You trawl through the presets as a one-time deal, perhaps soon after you installed your Arturia software. So another possible workflow to get that list size down goes like this. You want to get that preset list cut down to as small as possible as you'll find yourself auditioning sounds within it again, and again, and again. So yes, if that sounds like the meat of the work I did in this assistant is pretty much redundant, then you're hearing me right.Īll is not quite lost however. I honestly couldn't be bothered and simply deleted them instead, and now I just work with their stock presets as a result. And then at the beginning of 2021, things changed and they dropped updates that completely conflicted with it, updating hundreds of presets with new audio settings and categorisation, presets that I had previously duplicated, and would now need to delete, reduplicate and recategorise again.
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Now, for a while Arturia updated their presets during software updates in a way that was sympathetic to what we've been doing here. And fear not, you can undo these changes at any time by using the /2 command line parameter. What this means is synchronise the duplicates and only show single copies of them - your copies. You do this simply by using the /1 command line parameter when loading the assistant. After a while you will end up with a bunch of new presets that are duplicates of presets shipped with the software that you've nicely categorised in your own way.Īt your convenience, and as often as you like, you can use the Arturia Assistant to then hide the stock presets from which you have created duplicates. Its important that the name remains the same. that you want to apply and then save it without changing its name.
For any stock presets you want to categorise in your own way, simply Save As that preset, select the bank, styles etc. So you go about the categorisation of stock presets like this. This is what this Arturia Assistant is all about, hiding that duplication so the preset lists don't become bloated. For many people this is an unnecessary hindrance and bloats an already Herculean list of presets when often all you really want to do is find a sound quickly and without ending up with masses of duplicate presets. This means you can't make any changes to them, even categorising them, without making copies. Unfortunately, there's a problem here in that Arturia prevents you from modifying stock presets shipped with the software without you having to duplicate them first. These things are not something that Arturia does at present, but things you could do if you categorised sound styles for yourself. Or maybe you might have a better hook if sounds were connected with the artist or period that you most strongly associate with that sound, like Numan or Daft Punk, and 70s or 90s for example. then use those sounds in ways that complement each other. For example, one way I think of sound is in terms of material so wood, metal, glass etc. In the long term, you really want to organise these sounds into your own framework of how you yourself understand sound. You might also observe how you understand and interpret sound might not align with how Arturia does, and consequently searching through sounds can be very time consuming. That said, you'll also likely notice how patchy and inaccurate Arturia's categorisation of styles is, at least at the time of writing. So listing presets for each style in turn, and auditioning a good number of presets in each, will certainly help you in that understanding and give you a good head start.
While it's notĬategorisation, it is worth getting to know how Arturia categorises sound styles as it will be of benefit to you if you understand their perspective. Arturia already offers some impressive categorisation of sounds. So now let's dig into the meat of what this is all about.
So I wrote something to try to make all that just a little bit easier in terms of improvements to the categorisation of the presets, and sorting the wheat from the chaff. However, trying to navigate the literally thousands of presets that come with these instruments is just completely overwhelming. All great works in their own right with incredibly impressive audio production. I've been using Arturia's synthesizer software quite a lot recently, including Analog Lab, Mini and Pigments.
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