Unsaved Virtual Instrument Patches

[engybaby]

Hi everyone!

How does pro tools remember 'unsaved' virtual instrument settings?

So if you have called up a virtual instrument - in my case Arturia Analogue Lab 3 collection, then call up a Synth patch, then save my PT session and quit.
Open it the next day and that patch is remembered, yet I didn't save it to any preset folder.


I have had a bit of a crisis with plugins lately - LONG STORY!
And I need to find out where/how an unsaved instrument patch is saved so I can reinstate maybe using Time Machine (MAC)
There are 8000 patches in Arturia collection!

Pro Tools 12 2020.3
Macbook Mid 2012
OSX Sierra 10.12.6

Arturia Analogue Lab 3

Any ideas would be fantastic, thanks
Aengus

[Sardi]

AFAIK it’s just saved within the session. Much the same as changing parameters on an EQ plugin and reopening the session, everything is as it was.

I don’t think you’ll find many people saving settings in their plugins in sessions unless they plan on using them again on another project.


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[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by Sardi

AFAIK it’s just saved within the session. Much the same as changing parameters on an EQ plugin and reopening the session, everything is as it was.

I don’t think you’ll find many people saving settings in their plugins in sessions unless they plan on using them again on another project.


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Pretty accurate. All saved patches are just starting points, usually. I always edit to suit the project I'm working on, even if its one of my very own patches. I do a lot of designing my own patches for several of the VI's. But they always get edited in a session, regardless.