# Types/Characteristics Editor

The Types/Characteristics Editor allows you to organize the Types and Characteristics.

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Types and Characteristics are shared across all plugins/presets.
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You might wish to read the [terminology about Types and Characteristics](../../terminology#types-characteristics) if you are confused about what they mean.
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New Types and Characteristics are automatically added when found in plugin presets unless ignored.
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## Adding and Editing a Type / Characteristic

Adds or edits a new type or characteristic to use it later for editing the preset metadata. You can also optionally define a [redirect](#type-characteristic-redirects) or [ignore](#ignoring-types-characteristics) the type / characteristic.

### Ignoring Types / Characteristics

Sometimes it's useful to ignore certain types or characteristics. If a type or characteristic is ignored, it will never be added to any preset again.

### Type / Characteristic Redirects

Redirects are a mechanism to better organize your types and characteristics. Because the main source of types and characteristics are presets loaded from your plugins, this often ends up in a mess of similar types and characteristics, making it hard to actually find the sound you wish.

For example, some vendors use "Bass > Acoustic" and others use "Basses > Acoustic". Redirects allow you to consolidate these types and characteristics. In that case, you would create a redirect from "Basses > Acoustic" to "Bass > Acoustic".

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You can only set up a redirect one level deep. It's not possible to redirect from "Basses > Acoustic Basses" to "Basses > Acoustic" and then to "Bass > Acoustic". The reason is that it would be difficult to implement this, and also very confusing to maintain for you.
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## Deleting a Type / Characteristic

You can delete types and characteristics with this command. The deleted types and characteristics will be removed from all presets as well.&#x20;

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You cannot delete types and characteristics which are a redirect target. For example, if you redirect from "Basses > Acoustic" to "Bass > Acoustic", you cannot delete "Bass > Acoustic" as the redirect would become invalid.
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If you delete a type or characteristic and re-analyze your plugin presets, PresetMagician treats it if a type or characteristic was never existent in the first place. If you wish to avoid that, please [mark a type or characteristic as ignored](#ignoring-types-characteristics).
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## Show Type/Characteristic Usage

To decide which types or characteristics to ignore or redirect, it's helpful to get an overview from which plugins they actually came from. This command displays a dialog where all plugins using the selected type/characteristic are shown.

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You can copy and paste the plugin names from that dialog for future reference
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