Plugin Development Best Practices (From A User's Perspective)

[nBeat]

Preset Management
1. Allow users to save their own custom default preset
2. Have a built-in preset manager
3. Users should be able to add as many presets or subfolders/banks as they please
4. Users should be able to mark presets as favorites
5. Users should be able to put presets in categories
6. Users should be able to filter on favorite presets and categories
7. XML format should be used for easy copy/pasting/archiving/sharing of presets

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8. Allow the user to configure the path to the Presets folder

Great thread!

[paterpeter]

Preset Management
7. XML format should be used for easy copy/pasting/archiving/sharing of presets

It doesn't have to be XML, though. Any text format is fine IMO, eg JSON or something different.