SM Pro Audio V-Machines - Manual (Page 76)

V-­‐Machine
Operating
Manual
Page
76
of
88
SM
Pro
Audio
Figure
34
Cloning
a
preset.
Special
Note:
Preset
files
are
stored
in
the
.vfx
file
format.
This
file
will
be
found
by
following
a
file
path
that
looks
something
like
this:
Users
>
Libraries
>
Music
>
My
Music
>
VFX
Library.vfxlibrary
>
banks
>
000_Bank
Name.vfxbank
>
000_Preset
Name.vfxpreset
>
preset.vfx
If
you
are
interested,
you
can
open
this
Preset
file
in
a
text
editor
like
WordPad
to
see
how
the
Preset
file
is
put
together.
Understanding
the
Preset
file
format
might
be
useful
in
situations
where
you
do
not
have
access
to
a
computer
with
the
VFX
Application
installed,
but
need
to
edit
a
Preset
manually.
However,
most
of
the
parameters
that
you
might
want
to
edit
here
can
also
be
edited
from
the
front
panel
of
the
V-­‐Machine,
so
there
will
seldom
be
any
need
for
you
to
do
this.
5.11 Synchronization
or
Export
of
the
Active
VFX
Library
Synchronization
and
exporting
are
both
ways
of
transferring
Banks,
Presets,
and
Plugins
prepared
in
the
VFX
Application
on
your
computer
to
the
V-­‐Machine
for
music
performance.
The
difference
between
synchronization
and
exporting
is
this:
When
you
synchronize
the
VFX
Application
with
the
V-­‐Machine,
all
of
the
data
in
a
Library
is
transferred
directly
into
the
V-­‐
Machine’s
Flash
(long-­‐term,
non-­‐volatile)
memory
over
a
USB
cable.
When
you
export
a
Library,
it
is
stored
on
external
media,
such
as
a
hard
drive
or
USB
memory
stick.
After
the
Library
has
been
exported,
you
can
disconnect
the
external
drive
or
memory
stick
from
your
computer
and
plug
it
into
the
V-­‐Machine.
Exporting
and
synchronizing
are
similar
—
but
when
you
need
to
load
new
plugins
into
the
V-­‐
Machine,
exporting
is
faster,
because
transmitting
large
amounts
of
data
over
a
USB
connection
to
the
V-­‐Machine
is
slow.
In
addition,
you
can
export
Libraries
that
are
many
gigabytes
in
size,
larger
than
the
total
available
memory
of
the
V-­‐Machine.
When
you
synchronize,
the
Library
can
be
no
larger
than
the
amount
of
memory
in
your
V-­‐Machine.
For
both
reasons,
you
should
most
often
export
rather
than
synchronizing.
Synchronization
can
be
useful,
however,
if
you
have
no
external
hard
drive
or
USB
memory
available
for
exporting.
Exporting
is
also
useful
because
you
can
export
a
different
Library
to
each
of
several
different
hard
drives
or
memory
sticks.
You
can
then
“hot-­‐swap”
onstage,
detaching
one
Library
and