Location of Cakewalk's own presets

[John Deacon]

There are a few posts about the location of plugin presets. But where are Cakewalk's own presets stored - specifically the Process | Find/Change presets. I want to make sure I'm backing them up.

 I tried creating a preset with a distinctive name and searching the file system for it but with no luck.

[Bristol_Jonesey]

It's a registry entry

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Presets\{FDEA90C0-FCFC-11CF-953F-00AA00A76449}

[pedant]

18 minutes ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

It's a registry entry

i always wondered why they did that, even ms (used to?) say to avoid registry unless absolutely necessary, here's a decent overview https://stackoverflow.com/questions/268424/when-and-why-should-you-store-data-in-the-windows-registry

[John Deacon]

Odd indeed. But there they are. And now backed up. I just hope I remember it's not a file when I go looking for it.

Thanks.

[Promidi]

This is why I include the preset registry key in my daily backup routine.

regedit /e {reg file, including full path} "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Sonar\Presets"