how do I import user presets to GR4?

I downloaded a preset which was a .bnk, then unzipped to desktop. Then I copied it to my documents/native instruments/shared content/sounds/guitar rig 4 (those are all .ksd files) then i scan for new files in GR4 and they don't show up. Am I doing something wrong? can the .bnk files not be used in GR4? thanks for you help.

 

Please, anyone know how I can do this, I'd really like to try out some of the user presets!

 

In the upper left corner in GR 4 in the 'File'-menu click on 'Import...'. Select 'Preset Bank File *.bnk' as filetype (the window opens with Guitar Rig 4 Sound*.ksd as default) and navigate to the location of your .bnk-file.
Hope that helps!

Cheers, Hans

 

Thank you! I missed the dropdown in the lower right to choose file types (.bnk or .ksd) That was the problem.. thanks alot. :lol:

 

Hello Hans,

I just read your above reply on importing bnk files into guitar rig4. I did what you said without any issues. The problem is I can't find the file in GR4 after I import it. Where should it show up and under what name? Should it be a song or style or amp etc...I downloaded a smooth drive file from the fusion section of the user area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Hi Telewacker,

the preset you loaded will only show up under 'Amp', 'Style', 'Song' or whatever, if it has that tag. Make sure in the browser under 'preset attributes' nothing is selected (to deselect click on it once). Then all presets will be shown in the list at lower left and you should find it. You can also just use the search function. Type the name of the preset you're looking for into the search bar located between the list with the preset attributes and the list with the preset names, hope that helps!

Hans

 

Import still not working....

Thanks Hans but it still isn't working. I don't understand what is going on. Could it be that gtr rig4 doesn't recognize a bnk file from a lower version of gtr rig? When I select the bnk file ( Hans Van Even - Smoothdrive) and click on open, the dialog box disappears as if it downloaded the file but when I search the presets there isn't any thing that matches Hans Van Even - Smoothdrive. There must be something I am doing wrong! I am going to try a few other patches and see if they work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Thanks,
Sheldon

 

Thanks. I finally got it working. I didn't realize that the presets had different names than the bnk file. It is all good. I knew it was something simple.

Sheldon

 

I am having the exact same issue. I tried downloaded some bank files and I import them but can't find them in the preset browser. How did you solve this exactly?

Thank you

 

Hey Jume,

It is simple really except that it defies common sense. The bnk files that you are importing are NOT the name of the patches. I guess they do this because a single bnk file can contain multiple patches. I download a blues bnk file that had 10 patches in it but how would I ever be able to find them in GR4 as the individual names were not listed. Once I discovered that the names weren't the same it was simple. Here's how to find them.....once you have imported the bnk file, go to the preset dialog box that shows all of the factory presets, click on the # sign so it displays them in numerical order not alphabetical. The imported files or new presets will be at the very end. Anything you import, Grig stores those presets after all of the factory presets. Once you have done that, you will now see the names of the imported sounds and can find them alphabetically again. I hope this helps. Send me a PM if you need more help.


Thanks,
Sheldon

 

Hi telewcker... thanks for writing down your findings. I tried all that but still most of stuff that I import I don't find in presets browser... but that probably is due to the fact that the bnk files were created with Guitar Rig Pro and I use GR Essential... maybe this is the case and therefore those patches that use "PRO" modules are just not available to me?

The bundled patches in GR Essential don't sound good to me... it's far from what you hear from GR demo movies. There should be at list some kind of oldies goldies rock'n'roll patch included (e.g. Chuck Barry)

I guess I will have to upgrade in order to include most of those user patches available on this site!

 

Been having some issues trying to locate the user presets.There must be a way to differentiate between the factory & user tones.When we download banks off the library sometimes we dont check the names inside the banks.I wish there would be an update where GR has a user file & a factory file.I'm surprised that this is not present.

 

Hello Plps not sure if this is the right place to ask but.....i have a registered account on guitar rig user forum but when i try to download new presets from the gr user library i can t pass the login procedure ifI use the account info that i ve for the forum.Hope Someone will understand my question...Im not a real english man.
I need a new registration to login in the user library to download some new presets...or maybe I can t since i'm just using the demo version of gr 4?
Thanks all

 

I am having a similar problem in GT4, I am able to pull up the user presets in standalone mode no problem, but when I add GT4 as an insert fx in my DAW (Cubase 5) I can't find the user presets I added anymore.

Any ideas?