I'm designing a flexible preset system for my live setup. Basically(!) it includes a couple of looper/slicers, a flexible drum machine, a few effects/filters and probably a mixer of some sort....you know the usual

I was thinking it would be cool if it had the same sort 'Scene' functionality a la Live's session view. i think it would be best to store the presets into tables that can be saved off as text files

Would it be best to have a preset table for each component? Then save each chosen preset into a master table for the 'Scenes'. What if I had to store a list of sample filenames? I want to build this right from the start ya see

cheers

i've been working on this same thing today. it ended up being very similar to the memento system, but is possibly simpler. i haven't made any help documentation for it, but maybe you can figure it out. might give you some ideas anyway.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/808-states.tar.gz

(open 808-example.pd first)

I do the following :

• each patch has its own presets. Not in a table but via (rather large) messages.
• my master patch also has presets which actually sets the correct preset on each patch

Probably not as elegant as a table solution - especially the saving to/load from files is missed - but its simple and it works. I've also been thinking about table based solutions, but then i've noticed that, although i initially always think i'm going to need 100 presets for a patch, i always stick to the same 3 or 4 presets (per patch).

Nevertheless hardoff, any chance of a valid windows archive?

Thx,

D.

yeah.. there's no documentation for this though. i just made it yesterday.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/808-states.zip

cool thanks - still working it out but I get the idea

if you were saving multiple presets, would you be creating txt files for each or would you append each 'chunk' after the next in the text file? I s'pose you would each preset a prefix ID number

S

this is what i use for saving status. ok... there is just "one preset" but i just got idea to combine this metod with shunt (from gridflow). then it would be possible to save many pressets and not just one...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/saving_status.pd