I do not like at all the way in which VSTi parameters are stored for projects which use the Default VSTi.

For example: Create a MIDI BIAB project that uses SampleTank 4 from IK Multimedia as the default VSTi/DXi. For each track choose an instrument from the vast library. Bass is on MIDI channel 2 by default, so choose a bass instrument for channel 2 in SampleTank 4. Continue for other tracks.

Save the project. I usually use Save/Special with Patches and Harmony.

Create another new MIDI BIAB project that also uses SampleTank 4. Note that the instruments from the previous project are assigned to the same channels as before, so again, for each track, assign an intrument. Be sure to have at least one instrument different from the previous project. Save this project.

Now open the previous project.

Note that the instruments are those from the second, most recent project, not the first one.

The parameters for the VSTi are not being stored with the project as they are with Samplitude (Cubase, Mixcraft, Reaper, etc.). Instead, the parameters are being stored with the settings for the "Default VSTi," in other words with the BIAB application.

Please change this as soon as possible so that the (Default) VSTi of choice and the related VSTi parameters are stored with the project. I would suggest that, when a project is loaded, posting a warning that the Default VSTi is going to be changed because the Default VSTi/DXi now needs to be changed through an Option choice, so long-term users won't be expecting a change.

The way the Default VSTi works now is a huge inconvenience for users who use a complex VSTi.

To mimic the preferred situation, users can, for example, save the VSTi parameters *inside the VSTi* as a preset for a particular project, then load both the project and the project-related preset *inside the VSTi*, but only if they remembered to save a preset *inside the VSTi* for every project. If they didn't do that, they not only have to try and recall from memory all of the instruments and which track was which, but the also have to recall all of the tweaks that they did when they set the instruments up. For a complex VSTi like SampleTank 4, this may include all of the potentially dozens of settings of the various FX that were used for each instrument, plus any Master FX and the related settings. They also have to remember to change the Default VSTi if they use various ones.