Reference Manual

224 Working with Instruments and Effects
Default Presets
Presets saved to the Defaults folders in your User Library will load in place of Live’s generic de-
vice settings. There are also Defaults folders that allow you to customize how Live responds to
various user actions, such as sample dropping, slicing, and converting audio to MIDI. You can
even create default presets for newly-created MIDI and audio tracks, so that they will load with
devices already in place.
The Default Presets folders in the User Library.
To save the current settings of a device as a default preset, open the [right-click](PC) / [CTRL-
click](Mac) context menu on the device’s header and select “Save as Default Preset.“ This works
for all of Live’s instruments, MIDI effects and audio effects (including the various types of Racks
(page 237)). If you have already saved a default preset for a particular device, Live will ask
you before overwriting it.
To create default presets for MIDI and audio tracks:
•Load the device(s) you would like as default onto a track (or no devices, if you would like
your default track to be empty)
•Adjust the device parameters as you like
•Open the [right-click](PC) / [CTRL-click](Mac) context menu on the track header and se-
lect “Save as Default [Audio/MIDI] Track”
To specify how Live behaves when dragging a sample to a Drum Rack or the Device View of a
MIDI track: