Loading presets

Plenty of presets are provided with FabFilter Pro-C, giving a good idea of what you can do. You can either use the presets as they are, or tweak them further to create your own unique settings.

To load a preset, click the preset button. The presets menu will appear with all available presets. Click on a menu item to load that preset. The currently selected preset is highlighted with check marks.
To explore the presets one by one, click on the little arrow buttons to the left and right of the main preset button. This will load the previous or next preset in the menu.

The preset button shows the name of the current preset. If you have changed the preset by adjusting one or more knobs, the name is dimmed to show that this is not the original preset.

The Default Setting preset is loaded automatically when FabFilter Pro-C is started. To change the default setting, simply overwrite this preset.

MIDI Program Change and Bank Select

Loading a presets can also be done via MIDI, using Bank Select and Program Change messages. The preset menu contains an item View Bank/Program Numbers. If checked, all preset names are preceded by their bank/program number combination. (For example: (1/10 Clean). This means that you can load the setting by first sending a Bank Select message to select bank 1 and then sending a program change message to select program 10.

Important:

All the presets in your preset folder are numbered automatically, starting with bank 0 and program 0. This way, you are able to access any of the presets via MIDI. However, this also means that when you add new presets to the menu, bank/program numbers of other presets might change. Be aware of this when recording program changes in a song!

Next: Saving presets