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HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:18 pm

Anybody know if there such a tool that would allow you to edit fxp files.

Particularly, Chainer files. Sometimes some plug-ins within Chainer combos crash Chainer, so the whole combo becomes unloadable/useless.

Going in and removing the troublesome plugin from the fxp file, so that you can save it out and let Chainer load the rest of the combo would be ideal.

Also, sometimes a combination of two plug-ins will crash the combo when trying to re-open it, so editing one plug out and then the other would allow you to go back and save those presets individually and load them for live use.

Many thanks

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:49 pm

I know very little about this and I don't know if this answer will help, or even lead you on the right path but there is a FREE (afaik) standalone Prog' called dmbankmaker2 available. It's for making BANKS obviously!

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:23 pm

Thanks for the information. Sorry for hijacking this topic a bit, but is there any tool that lets you extract the presets in a bank into separate files? Thanks in advance.

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:43 pm

jobromedia wrote:Thanks for the information. Sorry for hijacking this topic a bit, but is there any tool that lets you extract the presets in a bank into separate files? Thanks in advance.

asHost will extract FXP-files from a FXB-file ...
Download: http://asseca.com/ashost/ashost.127.zip

amiga909 · Post by **amiga909** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:49 pm

there was a discussion about extracting FXP files here: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=259132

christian budde wrote a FXP to Excel app. but it does not convert it back, i fear..

zeep · Post by **zeep** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:56 pm

Is there also a handy tool for doing the opposite? I want to sort presets and save them in a bank.

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:59 pm

zeep wrote:Is there also a handy tool for doing the opposite? I want to sort presets and save them in a bank.

asHost does that as well ...

zeep · Post by **zeep** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:05 pm

Thanks i will give it a try.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:12 pm

HunterKiller wrote:Anybody know if there such a tool that would allow you to edit fxp files.

Particularly, Chainer files. Sometimes some plug-ins within Chainer combos crash Chainer, so the whole combo becomes unloadable/useless.

Going in and removing the troublesome plugin from the fxp file, so that you can save it out and let Chainer load the rest of the combo would be ideal.

Also, sometimes a combination of two plug-ins will crash the combo when trying to re-open it, so editing one plug out and then the other would allow you to go back and save those presets individually and load them for live use.

Many thanks

have you tried contacting the dev of Chainer? he might be able to help with that, may be a bug of some sort...?

HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:07 pm

Kriminal wrote:
HunterKiller wrote:Anybody know if there such a tool that would allow you to edit fxp files.

Particularly, Chainer files. Sometimes some plug-ins within Chainer combos crash Chainer, so the whole combo becomes unloadable/useless.

Going in and removing the troublesome plugin from the fxp file, so that you can save it out and let Chainer load the rest of the combo would be ideal.

Also, sometimes a combination of two plug-ins will crash the combo when trying to re-open it, so editing one plug out and then the other would allow you to go back and save those presets individually and load them for live use.

Many thanks
have you tried contacting the dev of Chainer? he might be able to help with that, may be a bug of some sort...?

No I haven't.

Anyway it doesn't have anything to do with Chainer, it's a combination of two plugs that causes the combo to crash. In my instance a combination of Tera 2 and Guitar Rig 3.

But I found a way to do exactly what I wanted. In a hex editor I just, well rather blindly, took out the code that I thought was relevant to the plugin that I wanted to take out of the combo. Then saved the fxp in the hex editor and much to my surprise, it works a 100%.
The combo loads normally in Chainer and the plug in that I wanted out, well there's no trace of it.

Sometimes if that troublesome plug in has a particular setting that's fundamental to the overall combo instrument, then you just edit out all the other plug-ins and leave that plug. Load that 'combo' and save the preset.

Then it's just a matter of using that troublesome plugin and its preset with all the other ones in the combo live as you record.

In my case Tera 2 does some wierd shit to Guitar Rig 2 and 3, so I can't save them together in a combo.

Some other plugs do this as well, for example the different versions of Ariesverb were incompatible with each other, you couldn't load a later version and have the old one still running.

FXP File Editor?