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Unfortunately, Logic does not show which preset was loaded. Most of the presets from Absynth 3 are still there in Absynth 5. It would be nice just to drop in the Absynth 5 plugin and all settings would be taken over, or at least, Logic would show which preset was loaded (even though you lose all tweaks).
You really have to be organised and write this stuff down to the track notes. But people are lazy and I for example tend to change instruments at a later stage all the time until I get the right sound. So I would have to update the track notes constantly, losing the creative flow. It would be nice if Logic would have a rudimentary "auto document" feature where it would just dump down plugin settings in clear text so you could at least try to make sense of it and read the "preset" that was used.
Chris
But until then, make sure you always have a bounced down audio version of your software instruments just in case of situations just like this where an older plugin does not load.
After you do all that backup, copy it to _another_ disk, preferable a portable one. Then store that disk somewhere offsite.
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