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Massive presets not loading in maschine project
Normally when I do anything in massive (as a VST inside maschine) and save it as a preset, the maschine project seems to embed the saved preset, so its there everytime I load the project. This is intuitive and worked great for me.
until now.
I was moving my massive patches around, and accidentally ended up deactiving massive in the plugin-ins manager in maschine.
when i reloaded it as a plugin, none of my maschine project files could find any of my massive presets. all other VST/AU plugins would load normally.
But with massive, I could find the presets I had used in the bank library, but they would not load by default when opening the maschine project. I'm seeing an "untitled sound" for all instances of massive in all of my projects. I've tried dialing in all the presets (again) and saving as a new filename, but to no avail. Everytime I reload any of these files, massive defaults to 'untitled sound'! grrrr
(Strantely, this feature works if I make a new sound in a new project, insert a massive synth, save it and reload it, but it won't work with any of my existing projects).
I hoped into time machine on my mac and grabbed the .mprj files from two days ago (before I noticed the problem)... when I open these files, the massive presets load correctly, even though the .nmsv patches are in a new location from where they were in that version of the file. So I guess the file path of the VST preset doesn't matter? As long as you have something in your library with the same name? I still can't explain what caused this and why I can't save newly dialed in presets in my own projects.
I'm totally boggled - and what's worse I have no idea what happened and no reason not to expect it to happen again.
I looked inside the .mprj files to see if something was amiss, and it first looked to be XML, but the metadata for Massive is all encoded and impossible to read.
Does anyone know how this feature (VST presets being stored inside maschine) really works, or have any info on what may have caused the problem?
I've been doing work on tunes for the past while and would prefer not to replace the my current .mprjs with old ones from TM, but I'll have to if I can't get the VST presets to save inside maschine again.
Happy to upload one of the projects if anyone knows how to read those files without maschine...
until then, I'm just clueless and frustrated. Any ideas as to why this might be occuring?
Is the preset metadata from massive actually stored in the .mprj, or is it just telling it to look in a location to find the preset?
Like - in theory - could I delete my massive preset library and still have massive load those settings when its bunded in a .mprj?
cheers,
-AK
edit: tried reinstalling maschine and massive, but this did not fix the problem.
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