Tools > Show Preferences > Preferences > Data > Startup…set your startup preset
Tools > Show Preferences > Preferences > GUI > Control Behavior…Startup Screen…Startup Browser,
You can set to “Last Used” or other options in each menu…
See those buttons just under the search bar? Kit, Mix, Grv, Key, Auto, Glo? These choose which parts of a preset you’re going to load. Make sure the Kit button is pressed.
Kit → Loads the drum pieces for the preset
Mix → Loads the mixer settings for the preset
Grv → Loads the groove palette for the preset
Key → Loads the keymap for the preset
Auto → Loads the Automation settings for the preset
Glo → Loads Global settings and session preferences for the preset.
If you load a preset with all the buttons pressed in, you get
A kit (collection of drums, this kit, this snare, this hat)
Mixed in a specific way (this plug-in on this channel, that plug-in on the other, this channel lower than the other)
That plays a specific groove when you press play (what groove palette is loaded at the groove page)
That you can play pressing specific assigned kits on your keyboard (Maybe you have 6 toms, maybe you have 4 crashes, these need different keys from the ordinary GM map to play, right?)
That remembers what CCs you have assigned to control and automate stuff with knobs on your hardware controller.
That remembers options in the preferences.
Using the buttons, you can choose what to load when you double click a preset. You can load just the drums, but leave the mix and the groove alone. But the preset is a collection of all these things at once.
For example, i select the pop punk preset. Inside that preset i want to use that preset’s effects with pork pie kit or dw kit. So, inside every preset i Can apply it to different kits?
Load a preset, it will paly with default kit assigned to that preset, then click KITS and select any kit, that kit will load and play with the original presets mix/effects etc, select any kit you like, but if you go back to presets and double click one, it will load that preset with default kit for that preset, then if you don’t like the kit click KITS, and select what ever kit you want to change to.