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Starting with Unify v1.7, you will see a “…” button to the right of the library-selector menu:

Clicking the “…” button opens the new Library Subset view, which allows you to select a subset of the libraries on your system, rather than having to see all of them, in order to de-clutter the library-selector menu. Having defined a library subset, you can save it as a named Library-SubsetPreset for later reuse.

• Power-user shortcut: Right-click the “…” button (or hold down CTRL while left-clicking) to pop up a menu of available library-subset presets(explained below).

The Library Subset view includes the following controls, listed from top to bottom:

• The Close button returns the sidebar to the usual patch-browser view.
• The current preset name is shown next to “Preset:”.
• The All Libraries, Load, and Save… buttons are described in detail below.
• The large library list at the bottom shows ALL libraries in Unify's patch database, and allows you to select which subset of them you would like to work with.

The library list will scroll if necessary. It's a multi-selection list, like others in the Unify GUI, and works as follows:

• Click (no modifiers) to select an item, and simultaneously de-select all others
• CTRL + Click (CMD + Click on Mac) to toggle an item's selection
• SHIFT + Click to select a range of items (click 1st item, Shift+click last in the range)

If NO libraries are selected, then they are ALL effectively selected. Clicking the All Libs button will de-select all list items and return to this condition. If ANY libraries are selected, the set of selected libraries defines the current libraries preset.

If you select one or more libraries, the current preset name will change to “Unsaved Library Subset”, indicating that you have changed the current subset, but haven't yet saved this subset as a preset. This unsaved subset is entirely usable; if you click the Close button, the first item in the main library-selector menu will change to “All: Unsaved Library Subset”, and when you click it, you will see that this is followed by only the libraries you selected, like this:

(In this case, exactly four libraries had been selected.) Note that clicking the Reset button at the top of the patch browser will now revert to showing only the libraries in the current preset. If you want to go back to seeing ALL libraries, click the “…” button, then the “All Libraries” button, then “Close”.

Having defined a subset, you can save it as a named preset by clicking the Save… button.

• A standard file-save dialog will appear, and should already be prepared to save the preset file (as a .txt file) in the Presets/Library Subsetssub-folder inside the main Unify data folder.
• Navigate down into any sub-folder if you wish.
• Type a name for your preset as the new file name; Unify will add the .txt extension automatically.
• Click the Save button.

Once you have saved your preset, its name will be displayed above the row of three buttons, and will also be shown instead of “Unsaved LibrarySubset” when you click Close to return to the main view.

Unify will remember the last library preset you saved/loaded, and will automatically load that the next time you run it. Remember, to revert to all libraries: Click “…”, then “All Libraries”, then “Close”.

• If the last library subset you were using before closing Unify was unsaved, Unify will NOT remember this; it will open next time with all libraries selected.

To re-load one of your saved library-subset presets, click the Load button. This will pop up a menu of all ''.txt' files under the Presets/LibrarySubsets folder, with sub-menus for any sub-folders you may have created, like this:

To load a preset, roll your mouse until the preset you want is highlighted, and then release the mouse button. The current preset name will be updated, and of course also the libraries menu in the main view.