Operation Manual

38 Presets and MIDI maps

5.3 Editing and Saving Presets

Moving the different controls on the Strum Session interface modiﬁes the preset loaded in the

current program. As soon as the current program is modiﬁed, the preset icon located on the left of

the program name in the toolbar changes color and a ‘*” sign is appended to its name in the program

list. In this state, the preset loaded in the current program is different from its original version stored

in the preset library even if they share the same name. If you wish to keep a permanent copy of the

modiﬁcations, you must save this new version in the preset library.

• To save the new version in the preset library, use the Save Preset command from the File

menu or the Ctrl-S/Apple-S shortcut. Be careful, however, as using this command will over-

write the original preset. If you are not certain of which preset will be overwritten in the

library, ﬁrst use the Locate Program in Browser command from the Programs menu or the

Ctrl-L/Apple-L shortcut in order to locate it in the browser.

• To create a new preset, use the Save Preset As command from the File menu. A window will

appear asking for a name for the new preset. Once the preset is saved using this command, a

new preset icon will appear in the browser directly under the Library folder.

• To create a new preset, it is also possible to rename the program using the Rename Current

Program from the MIDI menu (or the Ctrl-R/Apple-R keyboard shortcut) and use the Save

Preset or Save Preset As commands.

When editing presets, it is very helpful to go back and forth between the different stages of your

modiﬁcations and adjustments. To move back step by step through every modiﬁcation that was ap-

plied to a preset, use the Undo command from the Edit menu or the Ctrl-Z/Apple-Z shortcut. Once

the Undo command has been used, it is also possible to move up again through the modiﬁcations

by using the Redo command from the Edit menu or the Ctrl-Y/Apple-Y command. The number

of Undo levels is unlimited and this command is effective on any control of the interface but not

on the different Save commands.

Once a preset has been modiﬁed, it is also possible to move back and forth between the current

state of the preset in the program list and its original version archived in the preset library. To

hear the original preset, simply click on the Compare button at the top of the interface or use the

Compare command from the Edit menu. Once this button has been pressed, the original settings

of the preset are loaded. In this mode, the graphical interface is frozen and it is therefore not

possible to modify the preset. To further modify the preset, click on the Compare button again or

uncheck the Compare command in the Edit menu to revert to the modiﬁed version of the preset and

unfreeze the interface. To reload the original version, use the Locate Preset in Browser command

from the View menu, or the Ctrl-L/Apple-L shortcut and double click on its icon in order to reload

this version into the current program.

Strum Session will make sure that you do not loose modiﬁcations to a preset. In the case where

a program holds a modiﬁed version of a preset and when trying to load a new preset from the library

into this program, the application will ask you if you want to save the modiﬁed preset in the library.