Zenification requests

[xybre]

Does this happen with all vst's, or only some ?

It's unpredictable far as I can tell, but I will try to experiment with it tonight or tomorrow and try to details steps to replicate the problem. I'm afraid it might be an XT-specific problem. I really would like to like a different host, heh.

Your workaround is not very convenient, it kinda defeats the purpose of using a preset manager...

It is inconvenient, but its not a deal-killer. And here's why: None of the synths I use it with don't have very good preset browsers, no sorting or categorization, and there's no way to share or get new presets without digging around online.

I'll come up with something, some way for Zen to notify its host so that you could directly, from Zen, ask XT to create a new VST with the desired preset. Of course you would need to persuade the XT people to support it...

I wouldn't hold your breath, Xt's support is MIA. Unless you have cash for them it seems.

[abstractcats]

Hello BigTick

I'd like to request KarmaFX?

I was also thinking KV331 Synthmaster and CamalAudio Alchemy, but maybe there built patch save functions might make Zen redundant? Hmmm.

Thanks

[Big Tick]

Have you tried to drop these plugins dll's into Zen ? This should be enough to activate them....

'Tick

[sunhome]

Have you tried to drop these plugins dll's into Zen ? This should be enough to activate them....

'Tick

Just tried this technique with Vember Audio Surge and it worked;

Surge has each individual preset as a fxp so dropping 102 polysynth Surge presets onto zen was a breeze; however how can I attach a category to all 102 at once?

Regards, James

[Big Tick]

Easy:

- Change the number of presets displayed in the search results (you will need to edit the zen.properties files)
- select all presets using shift-click, and then apply your tag to the entire selection.

[sunhome]

Easy:

- Change the number of presets displayed in the search results (you will need to edit the zen.properties files)
- select all presets using shift-click, and then apply your tag to the entire selection.

1. Where is the zen.properties file as its not in my vst folder no program file/big tick/zen folder AFAIK
2. Shift/Click works but but then how do I match a category to a selected preset. What do I do after I shift click select?


Regards, James

[Big Tick]

It is in C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\Application Data\Big Tick\zen\

Once you've selected a bunch of presets, ctrl-click a tag and it will apply the tag to all the presets.

'Tick

[sunhome]

Thanks that did work! One more question ...

1. Seem to need to delete a few categories that I added how is that done - shift/click puts a line thru but I want to delete.

Regards, James

[Big Tick]

Expand the list using the top left triangle, double-click the category to edit the name, and empty the name - this will delete the category.