Most of the bidules have a toolbar in their user interface.
The first button is to bring up the parameter properties dialog, the second
one the parameter locking dialog, the third one is to randomize the parameter
values and the fourth one is to "mutate" (i.e. slightly modify) the parameter
values. Take note that plugins have more items in their toolbar and the
new items comes before the usual one, they are : the list of available presets
for the plugin, a rename preset dialog and load and save presets.
There are two types of presets in Bidule, regular presets are dynamic snapshots (they will always save the
current value of parameters) and read-only preset will always revert to the original value of parameters
when that preset was created
- Rename: renames the current preset
- Add: adds a new preset using the default value of all parameters
- Add N: adds N new presets using the default value of all parameters
- Add Copy: adds a new preset using the current value of all parameters
- Add Copy (read-only): adds a new read-only preset using the current value of all parameters
- Add N Copies: adds N new presets using the current value of all parameters
- Remove: removes the current preset
- Load: opens a previously saved preset bank
- Save: saves current preset bank to a file for later use (if you use the default name for saving and save the file in the presets folder, these presets will always be used when creating a new bidule of that type)
Parameter Properties Dialog
In this dialog, you can set the minimum and maximum value to be used for a
parameter, you can lock the parameter, meaning that the parameter value
will not change on randomize and mutate, as well as the mutation factor.
In this dialog, you have the list of unlocked and locked for randomize/mutate
parameters and you can quickly change their state by double-clicking on the
parameter name.