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Posted by cryophonik on Jan-08-2011 00:08:

BigTick Zen Preset Manager

Is anybody here using this? It's a free plugin (PC & Mac) for managing, loading, categorizing, etc. the presets in most soft synths. I downloaded it a few weeks, but haven't had much chance to use it. Anyway, my limited experience with it was pretty positive and I thought I'd share since I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned here. Also, it looks like BigTick just released version 1.4 today.

http://www.bigtickaudio.com/zen/about-zen

Posted by Beatflux on Jan-08-2011 21:18:

Kind of cool. What I would love to see is a preset manager that organizes presets based upon sonic similarities.

Posted by cryophonik on Jan-09-2011 01:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Beatflux
Kind of cool. What I would love to see is a preset manager that organizes presets based upon sonic similarities.

How do you mean? Zen has tags for both instrument category and timbre.

Posted by chrisspob on Jan-09-2011 02:33:

sounds nice but i dont see it taking off ! i have a folder wich i save my ideas to including samples and melodys!

Posted by Raphie on Jan-09-2011 08:11:

I use Cubase MediaBay, it's fully intergrated in the inspector and all synths, even make track presets with it now, fully armed track with all tweaked fx and synth with the right patch in seconds..

Posted by Beatflux on Jan-09-2011 14:27:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
How do you mean? Zen has tags for both instrument category and timbre.

I was thinking more a long the lines that it would analyze each patch for things like: ADSR, timbre, transient, FX. So that you could more easily navigate patches via how they sound.

It would be like Synplant, except for all of the plug-ins you have and it would be cross plug-in.