I am sure this question must have been asked by now, but a quick search didn’t surface it. Why can’t Factory presets be saved after they are modified? Easy enough to copy them to another preset and do this anyway.
Was this done so that unwitting users would not modify Factory presets in place, not realizing that perhaps Neural is probably not including Factory presets in the backup process. Seems like a reasonable assumption as it would be a total waste of their server storage space. A lot of users would never modify them. Backing them up would result in a ton of redundant, unmodified Factory presets on their servers. Total speculation, just trying to comprehend the reasoning for this.
Just curious, not an issue for me as I don’t tend to use Factory presets anyway, but it does seem like a waste of storage for those who would rather repurpose that space, or at least modify and save Factory presets with minimally, their own requirements for the input and output blocks. Anyway, not a big deal as those presets probably consume minimal space, just rather surprised me when I got my QC.
Good question, probably like you said that the factory presets don’t get backed up as they are part of the firmware. Otherwise, I wish we could use that space for user created presets but as of now and the foreseeable future, they probably won’t change that. It might be so that every user starts on an equal ground for testing and trial and error etc., also makes it easier for support when troubleshooting. It’s a good question!
Once a factory preset is modified (a misnomer in terms because you really can’t save factory presets on any modeler I know of) it’s then saved as a user preset and takes up one user preset slot in user memory. This is done to preserve what you started with before you screwed it up entirely lol…
LOL, if the subtle point you are making is that once you modify a factory preset it is no longer a “factory” but now a “user” preset, I agree. However, factory presets can either be resaved or modified in place on the Helix as well as other devices I have come across. That way you can edit the factory presets to taste or even repurpose those “slots” completely if you wish.
and honestly saving them as new is fine. There’s no shortage of space on the QC at all and it’s easier to remember what you’re doing that way. What WOULD be nice is if we could duplicate downloaded presets as new and save them again, but that’s another issue
Think about when factory presets are updated as a new OS comes out. Your saved presets would be overridden. If that is not the case, we would have to forgo new presets altogether.
no, I get it, every multi effects and synth I ever bot always had factory presets that weren’t user editable, and I was merely commenting, Fractal has two files for firmware, one for the OS and a second for presets, if you didn’t want them you didnt need to program them in. so just saying… now Im in the Neural camp I’m fine with how things are but you know just making a case…
Cheeers
Fractal seems to have a completely different approach though. They tinker with a particular model and then your user presets suddenly sound different after a firmware update.
