Locking

In some situations, it may be useful to load only specific parts of a preset while leaving other parts as they are. This can be achieved by using the Mechanism, which can lock particular parameter groups and prevent the contained parameters from being overwritten by a preset recall or sound manipulations. Parameters of locked groups can still be edited, though.

Currently, only whole groups can be locked, but a parameter-specific Lock Mechanism is intended for the future.

Locking a Parameter Group

In the Screen showing the currently selected parameter, the Button provides the lock menu. Individual lock options can be selected by pressing 4 and applied by pressing the Button.

Depending on the lock status of the associated group, the lock options provide locking the specific group/all groups, or unlocking the specific group/all groups. When one or more groups are locked, the lock symbol is also shown in the Screen and Screen.

Locking a Parameter Group

A right click or long touch gesture on a particular group header invokes the lock menu. Depending on the lock status of the associated group, the lock options provide locking the specific group/all groups, or unlocking the specific group/all groups.

When one or more groups are locked, the lock symbol is also shown in the Tab and Tab.

Note that Sources and Amounts are two separate lockable groups. In the , the header of the Hardware Sources and Amounts group shows two separate lock symbols.

Locking - a practical example

Let’s consider a situation where the user wants to use certain groups of preset A as a template for other presets (B, C, ...), which shall have those group settings as well.

Useful scenarios may be the Sources and their Amounts on Controls, or the whole effect chain. In a few steps, the particular groups of preset A can be copied to the other presets:

  1. Load preset A (the template preset).
  2. Activate lock on the desired groups (that shall be transferred to the other presets).
  3. Load preset B (the locked groups still remain as defined by preset A).
  4. Save preset B (making the template transfer persistent).
  5. Load and then save preset C (repeating the process, the locked groups still remain as defined by preset A), et cetera.