Presets
Presets represent all the values in your entire MIDI Designer setup. For example, a knob called “Sweep” might be set to 45° (or an outgoing MIDI value of 32). When you store a preset, that value is saved. When you recall a preset, all controls snap to the value they had at the time the preset was saved. So your sweep knob would snap to 45° regardless or what position it’s in, and that value would be sent out to all hardware/software that is connected.
Presets are available from the main tongue that drops down from “More” for both save and recall. Presets cannot be deleted at this time, but they can be overwritten.
Layouts
Layouts represent the whole of your MIDI Designer layout: all banks, all pages, and all controls. Setups are files that have the extension “mididesigner” so an example would be, “Cannes May 2012 05.mididesigner”. MIDI Designer adds the file extension for you.
Layouts may be saved, loaded, and emailed. Find this functionality under More -> Config -> Actions.
Layouts may also be opened from email. Follow the default instructions in the email which contains the layout.
In addition, you can drag and drop layouts to and from MIDI Designer via iTunes.
Note: layouts contain your presets, so if you open your layouts on another iPad, you will find your presets are also available.
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