How to change skins on ACE?

[kennyda]

Hiya, title says it all. I did do a search but cant seem to find instructions. I have downloaded the white one and fancied giving it a try.

Cheers for any replies

[bmrzycki]

Hi kennyda,

You'll need to replace the corresponding files in the preset data location for ACE.

For example, let's say you have the ACE data installed to:
C:\VST Plugin Data\u-he\ACE.data

You will have a subdirectory called ACE.data/Data. In there you will find two more directories, Images/ and Scripts/. The White magic zip file contains the same directories. You should just copy those directories over the ones in the Data/ dir mentioned above.

you should really consider backing up your data before doing this. Just a simple copy of the entire ACE.data dir will be sufficient. After all the ACE.data directory also contains all the factory and user presets.

I hope this helps.

[kennyda]

Brilliant. Thanks, I will do that!

[kennyda]

Cant find these files, is it different cos Im on a mac?

[Urs]

Cant find these files, is it different cos Im on a mac?

Right-click on ACE.component (or ACE.vst/ACE.dpm) and select "Show Package Contents". Then browse to Contents/Resources/

[kennyda]

ah, nice one, will give that a go, cheers!

[kennyda]

Yeah that worked fine. I swapped to the white one. It looks nice, only small snag is that it doesnt seem to show the inputs and outputs differently, so I might leave that til I know my way around ACE.