Manage presets

Peter 06May15: This is a work in progress - I don't plan to replicate this detail on the page for every effect, generator and analyzer that has "Manage" capability as that would overburden those pages and cause a lot of duplication that would be tedious to manage and update in the future. Instead I plan to put a brief bit about management of presets on each page with a link to this page for the details.

ToDo-2 Even though this is a WIP draft, please feel free to mercilessly edit.

Most effects, generators and analyzers in Audacity have a Manage button in their dialog. Clicking on this gives a dropdown menu enabling you to manage presets for the tool and to see some detail about the tool.

Accessed by: Pressing the Manage button at the bottom left of effects, generators and analyzers

Example of the Normalize effect showing the "Manage" dropdown menu

User Presets

Enables you to retrieve a set of parameter presets that you have created earlier in Audacity. Clicking on this item will display a dropdown menu of your saved effects enabling you to pick one of them.

In this example this option is grayed out as no user presets have been saved.

Factory Presets

Return the tool to its default parameter settings.

Delete Preset

Delete any user preset that you may previously have saved.

In this example this option is grayed out as no user presets have been saved.

Save As...

After you have made adjustments to the settings for the tool you may wish to save these settings for later use. This option enables you to do that enabling you to choose a name for your user presets.

Note that you cannot overwrite an existing user preset, if you wish to re-use the preset you must first delete it and then save the new settings.

Import

I've no idea what this is supposed to do.

Export

I've no idea what this is supposed to do either.

Options

Some tools have optional settings than can be managed by selecting this. If there are no options available, as in this Normalize example, then this menu item will be grayed out.

About

Selecting the "About" from the "Manage" dropdown menu will display a dialog giving information about the tool.

Example of the Normalize effect showing the "About" dialog

The sub-menu items:

• Type: Indicates whether the tool is a native Audacity one (as the Normalize example is) or a Nyquist or LADSPA plugin.
• Name: Is the name of the effect, generator or analyzer.
• Version: If available this shows the software version of the tool.
• Vendor: Shows who has proved the tool.
• Description: A brief description of the tool and what it does.