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How do I reset FabFilter global plugin settings to their defaults?
Hi,
Where do the FabFilter plugins store their global settings, and most importantly, how do I reset them to their defaults? (I am on a Mac and I use Logic.)
For example: the Pro-Q2 window size (small, medium, large), the analyzer setting (pre, post, pre+post), the display range (30, 12, 6, 3dB), etc. Basically all of the settings that are outside of the presets.
These settings seem to persist once they are set; for example when I set the window to large, all new instances of the plugin that I create are also large. This persistence happens across sessions and even reboots.
I want to reset all of these to their original defaults. How can I do this?
Thanks.
Fred
Uncle Freddie — Sep 17, 2018
Hi,
You're right, the settings you describe persist once they are set; the idea behind this, is that when you choose a certain interface size, we expect that that's the size you'd like future instances to have as well...
There's no option to globally reset these settings.
Thanks. Is there nothing I can do to reset this?
Will clearing the plugin cache of the DAW, as described here, reset it? www.arturia.com/faq/utilization/how-do-i-clear-my-audio-unit-cache
Will uninstalling my FabFilter plugin and re-installing it reset it?
You can just set them to the default values: 12 dB for display range, medium analyzer size, etc. Or... just set them to how you like them!
Cheers,
Thank you.
Is there any way to speed up the response to the click? its quite slow and slows me down.
This is really slowing me down as well..
i use different sizes for different purposes on different screens and for some reason the settings do not get updated as i open another instance and change size etc...
instead the settings get stuck on the ones of the first instance i chose on the session - and frustratingly keeps to those settings as a default no matter how often i open a new instance of proQ3 and change them to where i need them to be..
whilst i understand how this, in principle, increases efficiency, for me it has the adverse effect and makes me less efficient...
Feels a bit like when Windows 'helps' the user...
Having said all this ProQ3 is the best EQ there is my goto baby i would never want to do without again.
though this could really be solved by letting the user choose between initial settings to follow the algorithm or to choose manually, so you might as well x