diff --git a/src/snippets/BaryonicReconnection.in b/src/snippets/BaryonicReconnection.in
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/src/snippets/BaryonicReconnection.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Set strange quark mass to 0.45 in order to allow alternative gluon splitting
-set /Herwig/Particles/s:ConstituentMass 0.45*GeV
-set /Herwig/Particles/sbar:ConstituentMass 0.45*GeV
-
-# Use Baryonic Colour Reconnection Model
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/ColourReconnector:Algorithm Baryonic
-
-# Allow alternative gluon splitting
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/PartonSplitter:Split uds
-
diff --git a/src/snippets/Makefile.am b/src/snippets/Makefile.am
--- a/src/snippets/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/snippets/Makefile.am
@@ -1,51 +1,48 @@
 BUILT_SOURCES = done-all-links
 
 snippetsdir = ${pkgdatadir}/snippets
 
 INPUTFILES = \
 CellGridSampler.in \
 Diffraction.in \
 DipoleMerging.in \
 DipoleShowerFiveFlavours.in \
 DipoleShowerFourFlavours.in \
 EECollider.in \
 EPCollider.in \
 HepMCFixedOrder.in \
 HepMC.in \
 Matchbox.in \
 MB-DipoleShower.in \
 MB.in \
 MonacoSampler.in \
 Particles-SetLonglivedParticlesStable.in \
 PDF-CT10.in \
 PDF-NNPDF30NLO.in \
 PPCollider.in \
 RivetFixedOrder.in \
 Rivet.in \
-SoftModel.in \
-SoftTune.in \
 YFS.in \
-BaryonicReconnection.in \
 CMWinQtiledShower.in \
 Dipole_AutoTune_prel.in \
 Tune-DotProduct.in  \
 Tune-DotProduct-Veto.in  \
 Tune-pT.in  \
 Tune-Q2.in \
 EvolutionScheme-DotProduct.in  \
 EvolutionScheme-DotProduct-Veto.in  \
 EvolutionScheme-pT.in  \
 EvolutionScheme-Q2.in \
 FixedTarget.in \
 FixedTarget-PP.in
 
 dist_snippets_DATA = $(INPUTFILES)
 
 CLEANFILES = done-all-links
 
 done-all-links: $(INPUTFILES)
 	@echo "Linking input files"
 	@for i in $(INPUTFILES); do \
 	if test -f $(srcdir)/$$i -a ! -e $$i; then \
 	$(LN_S) -f $(srcdir)/$$i; fi; done
 	@touch done-all-links
diff --git a/src/snippets/SoftModel.in b/src/snippets/SoftModel.in
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/src/snippets/SoftModel.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Parameters for soft interactions
-
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:colourDisrupt 0.0
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/ColourReconnector:ColourReconnection Yes
-
-# Use multiperipheral kinematics
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:MultiPeriph Yes
-
-# Set gaussian width of longitudinal momentum fraction fluctuation
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:gaussWidth 0.03
-
-# Tuned to min-bias data (5B tune)
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/ColourReconnector:ReconnectionProbability 0.652710
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:pTmin0 3.568157
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:InvRadius 1.489997
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:Power 0.420445
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:ladderPower -0.088983
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:ladderNorm 1.086029
- 
diff --git a/src/snippets/SoftTune.in b/src/snippets/SoftTune.in
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/src/snippets/SoftTune.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Tund for UE and MB (these are the default parameters)
-
-set /Herwig/MatrixElements/MEMinBias:csNorm 0.01
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:DLmode 2
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:pTmin0 2.55
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:InvRadius 1.58
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:Power 0.322
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:ladderMult 0.466
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:ladderbFactor 0.46
-set /Herwig/UnderlyingEvent/MPIHandler:DiffractiveRatio 0.133
-set /Herwig/Partons/RemnantDecayer:PtDistribution 4
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/ColourReconnector:ReconnectionProbability 0.89
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/ColourReconnector:ReconnectionProbabilityBaryonic 0.57
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/HadronSelector:PwtSquark 0.291717
-set /Herwig/Hadronization/PartonSplitter:SplitPwtSquark 0.824135
-