HELP: Amplitube Preset Browser is extremely lacking

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HELP: Amplitube Preset Browser is extremely lacking

Postby rwyler » Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:41 pm

The preset browser has two major gaps that could be easily fixed enhancing the overall usability making it easier to quickly find the sound you're looking for.

1. The Amplitube Preset Browser is missing tags such as artist, song, album, or any custom tags from the "TAGS" selection area. The "TAGS" selection area should show ALL defined tags in the saved presets. The Preset Browser "Refresh" should index all the tags in all the presets and alow the ability to filter leveraging any tag specified within the presets. This is a MAJOR problem making it incredibly difficult to quickly browse through the various presets. Enabling this would allow for users to even use their own tags and be able to quickly find them.

2. The Preset Browser viewer ONLY displays the "NAME" of the Preset and no other tags associated with the preset. This is nearly useless because the user should be able to include additional tag columns to be displayed within the preset browser displaying for example "Artist" and "Album" like the view in "Tonenet". The user should be able to add/remove the tag columns to display within the preset browser. I understand that might be a significant effort to chance how that works. An Easy "in-between" solution could be to add an additional setting option to "display album and song tags in preset browser". As an interum until you update the ability for users to add/remove column tags which they would like to see in the preset browser, this would be a good in-between solution to at least show the same columns as shown in the "Tonenet" view. Without this similar named presets are hard to distiniguish between the two.

Both of these options are extremely critical to make amplitube much easier to navigate and use in 'real-world' scenarios in a studio setting or production scenario. The preset browser is incredibly difficult to use as it is today without these two options.

These two additional features is extremely critical especially during a production session where time is money, and client or other musicians are in the room which adds to the pressure to move quickly. Fumbling around switching between random presets can waste a lot of time and comes off amature. Setting up a new chain "in the momement" isn't desired either because the entire point of presets and tags is so that when "in the moment" a user can quickly flip between the various set tags on the presets and dial in quickly to the sound they want, at least a starting point.
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Re: HELP: Amplitube Preset Browser is extremely lacking

Postby DDContact » Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:54 am

Any update on how / if you can add or organize TAGS in Presets?

Amplitube dashboard only 6 Tags under "Sound Character" to choose from. There are other tags (i.e. Thin) that are already labelled in a preset (in the edit area). Why are these some tags not available under "Sound Character" tags in man dashboard? Seems that if a tag in the IK preset is different than the tags in "Sound Character" dashboard they are listed as "- Other" (one of the 6 tags available in main dashboard)? Why not the actual tag in the preset?

Adding / managing tags should be an easy and must have feature in Amplitube.
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