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V-‐Machine Operating Manual
Figure 4: Bank and Preset structural hierarchy
8.2.2
Banks
Banks are collections of Presets. It is entirely up to you how you prefer to categorize your
sounds. Some users may wish to organise similar types of sounds together in a Bank while
others may wish to create a bank of sounds that are used in a particular performance.
Each Bank can store 127 Preset configurations.
Example 1
-‐ You may prefer to keep your piano Preset sounds in a Bank named “Pianos” and all
your bass Preset sounds in a Bank named “Basses”.
Example 2
-‐ You may prefer to organise Preset sounds into Banks according to a particular
performance. Your performance may be the keyboard part of a song performed by your band
requiring three different Preset sounds. If you store the three Preset sounds together in a Bank
named “Song 1”, you can access them quickly as needed during your performance. Then simply
move to the next Bank (possible Song 2) for the next performance.
Banks can be loaded, saved, and renamed from within the VFX application.
8.2.3
Presets
Presets are your individual performance sounds. They are essentially saved mixer
configuration states. A saved mixer configuration includes all information relating to audio and
MIDI routing, selected plugins, and mixer settings such as channel volumes, pan settings, and
so forth.
Preset sounds can be loaded, saved, and renamed from within the VFX application.
