Jimmy Hellfire
Senior Member
Past a certain point, templates become a gargantuan hassle hardly worth the time required to build and constantly maintain it, it's ridiculous. If I wanted to make a large template containing all the stuff I use, that would require time I could use to finish a few pieces. And then I'd still have to constantly go back to it and fiddle around because I decided to change something or because I need to add new stuff to it. I also don't want to deal with the stupidly large file sizes for every little session I might record.
I've moved away from templates and mainly use track presets. It's simpler, more flexible and actually faster for me. The track preset contains my personal configurations of articulations, keyswitches atc., and comes with the respective expression map loaded. What more would I need?
The only things I do have (small) templates for is stuff where there's additional configuration involved that cannot be saved in a track preset. For example Dimension Strings and Brass, which I need to host inside Vienna Ensemble, with the full ensembles, divided desks and single performers, spread to different outputs etc. So I have pre-configured templates for this stuff - to which I can again add any other stuff I have via track presets on the fly.
I've moved away from templates and mainly use track presets. It's simpler, more flexible and actually faster for me. The track preset contains my personal configurations of articulations, keyswitches atc., and comes with the respective expression map loaded. What more would I need?
The only things I do have (small) templates for is stuff where there's additional configuration involved that cannot be saved in a track preset. For example Dimension Strings and Brass, which I need to host inside Vienna Ensemble, with the full ensembles, divided desks and single performers, spread to different outputs etc. So I have pre-configured templates for this stuff - to which I can again add any other stuff I have via track presets on the fly.