Additionally, a lot of applications let you make various setting changes and then save them as templates. It would really be nice to have a list of both PGMusic created and user created templates from which to choose. That way, I could have ballad template laid out a certain way, maybe even with my style filters already prepopulated so I start out seeing styles appropriate to ballads, perhaps already loaded with a default style name to get started, with the standard frame of the song already mapped out (for example, a 16 bar chorus, followed by a 16 bar verse, another 16 bar chorus followed by a 16 bar verse, then an 8 bar bar bridge, then another 16 bar chorus ane verse, then into the ending. Tempo set to 90; key of Am; melody, soloist, and thru already set to standard instruments; frequently used VSTi's or even VST's already loaded into the appropriate slots; etc.

This is different than saving songs with these settings to use as templates, because if you use a song, then make changes, then go to save those changes, it doesn't view it anymore as a "first time save" and can overwrite your template. There should be an explicit "save as template" and "load template" command.

I'm sure users would be happy to chime in on the things that should be able to be saved as a template.

Just a thought, and it gives you more than just a single default starting point.

John

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