Zebra: Legacy Soundsets installed, but not in Preset List

[Stefan E]

Hi,
I am new to ZebraHZ and use the VST in Cubase 14 on Win10.
I installed the Legacy Soundsets via drag and drop onto the plugin, received the message "installed", but I cannot find any of the legacy patches among the presets. E.g. searching for presets by author does not show any result.
When I try to install them again, the plugin says "already installed".
What can I do to select & play any of these legacy presets?
Best
Stefan

[tasmaniandevil]

The soundsets were created for Zebra2, so they are installed in the Zebra2 presets folder.
To access them from within ZebraHZ, check the "User" area of the directory tree in ZebraHZ's preset browser.
Click the little triangle next to the folder named Zebra2, and you will find all the Legacy soundsets there.

[Stefan E]

Thx for the fast reply! I checked it but the "User" area only contains an empty "Zebra2" folder.

[zvenx]

I would also do a right click refresh over the presets...
rsp

[Stefan E]

I tried it, but it did not help. I also restarted Cubase, but no success so far.

[zvenx]

Do you have Zebra 2 installed as well?
I wonder if it needs Zebra 2 to be installed so it has access to its Data file or some indication of its data file.
Tas?
rsp

[Stefan E]

I just started Zebra 2 and all Legacy presets are listed under "User/Legacy" I installed all soundsets with ZebraHZ but they appear in Zebra 2. Thank you for the tip to use Zebra 2!

[tasmaniandevil]

Zebra2 doesn't need to be installed. If it doesn't exist, the needed folders will be created during the installation of the soundsets (on Mac), or during the installation of ZebraHZ (on Windows).

If the soundsets appear inside Zebra2 but not inside the Zebra2 folder that shows up in ZebraHZ, this just means that folder shortcut is pointing to a wrong directory.

You can check where it leads. Just right-click the Zebra2 folder in the ZebraHZ browser and then select "open in Explorer".

[Stefan E]

Thank you very much for explaining how to check the folders!

The Zebra2 user folder in Zebra2 is F:\u-he\Zebra2.data\UserPresets\Zebra2 and contains the Legacy subfolder with all content.

The Zebra2 user folder in Zebra HZ is F:\u-he\ZebraHZ.data\UserPresets\ZebraHZ\Zebra2 and it's empty.
I copied the Legacy folder into the Zebra2 subfolder. ZebraHZ now shows the directories but not presets.

Is ZebraHZ just an enhanced version of Zebra2, i.e. ZebraHZ has all features and all the content of Zebra2?

EDIT: How can I get the Legacy presets in ZebraHZ running? - I solved it by right clicking on the Legacy folder and selecting "Refresh"

[tasmaniandevil]

The Zebra2 user folder in Zebra2 is F:\u-he\Zebra2.data\UserPresets\Zebra2 and contains the Legacy subfolder with all content.

The Zebra2 user folder in Zebra HZ is F:\u-he\ZebraHZ.data\UserPresets\ZebraHZ\Zebra2 and it's empty.

If the ZebraHZ.data\UserPresets\ZebraHZ\Zebra2 folder is a real folder, then that's the problem. That Zebra2 folder should be a symlink to the Zebra2.data\UserPresets\Zebra2 folder.
This symlink gets created either during the Zebra2 or the ZebraHZ installation.

Is ZebraHZ just an enhanced version of Zebra2, i.e. ZebraHZ has all features and all the content of Zebra2?

Yes.

[Stefan E]

Thx!!

How can I fix the symlink issue? Do I need to de-install Zebra2, ZebraHZ, Zebralette3 (beta)?
And if so, is there any sequence I need to re-install them?

[tasmaniandevil]

Delete the ZebraHZ.data\UserPresets\ZebraHZ\Zebra2 folder.
Run the ZebraHZ installer once more, it should now create the symlink to the already existing Zebra2.data\UserPresets\Zebra2 folder.

[Stefan E]

Thank you very much again! You are very helpful.

After
1. deleting the folders ZebraHZ.data\UserPresets\ZebraHZ\Zebra2 and F:\u-he\Zebra2.data\UserPresets\Zebra2\Legacy
2. Re-installing The Dark Zebra
3. Re-installing the Zebra Legacy Soundsets
it finally works.