In the Audacity effects, the Manage User Presets is no longer working.
I have saved all my favourite presets in EQ, Compressor and Limiter. However, now, when I open my presets in the user presets menu, nothing changes.
It was all working fine until I loaded a VST plug suite this morning called ERA by Accusonus (which I have now deleted). I’m not sure if the two events are related or not.
Has anyone else encountered their User Presets disappearing?
The Audacity plugin settings are stored in a document called “pluginsettings.cfg”.
If you delete that they’re gone, and a new empty version will be created.
Now the good news: there could be a backup of the EQ curves, see …
Thank you for your help. I did as you suggested today. The user presets all seem to be working fine now.
However, the problem persists only in the equalizer effect. My user presets make absolutely no difference to my recording. I deleted them and recreated them, but no change.
I even went into Roaming/Audacity and deleted the EQ curves files. It didn’t make any difference.
I hope this makes sense. Am I the only user to experience this?
Thanks so much for your help. Audacity is my go-to audio editor, and I do a lot of editing.
The “EQBackup” file doesn’t kick-in automatically :
you have to make a copy of “EQBackup” [in Roaming/Audacity] and rename that copy “EQcurves” …
[ BTW rather than delete files, rename them instead, e.g. add “-old” to their name,
then you have the option of reinstating by renaming the file with its original name.
If you delete a file it’s usually gone forever ].
