# Playbeat 3 Quick Presets Not Loading Sounds on MIDI Trigger **URL:** \ **Category:** Help & Support\ **Created:** [March 9, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439 "2025-03-09T08:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cambler](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/cambler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/1 "2025-03-09T08:30:46Z")
Hi, I’m currently fighting with Playbeat 3 in Cubasis in order to finish a track. The only way (apart from exporting patterns to audio) I can use it with multiple patterns in a composition is to utilise key based midi triggers to trigger Quick Presets at relevant points in the compotion. All good there as I have this basic aspect working, however… the Quick Presets only change the patterns and not the sounds associated with the preset. Anyone else have this issue? Is it me? Is there a workaround besides exporting audio? So many questions 😝 ---
**Author:** ![davidfodel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.audiomodern.com/davidfodel/32/85_2.png) [@davidfodel](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/davidfodel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/2 "2025-03-10T03:49:34Z")
This might be a similar issue as the one linked here: > [@Playbeat Drops Fixed Notes when Switching Between Pads](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-drops-fixed-notes-when-switching-between-pads/584): > > When I assign Fixed Note Outputs in Playbeat and use the 'Auto-Fill Remix" button to fill the pads with alternate patterns, if I change the pattern by clicking a button, all of the assignments for the Fixed Notes no longer work properly. I have to manually turn Fixed Notes Off and then On again for each Track in order to get them to work properly again. Even when I go back to the ‘original’ pattern (Pad Number 1), I have to do the same thing. It makes it completely useless to use the pads functi… ---
**Author:** ![cambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cambler](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/cambler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/3 "2025-03-10T04:03:49Z")
Thanks David. Doesn’t look like there was any resolution to your issue? Not sure if it’s related to this one with the quick presets. I’ll have to try on the desktop version to see if it exhibits the same issue. ---
**Author:** ![Audiomodern](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.audiomodern.com/audiomodern/32/3_2.png) [@Audiomodern](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/Audiomodern)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/4 "2025-03-10T08:27:25Z")
Hi, in the previous version, the quick load presets were designed to store pattern changes, not the sounds. ---
**Author:** ![cambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cambler](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/cambler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/5 "2025-03-10T08:41:01Z")
Thanks for the response. I thought they loaded actual presets? Is there a way to trigger presets via midi? ---
**Author:** ![Audiomodern](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.audiomodern.com/audiomodern/32/3_2.png) [@Audiomodern](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/Audiomodern)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/6 "2025-03-10T08:44:19Z")
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to trigger different presets via MIDI. ---
**Author:** ![cambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cambler](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/cambler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/7 "2025-03-11T01:37:01Z")
This is such a shame. Can I ask what best practice is for those working with PB3 in a DAW? At present, the only viable method seems to be rendering out the patterns to audio. ---
**Author:** ![Audiomodern](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.audiomodern.com/audiomodern/32/3_2.png) [@Audiomodern](https://forum.audiomodern.com/u/Audiomodern)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.audiomodern.com/t/playbeat-3-quick-presets-not-loading-sounds-on-midi-trigger/2439/8 "2025-03-12T08:47:09Z")
Changing presets that have a new set of sounds within the same track is not supported in either version. Instead, you can render the audio -or- use multiple instances of the app in your project, each having a different preset.