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My point is that this is not posible, no VST host does this AFAIK. Its a limitation of the VST specification. In part because there are different ways in which presets can be set up inside a VST.

For example you can notice that native Instruments VSts when used in Live show the name of the preset ...

Both of those, specially the first doesn't depend on Live (all vst host work like this) but on how VSTs are designed.

Concerning the preset list:
Live can access the preset list of an AU plugin, thats what it does when it creates an automatic folder in the Plug-Ins folder. So concerning the ...

Of course, I would love new functions like DNA, multiple audio sections in clips, audio & midi comping, vst3 & per note automation, time stretching in simpler & sampler, etc... but I will be said that it's not in Live's philosophy, or that Ableton makes things later than its competitors but makes it ...