ZEN - First impressions and questions

[akira]

Hi Tick,
I've always dreamt of a database like ZEN with categories of presets of all my synths, but you've surpassed my imagination of such a tool! To be able to filter with Author, Timbre, and Category and combining these filters is just GREAT!
Mannnnnnnnny thanks that this is free so far.
The literally "dark side" of ZEN is the default skin, which I think is not ergonomic ( cause of fonts and colors ) ! I would like to make another thread about this.
Thanks to the skinnability of ZEN, I was able to help myself.

Tick, I have a few essential questions:

1. I haven't understood, how to import my own presets...I don't mean presets, which I made, but presets, which were already on my disc, before I installed ZEN. I know where the import button is, but where should I open the VSTi, in my DAW, or in ZEN...and if in ZEN...in the standalone or in the plugin version?? When I open certain VSTi's in ZEN, which have no own preset management, then how to scroll and import these presets?

2. The Rhino presets, which came via the net in my library...they sound all the same and sometimes they make eery noises.

3. I want to change the seize of the font, appearing in all the lists (Category / Plugin / Author etc.) What is the name of this font in "skin.properties"?

4. Just Feedback
Adonis pro - always crashing when loading a preset
GTK EP 2008 - imported presets via net but No sound
GTK Sputnik - imported presets via net but No Sound
GTK 2008 - imported presets via net but No sound

P.S.: how can we change the size of the whole window?

[Big Tick]

Hi, sorry for the delay - kvr doesn't notify of new topics, so I missed your message.

1. This video should explain it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_86tox39A

2. Is your Rhino registered properly ? Do you have the latest version ?

3. All of these:

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ContextSearchResultBox.font: Arial-11-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.font.selected: Arial-11-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.font.negated: Arial-11-bold-strikeout
ContextSearchResultBox.font.disabled: Arial-10-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.font.disabled.noMatches: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.privateFont: Arial-11-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.privateFont.selected: Arial-11-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.privateFont.negated: Arial-11-bold-strikeout
ContextSearchResultBox.privateFont.disabled: Arial-10-bold
ContextSearchResultBox.privateFont.disabled.noMatches: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.matchesFont: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.matchesFont.selected: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.matchesFont.disabled: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.matchesFont.disabled.noMatches: Arial-10
ContextSearchResultBox.matchesFont.negated: Arial-10-strikeout

4. Adonis is working fine here (under Zen in WinXP). I don't have the other ones installed, so I can't test them for now.

5. If you want to change the size of the window you'll need to modify everything in the skin. If you simply want to display more results in the list, so you don't need to go through so many pages, you can edit the value presetDatabase.itemsPerPage in zen.properties

'Tick

[akira]

H Tick,

2. Is your Rhino registered properly ? Do you have the latest version ?

Please watch your PM!

Which version of Adonis do you use?

For the rest
Thank You