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The last years I always found a solution via this forum. That's so great to have such a kind and active community!

But this time I haven't find anything concerning my problem with changing presets / pgmnames in some of my Native Instruments plug-ins. The thing is that I want to switch in Max through my own stored FM8 (hosted in vst~ object) presets. Unfortunately it doesn't work. The Max window reports the following: "pgmnames disabled" - by the way all "params" are displayed correctly in the Max window and there is no problem controlling them from Max in the FM8.

Because of the "disabled" message I checked some of my other NI plug-ins and strangely some work and some don't:

- FM8, Absynth 4, Massive: pgmnames disabled, params ok

With the B4 II and the Pro-53 there is no problem switching between Presets via integers or messages. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? Do I have to check the file search path - and if so, where can I find and define/change that?

My goal is to change through saved FM8 presets that files are located in a project folder (not the default NI preset path). I'm using Max 5.1.9 on a Mac, by the way. I would highly appreciate any help or hints.

But this time I haven't find anything concerning my problem with changing presets / pgmnames  in some of my Native Instruments plug-ins. The thing is that I want to switch in Max through my own stored FM8 (hosted in vst~ object) presets. Unfortunately it doesn't work. The Max window reports the following: "pgmnames disabled" - by the way all "params" are displayed correctly in the Max window and there is no problem controlling them from Max in the FM8.

Because of the "disabled" message I checked some of my other NI plug-ins and strangely some work and some don't:
- FM8, Absynth 4, Massive: pgmnames disabled, params ok
- B4 II, Pro-53: pgmnames ok, params ok

With the B4 II and the Pro-53 there is no problem switching between Presets via integers or messages. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? Do I have to check the file search path - and if so, where can I find and define/change that? 

help-vst-pgmnames-disabled

For what it's worth, I gave up on that approach and I just save/load the entire list of parameters explicitly to files. Those file then become "presets" in disguise.

The method has worked fine for every VST I use and Max ensures that all presets get stored in the right place.

For what it's worth, I gave up on that approach and I just save/load the entire list of parameters explicitly to files. Those file then become "presets" in disguise.
The method has worked fine for every VST I use and Max ensures that all presets get stored in the right place.


Thanks a lot for your help!! So I'll give up on that aswell. Now I stored the params (indices and values) of the FM8 in a coll object - so far so good. I can store all the 1094 params in the coll, but when I read out the list by an uzi object and send the indices including the param values as messages to the vst~, the sound stops and the synth is not playable anymore. Any idea what I might doing wrong? Or do you prefer to work and store with the params names instead of the indices? Could this be the problem? Thanks and best, C

I don't use the coll at all. See the writeup on my blog and in particular the GenericVST object. The abstractions can be downloaded there as well.

http://deskew.com/component/content/article/19/76.html

Thanks again for the hints. I just read your blog entry - very interesting topic! What I couldn't figure out is, if you work with XML/Pattrstorage or something else to store and recall your vst "presets"? Basicely I just want to save 6-8 FM8 settings in Max and want to recall it again. Because FM8 has 1094 params, my goal would be to just store averything and interpolate between the presets that I wanna recall. And as I get it right via your blog, you also work with indeces and not with the params names, right?

I have never figured out the pattr stuff --- it is too bizarre for me (sorry).

In the implementation that's in the current library on my site, I am just saving all parameters to file --- the files are named such that they combine the VST name with the patch name.

okay, thanks a lot for your help! I will check your library again concerning the storage. thanks again!!!

help: vst pgmnames disabled