I created numerous custom percussion instruments yesterday, and clicked the Star icon to save as default for other projects. For most of them I had duplicated a similar instrument as my starting point, and they show up in their corresponding family. Take for example these Bell Plates I created:
However, I would like to add it to some previous projects and my orchestral template project. When I load these, it (and many other new custom instruments) will not appear in the instrument picker:
What gives? Then I noticed if I manually re-edit this instrument to add it to a family, now it will appear in the instrument picker as it should in the first screenshot. But obviously I don’t want to have to do that manually with every project (which would defeat the purpose of saving default instruments if you can’t easily access them elsewhere).
I had a look, although I don’t see instruments in the list for library manager. Though also hoping I can get all projects to see the instruments globally since I saved them as default (rather than importing into projects every time).
What is odd is that some instruments I added yesterday, in the same project/session, do show up in these other projects.
Finally had a moment to try importing a flow from the project containing all those new instruments. Unfortunately still not appearing in the Instrument Picker. But, interestingly, any new projects made from any of the factory templates or ‘empty’ actually work fine. It only seems to be these previous projects of mine where they are refusing to show up!
Ok so I think I found the best solution when opening a project where they don’t show up. The instruments exist system wide so it’s not been a question of that – however, the issue I observed is that in other projects they are missing from the “instrument families.”
So then I discovered if I open the instrument families editor window, and click the little reset icon, then everything I am looking for will appear correctly in the instrument picker.
I am not sure if this is a bug or by design (although if so, I am not sure I would follow why users creating instruments and saving as default would not want to find them in other projects!). Either way I am happy I can find and work with my new instruments.
