Preset Ideas

Right now there's no clear way to save a patch as a Preset. I figured out that you could copy a patch into the Preset folder in the main installation, but that's overly complicated.

It's also unclear what the intended use of the presets is. Are they meant to work as a list of Favorite complete patches (this is what it looks like now) or as a list of little snippets of blocks that the user would otherwise re-patch over and over in many larger patches? Personally, I would use Presets as snippets of code that I tend to always have in my patches (two Mix2 blocks connected to Audio Out).

Here are a few ideas I'm just throwing out there to see what might make the most sense or be the most useful. I really like the Presets but they need a little help. It isn't obvious how great they are until you can create one, and I had to hack the system to figure that out on my own. :-)

Change the "Save As" item to expand into two, similar to how the "Tutorial" menu item is multileveled, and allow "Save As Patch" and "Save As Preset".
Add an item to the Options to allow default location of the Presets similar to the Custom blocks.
Add item to Edit menu so that the user can select a group of blocks/connectors in a patch window, then select Save Selected as Preset. This might allow you to save these as basic text (by using the copy/paste magic code) instead of as full .pbp files.
The Preset menu currently only refreshes when the software initializes. This list needs to be dynamic without the user restarting everything. I should be able to save a new preset and immediately start pulling it down from the menu.

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