Short Pilot overview

Pilot main animated GIF
Note that the 'Pilot' shown here has been 'styled' to look a bit like Charlatan's original editor.

In the image above, the 'Pilot' is the area within the orange ellipsis.
The left part of it is dedicated to banks and filters.
The 'Bank' menu button gives access to bank related functionality like importing, saving and loading of banks.
Immediately next right to this button 'Filter' related information is shown which might vary depending on
the selection of applied filter done in the 'Preset Picker'.
The 'Preset' menu button marks the begin of the section related to presets.
The button itself gives access to preset related functionality like importing, saving and loading of presets.
Immediately next right to this button there is a field which shows the actual position of the preset in the bank.
If you see a 'F' there, then this means that that position is fixed and the Preset Picker will open in
its 'Database presets view' if you click on the area where the name of the actual preset is displayed.
Any database preset selected from the Preset Picker will be loaded into this 'fixed' bank position.
If there is no 'F' in that field, then the Preset Picker will open in its 'Internal bank view' when you click on the area
where the preset name is displayed, and if you then select a different internal preset in the Preset Picker
then also the position displayed here will change.
By clicking on this preset position field you can toggle between 'Internal bank mode' and 'Database preset mode'.
Note that there are VST 2 plugins, which don't support banks.
For those only the 'Database preset mode' will be available and the bank position will always be displayed as 'F 1'.
What in the image above is displayed with 'More' actually is what by default is called 'Menu',
and this menu button gives access to other VeeSTeeEx specific functionality.
At the very right side of the Pilot there is a field, which might show a blinking exclamation mark.
This is an indication that an error occured (e.g. when you tried to import presets from a different VST 2 plugin)
and by clicking on it, the Preset Picker will open with the log window open where you can see the error.

The Pilot can be styled in many ways by editing the GUI file - which is an xml file.
More to this topic will be added later to this manual...