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Saving your own playlists and presets - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Saving your own playlists and presets

- [Instructor] Before we dive into the features of all these instruments I just want to quickly go over some basics for how to browse, create and save your own presets and let's dive in. So I'm just going to go to this kind of library books icon here and you'll see that we can access a menu of various presets. These are all the presets that come with the instrument. And then we can access various tags to help us find or tag instruments according to the way they sound. If I click out of the x here we can also filter by these different categories where you can see presets that are just bass, brass, keys, etcetera, pretty straightforward. And then I actually have this preset that I just created for an upcoming live set. Let's check it out. (electronic music) So it's kind of this evolving acid pattern. And if I wanted to save this, if I made some other changes. Let's actually go ahead and do what we just did. I'm just going to bring the filter up a little bit on that. And let's say I want to save it in that position as the default, I can go to the dropdown menu here, click save as and you'll notice I've already created some names but you can fill in the blanks here and add your own names and whatever you want to input in the fields. I've called it Acid Sequence. I changed the author. I put it in the user bank. And then I've labeled it as sequence from the dropdown. If I click on the right you can see we can put it into another one of those dropdown categories for easy access. And then I've tagged it with some of these tags. Acid, dark, evolving and bizarre just cause I think bizarre is a pretty funny tag. And then I've added some comments just about how I'm going to use it in my live set. For example, that I already mini-mapped it to my controller for Ableton just as a little reminder for myself. Cool. So the last thing I wanted to show you, especially relating to live sets. Okay, I do want to say okay cause I'm over-writing my own preset. Last thing I want to show you is that we can create playlists which are really helpful, especially for live sets, just to be able to access a group of presets quickly. And let's go back into our library menu over here. You can see at the very bottom there's a playlist category. And if I bring that up and hit new playlist, I'm going to name this Nate's Live Show. (keyboard clicking) And let's save that. And now that we have that playlist I can search for my presets. There we go, there's my acid sequence. And I can drop that right in. And then maybe I want to look for some others. Maybe even from the factory library. Let's go for bass trip. I don't know what this sounds like. Sometimes I like to take a gamble in my live sets too. Hope it's a good one. And I can drag that in too. And then you get the idea. So in my playlist here I have a number of presets that I can store in there so that I can quickly access them and I can create multiple playlists to use for perhaps a different set the following night.

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