Is it possible to see if a loaded Guitar Rig stock preset has been customized?

Common practice in plugin design is to show some kind of visual feedback if a preset has been loaded and then edited in any way. I'm not seeing that in Guitar Rig 7 for stock presets – am I missing something, maybe even some workaround trick to tell?

I regularly need to transfer presets between DAWs, and the procedure is not fun at all when it's a custom one. It'd be ideal if I could tell if it's been customized or not.

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Kymeia

If it's customised it will be in the User Presets section

etudes

Isn't that only if it was manually saved as a user preset? I'm talking about a stock preset that was loaded, edited, but not manually saved.

Kymeia

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/172741#Comment_172741

I see, well you could just save it then. Generally if I have a preset that works for me, even if just a tweaked factory patch, I want to be able to recall it. I assumed that’s what you’d be doing if you wanted to transfer them to another computer

etudes

I appreciate it, but the question is "is it possible to see if a stock preset has been customized?" Saving a new preset won't tell me that.

I'm opening sessions created by other people. This would also be useful when opening my own old sessions. Regarding transferring to another DAW, ideally I could save myself from having to save new presets if there weren't any customizations made.

Anywho, it sounds like the answer is "it's not possible" and there's no workaround, so I guess I'm putting this forward as a feature request here.

Kymeia

I don’t know tbh I’ve never come across the sort of visual feedback you are asking for, can you give an example of a plugin that does this and the form it takes?

Also you stated you regularly need to transfer presets between DAWs but unless you save a version with your tweaks they would revert to the factory setting anyway so I’m struggling to see how anything else would be workable

etudes

Right, I need to transfer presets between DAWs, so if it's a stock preset that hasn't been adjusted, then I just need to load up that preset in the other DAW. No saving a bunch of new presets necessary, which is a hassle.

And sure, here are three examples from various Native Instruments plugins. I loaded up some stock presets, made a tiny adjustment to one of the knobs, and all of these added an asterisk (*) to the preset name to show that it's been edited.

Kymeia

Ah the asterisk, I thought you wanted to be able to see what had been adjusted

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