a certain kind. There-
fore, if you want to see all available presets, e.g. also multi 
track and VST presets, you can open the Browse Sounds...