Manage Presets - 1010music BLACKBOX 1.5 User Manual

Manage Presets

Blackbox stores a set of pad configurations, sequences and song sections as a preset. You can save as many
presets as you want, as long as there is room for the files on your microSD card. When you turn on blackbox, it
automatically loads the most recently used preset on this microSD card. The microSD card that comes with
blackbox has about 60 presets and corresponding WAV files preloaded.
When blackbox loads a preset, it loads the set of WAV files and configured parameters for each pad, sequence
and song section saved in the preset. Review the preloaded presets to see some examples of blackbox features in
action. The presets that are preloaded on blackbox use only a fraction of the WAV files that are available on the
microSD card. You can use the microSD card to load your own WAV files into blackbox, as well as record new ones.
Blackbox also enables you to customize and create your own presets.
Presets are saved on the microSD card when you choose to save them. If you load a different preset without first
saving the current preset, you will lose your work. If you change to a different microSD card, you will have a
different set of presets. When you switch to a different preset, all previous settings will be replaced with the settings
of the newly selected preset, which may be blank.
As of Blackbox 1.5, blackbox now stores all of the preset xml files in subfolders under the \Presets folder. Each preset
has its own subfolder with the name of the preset, and a preset.xml file within that subfolder. E.g. the preset My
Kickin Grooves will be stored as a file named preset.xml in the \Presets\My Kickin Grooves folder. When you first
start working with the preset, it will point to the WAV files in their source folders. The Pack function will copy all of the
used WAV files into the preset folder.
Blackbox 1.5 also changes where new recordings are stored. When you create a new recording, it will be stored in
the folder for that preset. For example, the first new recording for the My Kickin Grooves preset will be saved as
\Presets\My Kickin Grooves\RC000001.wav.
Blackbox will migrate legacy presets to the new file structure as you use them.
In summary:
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All of the preset folders are gathered under one \Presets folder at the root. This helps reduce the clutter at
the root and reduces the number of directories that the system has to scan to find presets.
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Before you Pack a preset file, the .xml file lives in its own subfolder under \Presets which is created as soon
as you create a preset, but the WAV files stay in their source folders until you "pack" them.
• Blackbox will automatically move a legacy preset into the new folder location the first time you load that
preset after upgrading to the 1.5 firmware. You may then use the Pack function to consolidate all of the
files used by the preset into the preset's folder.
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All presets have a file named preset.xml under the folder that has the name of the preset.
We covered how to create a new preset in To Create and Name a Preset above. We will cover more preset and
WAV file management tasks next.
Note:
• Presets are not saved automatically in the background. This ensures that you don't make unintended
changes to a preset.
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