Space Designer Lost all Factory presets

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Space Designer Lost all Factory presets

Can anyone figure out how to get the factory presets back into Space Designer? Somehow something got corrupted. I find the factory presets in the library but only (18 Concerts & Halls) shows up in the slide out window on the plug in itself. I have tried trashing preferences, moving all presets out & back in to library, and re-installing Soundtrack Pro onto my hard drive without any success. Space Designer is a great plug-in and the factory presets are great time savers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lost without my Space Designer Factory Presets.

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 6, 2006 9:03 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 22, 2006 4:09 PM in response to gene6

gene6,
Here is the way I get the factory presets for Space Designer.

1) Add Space Designer as an effect to a track.
2) Click on the "advanced..." button to show the cute knobs and sliders.
3) Right-Click on the "IR Sample" triangle located at the top of the big circle on the left side. (If you don't have a two-button mouse, buy one quick.)
4) This menu says "Load IR, Load IR & INIT, or Show in FInder. I pick Load IR.
5) This then goes to the 36 folders of Impulse Responses in the Library so you can pick an .SDIR file like "in the shower" inside bathrooms. Then click Open to load it into Space Designer to try it out on that track.
6) If you like it (or twiddle with it to where you can use it), show the user presets and click the "+" button to add this setting to your list of User Presets for easy retrieval.

I still don't know if there is a place for tutorials in this forum, but this works for me.
Hope it helps.
David

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Answer 2

bogusman

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Mar 7, 2006 10:47 AM in response to gene6

I often wondered why some of the plug ins have presets, and others don't-Space Designer being one of them. As far as I know, they never loaded. Space designer is a bit fiddly, so the lost presets would be a boon. Sorry ,I can't help, but I would be grateful if somebody else could!

Dual G5 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 4 gig ram

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Answer 3

Mar 21, 2006 3:37 AM in response to gene6

> how to get the factory presets back into Space Designer...

Space Designer doesn't come with presets. If you mean impulse response files, then be aware that they're the only files in the Mac OS X file system for which the extension is case-sensitive — so don't change the "SDIR" string to anything else or you won't be able to load them...

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Answer 4

Mar 21, 2006 5:06 AM in response to rockbottom

Actually, Space Designer DOES have a lot of presets (AND IR files) in Soundtrack Pro (over 40 folders of presets show up for me).
Strangely, they are listed under "User Presets" instead of "Factory Presets", but they are there and they work just fine.

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Answer 5

Mar 23, 2006 5:37 AM in response to Simon Paladino

So: now I realize I'm also missing these presets — there's nothing in my user preset folder, so I'm used to merely load the SDIR file I need. Yet there are 760+ Space Designer presets in my Logic folder, but SoundTrack can't load them.

I certainly would spend some time resaving all of those presets — like David Hakan suggested above — if you could tell me what's the benefit of using presets over loading the IR files directly, since that's exactly what 744 presets out of 765 do...

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Answer 6

gene6 Author

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Apr 18, 2006 7:03 PM in response to DavidHakan.com

gene6,
Here is the way I get the factory presets for Space
Designer.

1) Add Space Designer as an effect to a track.
2) Click on the "advanced..." button to show the cute
knobs and sliders.
3) Right-Click on the "IR Sample" triangle located at
the top of the big circle on the left side. (If you
don't have a two-button mouse, buy one quick.)
4) This menu says "Load IR, Load IR & INIT, or Show
in FInder. I pick Load IR.
5) This then goes to the 36 folders of Impulse
Responses in the Library so you can pick an .SDIR
file like "in the shower" inside bathrooms. Then
click Open to load it into Space Designer to try it
out on that track.
6) If you like it (or twiddle with it to where you
can use it), show the user presets and click the "+"
button to add this setting to your list of User
Presets for easy retrieval.

I still don't know if there is a place for tutorials
in this forum, but this works for me.
Hope it helps.
David

Thanks David your a wiz. this totally is the solution I was looking for.
gene6

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Answer 7

Mar 21, 2006 4:50 AM in response to rockbottom

> don't change the "SDIR" string to anything else...

Oops!... My mistake — this is true for Logic 7, but not for SoundTrack.

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