I find the workflow for tweaking patches that belong in a playlist cumbersome. There should be a way once you’re rehearing in playlist mode to tweak a patch and resave it in-place instead of having to exit playlist mode, find the patch, edit it, re-save it and then replace it in the playlist. This is really cumbersome with multis. Can this workflow be sorted in a future update please?
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Hi Darrell,
Normally you can save your presets from within any playlist that you have created yourself.
It’s just the AstroLab Demo playlist that doesn’t allow saving, but the User Playlists do. Have you created a playlist, then a new song, and then added presets there and tried using Shift + Playlist button (Save) on those? You will get the options to either Save (overwrite the preset you’re currently playing) or Save As (save that sound somewhere else, in another playlist or song.
Let me know if that worked for you! Happy to help
Lily
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Thanks for the reply Lily!
Last night, I was using shift-playlist to save my edits, but the problem is, when I’m in song mode and press playlist to edit my preset, it doesn’t exit to the preset I’m currently playing. It goes to a completely different preset. The workaround I found was to switch to an Artist preset first. Then, when I go to my playlist, select a preset and then exit, it goes to the preset that in my playlist. Very strange!
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Suggested shift/select category key to save the currently active preset right there. It’s the one thing missing for me from this otherwise great instrument.
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Just double-checked this with AstroLab 1.4.4.
So, yes, Shift+Playlist while in Playlist mode does open the Save/Save As (only Save for the factory “AstroLab Demo” playlist).
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Save: saves the edited preset in the current Playlist/Song (replaces the unedited preset in the Playlist/Song, but keeps the current preset name).
This does not change the original preset in the Library/Soundbank. -
Save As: saves the edited preset as a new preset in the “User” soundbank with a new name (by default, with an incremented number appended at the end of the name).
This does not change the preset in the Playlist/Song.
If you want to save an edited preset in the Playlist/Song with a different name (so you know it’s an edited preset), you should use a combination of the “Save” function and the “Rename Song Preset” function (in Playlist mode, Shift+click the screen dial, or long-press the screen dial when the cursor is on the preset). It doesn’t seem to matter whether you Rename it first and then Save it, or Save it first and then Rename it.