• We’re rather pleased to announce that we’ve had a little rethink of how our future plugins and installers handle file paths and we’ve decided to add portability to our future releases. We made this decision based on a couple of prevalent issues.

    Firstly, the amount of headaches caused by catering for multiple versions of Windows was a major PITA . Secondly, we think the idea behind portable apps is awesome.

    What does this mean to you?

    This means you can install our plugins to whatever location you want, the installation will handle everything and make sure you’ve got a centralized preset folder stored in your chosen location. If you wanted to, there’s nothing stopping you installing all our future releases (including Head Case) on a USB drive/portable HDD and taking your AcmeBarGig collection, presets and all, wherever you wish. This becomes even more awesome if you’re also using a DAW you can install to a portable device.

    It also means—and this is something we’re rather excited about—that, where possible, our plugins can share presets. As long as you’re using this centralized preset location, any plugins that have similar parameters can share presets. For example, Filter Cabs and Mimic—our two upcoming cabinet suites—can load each others’ presets, applying the stored parameters to any relevant controls.

    So Filter Cabs could load a Mimic preset and—given that both plugins support our Tonal Correction technology—adopt the Tonal Correction settings from the saved Mimic preset. The vastly improved Mimic and Filter Cabs will also be finding their way into Head Case, alongside iFace. All of these VSTs will be able to share presets, ignoring any parameters that are unique to the original VST. We call this Intelligent Preset Handling. Because we think it’s pretty friggin’ clever.

    Of course this is optional and you can completely keep all these apps separate if you wish.

    We’re certain this is going to make the development process run a lot smoother for future releases and we can focus on the things that matter; the sound, features and performance of our VST plugins.