Saving tracks as presets?

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I’ve been wondering: is there a way to save a track as a preset (e.g. the track being a drum/poly track, with a given midi channel/note mapping and a given instrument definition, maybe with MIDI effects too)?

I’m pretty sure there is no way to do that directly within the Hapax, but maybe it is possible through instrument definitions somehow?

I often need different mappings for different gear, and for now the best i found is to have an “utilities” project containing examples of all the kinds of tracks i usually use, and just copying the ones I need on the spot, but it’s kinda annoying because i basically cannot use the second project for its intended purposes.

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one-track template?

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not sure what do you mean. i mean, yeah the idea would be to be able to save track templates just as we are able to save instrument definitions. For now i have a default project with my 16 premade tracks, however it would be cool to be able to go “oh wait i actually want to plug in that other machine” and being able to immediately load the right template for it without having to set it up

I’m thinking about my tonverk for instance, i have a drum preset that has been created as a multitrack instrument (to be able to handle multiple levels of velocity), every time i want to use that preset instead of my “regular” drums usually handled by a digitakt, i need to manually map drum lanes to midi notes (or having that template saved in another project, and pull it from there)

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Parameters like Track type and Note mapping are already saved in the Instrument Definition:

VERSION 1 # Currently, this should only be 1.

# Can be POLY, DRUM, MPE, or NULL
TYPE NULL

and


# DRUMLANES

# Syntax: ROW:TRIG:CHAN:NOTENUMBER NAME

# ROW must be between 1 and 8

# TRIG can be between 0 and 127, or NULL

# CHAN can be a number between 1 and 16, Gx, CVx, CVGx (x between 1 and 4), or NULL

# NOTENUMBER can be between 0 and 127, or NULL

# NAME supports all alphanumeric ASCII, and ' ', '\_', '-', '+' - can also be NULL

# Please note this section will be discarded for tracks which are not DRUM tracks

\[DRUMLANES\]
\[/DRUMLANES\]

I don’t think there’s an option for velocity or effects.

As a workaround you could save the config as a template, load that template in Project B, and then copy/paste them to Project A.