Vegas Audio 2 - FX and Plug - Where are the user presets saved?

Rhythmystik wrote on 12/13/2001, 9:51 PM

Can someone tell me where the Vegas FX and 3rd party plug-in effects user presets are saved?

I have to move a Vegase Audio 2 project to a new machine and there are several custom user presets that I've saved for both Vegas FX and Waves plug-ins. Obviously I need to move these presets as well as the other files.

Thanks...

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Cheesehole wrote on 12/15/2001, 3:10 AM

it's not easy. you have to find the presets in your registry and export them so you can get them on another pc. there are also sometimes files stored on your hd, which have to be copied as well. search this forum on 'transfer presets'... that should get you to some instructions for VV2. might work for VV3. btw - use them at your own risk. ;)

- ben (cheesehole)

zonk wrote on 12/15/2001, 9:47 PM

Got Forge?

Sound Forge 4.0 (full, not XP) and later versions have a tool called Preset Manager. Lets you create a file that contains all your saved presets and add it to a new installation. Sound Forge 5 also allows you to export and import Preset Packages (i.e. chains of 2 or more DX plug-ins).

Assuming you do not own Sound Forge, screen capture your plug-in window (Alt-Print Screen) paste this into a Graphic Editor, save graphic the file to a folder and back up this folder. To recall the settings, add the graphic file to a Vegas track and use "Video Preview" to look at the settings, add 'em to that plug-in again and save the preset. A cludge, but it works. So Rhythmystik could make a bunch of screen captures of his fave plug-in settings and open these on the new system to re-create the presets. Might be less hassle than digging around in the registry and there's little to go wrong.

There seems to be a movement to make all SF apps deal with plug-in presets the same way, which is laudable. Along these lines, all SF host apps should offer plug-in preset management. Rhytmstik isn't the first one to transfer their Vegas installation to a new system and risk losing their DX presets. I assume Vegas 3 doesn't have preset management :( (I don't have version 3 yet) Submit this suggestion to the SF Feature Request page if you care.

Vegas Project files (in theory) will save the settings of DX plugs in use in that project. Vegas Audio 2 projects lose Sonic Timeworks Delay settings when the project is saved and then recalled. Vegas pops a warning about this when the project is reopened. Nice, but too late to be useful. Screen captures to the rescue, going forward.

happy musiking
zonk

Rhythmystik wrote on 12/18/2001, 12:21 AM

Registry settings? Gak, I was afraid that would be the answer...

I have to say that it's a huge omission that SF haven't come up with a reasonable way to deal with this in Vegas Audio 2. If Vegas Audio 3 doesn't do a better job with this it would inspire me to look very carefully at other products.

Rhythmystik wrote on 12/18/2001, 12:23 AM

Thanks for the tip. I have Sound Forge 4.5 and I'll try the Sound Forge 4.5 preset manager and see how that works for me when I transfer the project. Thanks for the tip.

If it doesn't work than I guess screen capture apporach would be worth a try. Kludge is certainly the right description but of course if it ultimately gets the job done, I guess it will help. Thanks.