Backing up a session

[Treva]

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by Treva

What about all plugins in there, do I have to create presets to all of them or when I backup a session, all settings I used remain?
If I can remember sometime ago I read somewhere about a guy who made a backup but when he opened it in another computer, all plugins were reset.
I don't know if that's true or not or if he did something wrong.
Does it work the same way in daws like pro tools and cubase?

no you don't. All plugin data is saved with the session. How many times do you save a plugin's setting as a preset anyway?

[Treva]

Originally Posted by psycho_monkey

no you don't. All plugin data is saved with the session. How many times do you save a plugin's setting as a preset anyway?

I have all my guitar/bass plugins settings saved as presets, more than a hundred.
When I want an expecific tone, I just recall those presets.
I have presets for drums and bass too.
The majority are about amps vsts, equalizers and cab simulators.
I have about 20 presets of weird effects with chorus/flanger/phaser.
I'm not only a recording guy, I'm also a musician who compose my own songs so presets are a must.
When working as a recorder, I keep recording different bands with different tones so I don't care about presets but with my own stuff I need them.

I spoke to a friend of mine and he remembered that case, it happened with pro tools, guy backed up a session and took it to his house, when opened it, all plugins settings reset and as he didn't save presets, if that session was still in the studio computer, he just had to go there and save presets and did a new backup but I don't know how that ended up or if he did something wrong.

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by Treva

I have all my guitar/bass plugins settings saved as presets, more than a hundred.
When I want an expecific tone, I just recall those presets.
I have presets for drums and bass too.
The majority are about amps vsts, equalizers and cab simulators.
I have about 20 presets of weird effects with chorus/flanger/phaser.
I'm not only a recording guy, I'm also a musician who compose my own songs so presets are a must.
When working as a recorder, I keep recording different bands with different tones so I don't care about presets but with my own stuff I need them.

I spoke to a friend of mine and he remembered that case, it happened with pro tools, guy backed up a session and took it to his house, when opened it, all plugins settings reset and as he didn't save presets, if that session was still in the studio computer, he just had to go there and save presets and did a new backup but I don't know how that ended up or if he did something wrong.

OK slightly different in some ways.

If you open a session, load some plugins, select some presets (or just change some settings), then save your session and take it to a new rig:

- the session will open exactly as is - no changes to plugin settings - unless something has gone seriously wrong.

- you WON'T have any access to your other presets, since those are unique to your rig. To copy those, you'd need to go to the application support folder, copy the relevant folder for your app, then on the destination machine back up their preset folder, replace it with yours temporarily, then set it back when you're done.

Presets, and settings of plugins within a session, are 2 different things.