Moving ManyGuitar soundsets...?

[mn]

I'm in the middle of a DAW rebuild, and I've been rebuilding my Wusik directories from scratch rather than bringing forward all my legacy V1 and V2 mess of converted banks, etc.

The good news is you can pretty much organize things how you want these days as the Wusik browser (and latest Manystation browser) is flexible enough to search and correct presets, etc. The bad news is the only things I can't get where I want them are the ManyGuitar soundsets. It'd be very nice if we could have a dll update with a little more flexibility in the preset location. I've tried moving and copying them everywhere under the sun, and I even searched the registry to see if I could update a path somewhere (doesn't appear so) and the only place the presets would work is if the soundset folders were in the root Wusik SoundSets folder. I don't really want them there because I now have everything organized in folders by vendor, etc. So it's all organized with the exception of these eyesore MT_... folders.

I just want them in

\SoundSets\Manytone\ManyGuitar... or
\Soundsets\Manytone\Manystation\...

something clean like that.

As it is now, my SoundSets looks like:
\Dangerous Bear
\DashSound
\ElektroWusik
\Manytone
\MT Bass Guitars_Electric
\MT Guitars_Acoustic
\MT Guitars_Electric
\Waveforms
\Wusik Sound Magazine
\Wusikstation


I note that this is the MS crossgrade install, and the original note with the order said the installer would put the sounds where the Manystation sounds are installed. I think that I have moved the MS soundsets from where they installed, but the MS dll still finds them, as does the Wusik DLL.

Granted we can just use them in the WE products and build presets but then we lose the use of the MG engine. The kicker is that if they were DashSND, it appears the MG would see them (it displays my whole DashSound directory, which is organized where I want it under the Wusik data directory).

So how about a little dll update with some root directory set-ability, or converting the sounds and presets to DashSND?

Not holding my breath, but one can hope.

[manytone]

The problem lies in 2 things.
1) ManyGuitar only can see 1 folder depth in your wusik sound directory. We Improved this with the new ManyOne Browser and this will be available in ManyGuitar in a future update. That will allow you to go the multiple folder depth that you want.

2) FXB preset banks (which ManyGuitar uses) Rely on the soundsets being in the location that the preset was made/ saved from. Therefore if you move the sound structure to a new directory your FXB banks and presets will not load unless you relocate each soundset from each preset and resave it.

Wusik / ManyStation have their own internal preset structure and do not use FXB so that is why they can search the sounds. I think that is a limitataion of the fxp - fxb format somewhat, that it needs the sounds where they were saved from but I will get Aldo our coder to see if anything can be or should be changed here.

Anyways Part 1 we got sorted for you in the next ManyGuitar update. But any trouble with presets loading after you move the soundsets may be attributed to the current FXB standards.

Again, I'll see if Aldo has any input on this.
Paul

[mn]

Cool - thanks, Paul. Just messing with this as we type. I'm aware of the newer WE preset format. I thought about writing down all the soundsets used in presets, then moving, reloading and saving (and I may still do that) but that's a decent bit of work that I don't have time for atm, I need to plow ahead and install . Even a little batch file preset patcher to search/replace a pathname in the FXB would be helpful.

I also seem to be missing a few soundsets from Manystation presets now, I bet I dropped some of the original MS soundsets during my copying/cutting/pasting of MG... so I'm reinstalling the MS sounds now... aargh.

Thanks. No biggie, just struggling to try to keep control of my disk management, you know.