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Hi,

I'm hoping for advice from musicians with experience with a number of DAWs and plugins, particularly VSTs.

I've created a VST instrument which includes over 1000 presets. Each preset is a single file which can be dragged and dropped into the UI. Of course, this is not very usable or efficient.

I've been trying to figure out if there's a standard way to handle this problem, but surprisingly I haven't found an obvious one. What I've found is:

a) Most DAWs support the VST "programs" feature, but that's often limited to 127 or 255 programs.
b) Many plugins implement their own preset browser, probably due to the limitations of a)
c) There are FXP / FXB files which are supported by many (but not all DAWs), but these don't really seem to solve the UI issues

With 1000s of presets, I guess a UI that supports folders, searching, and a previous / next mechanism might be good. It seems a shame that this needs to be re-implemented in every plugin though. And since I'm a programmer and not a musician, I'm not really sure what actually works best.

Please let me know what you think!

Just discovered this yesterday, and I'm blown away.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61592

It's a 2-operator FM (actually PM) synth. It's only got 14 parameters. It sounds amazing.

The kicker: the player code is tiny (it's written in x86 assembly). This means you can put together a decent tune with player code in 1-1.5 kb. It was designed for 4 kb intros. Scroll down on the pouet page for a list of examples.

Anyway, it's a very decent synth in its own right, and I'd love to hear what some of the talented folks here could do with it! It's fairly tightly integrated with Renoise, but could be used with other tools.