How do you deal with synths that have no favorite options?

Johanso

There are some devs that their products have absolutely no favorite options like Harry gohs got some incredible synths but there's no way to remember which ones were my favorite, or Moog model d has great presets but I need to memorize the name, meanwhile synthmaster or imaninando products are so easy just click on star next to presets. What's your solution?

0tolerance4silence

You could use the preset system of your host.

Johanso

@0tolerance4silence said:
You could use the preset system of your host.

How's that works? I think that's only in Aum no?

timfromtheborder

Save your favourites as user presets if possible. I often do this anyway — renaming “Sparkle Motion” to “PAD - mod wheel shimmer” to make things easier to find. Otherwise, host preset management which a lot of hosts support.

unlink

@Johanso said:

@0tolerance4silence said:
You could use the preset system of your host.

How's that works? I think that's only in Aum no?

Most of the DAWs have an internal preset system (Cubasis and Logic have one too for example).

Squishy

@timfromtheborder said:
Save your favourites as user presets if possible. I often do this anyway — renaming “Sparkle Motion” to “PAD - mod wheel shimmer” to make things easier to find. Otherwise, host preset management which a lot of hosts support.

This! If I like a preset, I’ll tweak the littlest thing (most are fine, but some apps are picky and make you change something in the factory preset in order to save it as user so this just became a habit) and save it under user, usually with a new name (almost always something silly and stupid) that helps me remember it

Ben

@Johanso said:
There are some devs that their products have absolutely no favorite options like Harry gohs got some incredible synths but there's no way to remember which ones were my favorite, or Moog model d has great presets but I need to memorize the name, meanwhile synthmaster or imaninando products are so easy just click on star next to presets. What's your solution?

Harry has remarked before that he would consider and/or is planning to add a save as favorite function.
That would be so helpful.
Maybe we should inundate him with requests.😁 @VirSyn?

johnfromberkeley

@timfromtheborder said:
Save your favourites as user presets if possible. I often do this anyway — renaming “Sparkle Motion” to “PAD - mod wheel shimmer” to make things easier to find. Otherwise, host preset management which a lot of hosts support.

Not only that, but I put an emoji star ⭐️ in front of favorite user presets.

Unfortunately my experience is that you cannot search for emoji in many apps that have a search function. I’m not sure if this is a general limitation of system software or programming.