SONAR tip: Default Plug-In Presets

AWESOME!!! Thanks, Scott! I've wanted to do that for years, but had always tried in the plugin itself and never had success. You just made my day.

GREAT tip, Scott - Thanks.
 
I also applied this last night to fix something that has driven me NUTS for about a month now.
 
I have been working on recreating a mostly midi version of a prog tune called Night Meets Light.
 
I used the MinimogueLUXUS-TD 32-bit variant of the freeware MinimogueVA synth, to recreate the synthesizer solo lead sound in my recreation.
 
What had been happening is that although Sonar remembers the last 'state' of this soft synth, which had a preset I created and saved in it, every time I loaded the project, the synth INTERNALLY had loaded the first preset in its bank.  It DISPLAYED my preset as what was loaded, BUT the actual sound that was coming out was really a completely different Minimoog sound.
 
So what I have been having to do is open up the synth in the rack, to get at its properties page, then change to a different preset, then change BACK to the same preset that had been SHOWING as being loaded, but really hadn't been.
 
Once I did the above, the proper sound would play.
 
QUITE the pain in the drain, to say the least.
 
SOOOOO, last night, after reading this post, it occurred to me that I might 'borrow' and adapt the technique you shared in this post, to save me the hassle of having to muck around with what I described above.
 
I went into my VST Plugins folder, where my 32-bit plugins are, and went into the MinimogueLUXUS-TD folder and copied its contents (the dll and a sub-folder) to the Windows clip board.
 
I then backed up one level to the VST Plugins folder and created a new folder, into which I pasted in the dll and sub-folder from the clip board.  I now had a new folder, called MinimogueLUXUS-TD-NML, with its own complete copy of the synth's dll and its control folder.  Prior to backing back out of this new folder, I renamed the synth dll to 'MinimogieLUXUS-TD-NML', so that it would show up with this new name in the insert synth list in Sonar.
 
Now, I fired up a new project (Normal template), that I used to load the new MinimogueLUXUS-TD-NML synth into the synth rack.  I opened up the properties page for the synth, and altered the very first preset it loads so that all of the settings from the patch I had created when I first had made the preset from the real Night Meets Light project, for the keyboard lead sound, were now saved as the first preset in the synth's bank.
 
Now that I had created this special version of the synth, with its overwritten 1st preset, I closed out of this project (didn't need it anymore), and opened up the REAL Night Meets Light project.
 
Now, I deleted the existing 2 instances of the original MinimogueLUXUS-TD synth from the synth rack, but did NOT let it delete the associated tracks.  I then inserted 2 instances of the newly-created MINIMOGUELUXUS-TD-NML synth, and fixed the audio and midi tracks to point to these now, and also made sure my preset (the altered 1st preset in its bank) was loaded for both instances.
 
Now, every time the project loads, it still loads that 1st preset, which is some kind of bug somewhere (presumably in the synth, as Sonar had loaded the correct preset before, but the synth was improperly actually playing the sound from the wrong preset, as noted earlier).
 
TA DA!  My project NOW properly plays the correct lead sound in the rigged up version of the synth that I had created, and I no longer have to deal with doing all of that repeated nonsense every time I had loaded the project prior to applying a modified form of Scott's technique.
 
Scott, this worked well for me, and it actually took me longer to type all of this into this post that it did to actually DO what was needed.
 
Thank you again, Scott, and if anybody else has a similar issue, at least you now have a means of working around it.
 
Bob Bone
 

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Scott - that's a great tip! Thanks much for posting it. Very nice of you to be both helpful and to remind us we can learn more about it in your book.

Hey Roger... Glad I could help! Yeah, most of the tips I'm posting are actually found in the SONAR Power! books. The books are loaded with tips. http://www.garrigus.com/
 
Scott

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