Synth1 I lost the presets

[musikbear]

:p exactly 2 - but its chunc is encoded - i cant get anything from it - draw a blanc im afraid :/

[caLRo]

Well now I am starting to become confused.

But you don't have to decode it, if you use the right text editor. For me on linux some pdf viewer did the trick.

But caLRo said, its not stored in the lmms file.

What I meant was that Synth1 extracts the presets from the zipbanks to a temp folder, and uses them from there. It cannot manipulate the preset without extracting, just like you cannot edit a file that is stored in a compression format (zip, rar, etc.) without extracting it first.

But I have no idea how Synth1 or LMMS stores path information that points to the presets used. Either Synth1 or LMMS should have given an error message if a preset wasn't found. That message should inlcude the path in which it was searching for the preset. I believe this is how some DAWs like FL Studio work.

When I first opened the old project, I did get an error, that it could not load the vst, with a path, but the path was not complete, and had points .... in it
I assume this was because the path was too long, for the space it had, to display the path.

That error is probably related to the VST plugin itself, not the presets. It could not find the .dll file in the path that was saved in the project file.

LMMS gives messages for missing VST plugins, but stays silent about missing presets, soundfonts, and samples. I think it would be helpful to have messages for those as well.