I noticed today that i have had to hoover the mouse arrow over the spot that digi2unes indicated, then the folder icon appears and can be clicked. Otherwise, i never knew it was there. Hid from me all along. The folder has about 20 or 25 presets in it. Kewl. Thanks again guys.

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I noticed today that i have had to hoover the mouse arrow over the spot that digi2unes indicated, then the folder icon appears and can be clicked. Otherwise, i never knew it was there. Hid from me all along. The folder has about 20 or 25 presets in it. Kewl. Thanks again guys.

Yeh I should have mentioned its hid until the mouse being hovered over it makes it appear.  Glad to hear ya figured it out.


So they were already there?,  Great Im not loosing my mind  


Let me know if they load the same every time the same way for ya. 

I just finished a project and I tried using the presets, but I don't like to compress too much in individual busses except on bass drum, snare, acoustic guitar, and bass guitar. Everything on the presets uses a compression. I found a couple of the acoustic guitar presets kind of nice to use on the two different tracks I recorded with a large condenser and a small condenser. I personally didn't like them - found them a little too harsh for my needs.

There was a few presets that came preloaded with X1 Expanded and X2 but you can get the rest of them from here http://www.cakewalk.com/P...SONAR/Preset-Zone.aspx

 Hey guys can't you also save an entire track configuration into a track preset that includes the PC. I tried this last night on a drum track I liked and it saved everything. The track was frozen though so in order to save the track preset to be tweaked I had to unfreeze it from another project and then save it as a track preset.

 Track presets seem to include everything in a track so if you have things in the VST folder they will be saved too.

 I have used the PC presets too. You can save your own as presets,and share them if you want.

 I know a lot of folks roll their own and shy away from presets. I can honestly say that the presets usually put me closer to my goal than not. In addition they enabled me to see how many plug-ins I have that I probably didn't need since getting the PC.

Mike.  am I hearing you correctly?  When you use a PC Preset (Fingered Bass, for example), it gets inserted in different configurations in different tracks?  Like, EQ off in one, Compressor off in another?

I happen to use Fingered Bass PC Preset very often.  It loads the same way, every time, every track.  I use it as a starting point, and tweak to taste.  It behaved this way in X1 and now in X2.  Actually I use quite a few of the PC Presets, and have never seen the phenomenon I think you are describing.

So I am at a loss for advice to give you.

BTW-  there are quite a few very useable, musical PC Presets if you give them a try.  Take a listen to "Electric Dirtbag" on a crunch guitar track, or "Concrete Kick" on a drum track.  You might like them.

Hope you find the problem and share solution.