Preset Library

The Library is where all your presets live: factory presets, your own saved patches, Hub downloads, and anything shared with you. It's accessible from the left sidebar (Library icon).

How presets are organised

MNodes keeps presets in two main places:

• User library: your personal presets, node presets, subgraphs, modules and Hub downloads. Lives under your Documents folder by default.
• Project folders: an optional second location where you can keep presets tied to a specific project. Useful for DAW project bundles or for syncing a set of patches via Dropbox/iCloud.

Both locations are scanned at startup, and the Library shows everything merged together.

Setting the paths

Open Settings → Paths to see and change the folder locations:

• User: the root of your personal library (set once, used always).
• Projects: optional extra root for project-specific presets.

Use the folder icon to pick a new path. Changes take effect immediately: the Library rescans automatically.

What lives inside

Inside your library root you'll find subfolders for each type of content:

Folder	Contents
Presets	Full patches (.mnprt)
NodePresets	Saved state of a single node (.mnnpreset)
Subgraphs	Shared subgraph files (.mnspreset)
Modules	Shared module files (.mnmpreset)
Samples	Audio samples used by sampler/player nodes

You don't have to create these by hand: MNodes creates them on first use.

Browsing the Library

In the Library panel you can:

• Search by name.
• Filter by category.
• Audition by clicking the preview button on a card.
• Double-click to load a preset.
• Right-click to rename, duplicate, reveal in Finder/Explorer, or delete.

The browser remembers its state for the session: scroll position, search text, tag filters, sort order, row size and the favourites-only toggle. Close it and reopen it and you land right back where you left off.

Refreshing

Most file changes are picked up automatically. If something doesn't appear after an external change, click the Refresh button at the top of the Library panel: the scan runs again and the cache is rebuilt.

How the scan works

• On startup, MNodes walks the User and Projects folders and builds an index.
• The index is cached so the Library opens instantly on subsequent launches.
• Adding, moving, or deleting presets inside MNodes updates the index live.
• External changes (files dropped from Finder, for example) are picked up by Refresh or on next startup.

Tips

• Keep your Projects folder on shared storage (Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive) to follow your presets across machines.
• Organise with subfolders: MNodes shows the folder structure in the browser.
• Import .mnprt bundles by dragging them onto the Library panel, or with File → Import.