I did that - created a default project screen & saved it in my new audio folder - its just kind of a pain to always have to go back to that folder since SFV will automatically go to the last folder from which a file was opened when you hit "open".

Guess I'll have to live w/it.

JL

I just thought of another one:

Whenever you open a new project (via the 'New' menu) or add a new track to an existing project, the (new) track(s) always have the Track Noise Gate, Track EQ and Track Compressor plug-ins already installed in the chainer. I know they are defaulted in the "off" mode, but I almost always nuke them off the track anyway. I would rather call up a plug-in for a track if I need one.

One thing that would be cool is if you could configure your signal flow to route thru a track-based plug-in on the way INTO the track - as you are recording (as you would do using outboard gear, patch bay & multitrack machine) - instead of after-the-fact style.

JL
OTR

Hi ...

You can remove the insert plugins by default, and even set the defaults yourself, albeit with a little custom-editing.

Press and hold the SHIFT key, and click on "Options | Preferences". On the far right, there's now an "Internal" tab. Go to the field name "Insert Effect 1", and delete the values for the Insert FX. Click apply and then "OK". Now it defaults to no plugins on the tracks.

You can also set your OWN default plugins, but this involves going into Regedit and copying the registry keys individually to the "Value" fields, which is not advisable unless you know what you're doing.

Hope that helps!

(stu.macQ)

hey give the general public a little credit!

i hope no one starts censoring their posts based on a personal assumption of the intelligence of their potential readers. :
thanks for the tip stumacQ. if you wouldn't mind posting details on where to find those values, i'm sure a lot of people would find that to be useful info. i looked under the Sonic Foundry branch, but didn't find anything obvious.

- ben (cheesehole)

I think what GG was saying is that there is a way to do this as a "feature" in VV3 without having to tinker with the somewhat risky Internal Prefs.

StumacQ -
Thanks for the tip. Did what you said & found the 'Internal' tab. Do you know if I set "Open Sound Forge in Direct Mode" to TRUE, will that mean that I can process a Vegas event in SF & then go back to Vegas and be able to hear the change without having to save it first? That sure would make it easier to tweak things.

There sure are alot of interesting settings to play with on that tab.

I did also find the insert effect items. Obviously, I will have to write down the values before I nuke them. The default is there, but its much too long to see & you can't scroll it.

BTW - All I have for default settings upon right clicking on a track header is 'Set As Default Track Height'.

JL
OTR

Hmm ...

Well ... I didn't expect a backlash from the user base. I'm just trying to help people out. Personally, I think the "Internal" menu shouldn't be hidden, but I guess that it's "too dangerous" for John Q. Public to be able to mess with the internal settings. I'm sure Sonic Foundry is indemnified from all liabilities via the licensing agreement, so I don't see what the problem is. It's fixed in Vegas 3.0 from what I gather anyway, so it's not really going to be a ground-breaking and controversial software hack for very many people.

In Vegas 2.0h I found the settings like this:

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*** DISCLAIMER ***

Don't try this unless you've done stuff like this before! You could potentially make your entire system inoperable if you edit the registry AT ALL. For this reason, after every registry viewing session, you should press CANCEL or NO wherever applicable.

1. Go to "Start | Run" and type "Regedit"
2. Go to:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ActiveMoviedevenum\{083863F1-70DE-11D0-BD40-00A0C911CE86}"

3. Now ... if you scroll through the keys below that, you should see a "FriendlyName" in the actual edit pane on the right side of the screen.
4. Find whatever plugin(s) you'd like to use, and copy the name of the key to the clip board (that really long and unwieldly number/letter combination).
5. Paste that into NotePad and remove everything except the {BLAH-BLAH-BLAH}. Keep the brackets.
6. Copy that into the value field for the "Insert Effect 1".
7. Done. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for the others if you'd like.
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I put Waves AudioTrack in "Insert Effect 1", and nothing in the others. It works for me just great!

Good luck, and don't do anything stupid!

(stu.macQ)

Oh ... and finally:

I'm glad that Sonic Foundry added a "Track Defaults" in VV3. It makes things a lot easier for everyone, and you can still get support for the product!

Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes ... but I didn't discover this "Internal" menu by accident; I read a SF employee's post and gleaned the information from there. Please don't shoot the messenger! ;-)

(stu.macQ)

Messing with internal prefs is at your own risk. If you get stuck, you can hold down ctrl+shift during Vegas startup and all default prefs will be restored.