EVERYTHING WORKS! ...EXCEPT PRESETS! please help me.

[Chazrox]

Hey guys. Can somebody help me figure out whats going on? I've tried for 2 days to figure this out on my own so here I am. I've made a few plugins successfully already but for some reason my presets wont transfer over to the actual plugin when its loaded into Ableton. The weird thing about it is that the "add , rename , delete" options are not visible on the exported build either but they're there in HISE. Within HISE the presets correctly load when I close and re-open the project if that helps at all. I cant figure this out. Im not a coder at all. I've managed to figure out this much on my own so far but im stuck. Please help!!
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[Chazrox]

I checked all of the "true, false" options properly for the preset browser but they still wont show. To be clear, it shows when im in HISE but when I export something weird happens.

[Lindon]

@Chazrox are your presets in the presets folder for the installed plugin(not HISE project folder)?

[Chazrox]

@Lindon I was under the impression that this was done automatically because other plugins i've exported had them in there already without me having to do any extra file moving. I did check the presets folder in Library/Audio/Presets and there were none there. not even for the other plugins that i've installed that are working properly with their respective presets embedded into them. To me it looks like a build error of some sort. The error im getting says something about "parrallelizing" or something like that.

here are photos of my presets working on one and not working on my most recent build.
working:

Not working:

notice how the other options for preset menus are present like "save preset, more" but the add buttons on the bottom and my presets are not available.

[Lindon]

@Chazrox copy some presets into the correct folder and see if they show up in your compiled plugin

-- also what do you think the correct folder is?

[Chazrox]

@Lindon can you please give me the correct directory to you best knowledge just to make sure I do it right the first time then I can get right back to you about it. I know my presets are saved in my project build folder and I can grab them out of there. I just need to know the correct file destination please.

[Lindon]

@Chazrox what OS are you on?

[Chazrox]

@Lindon correct folder HD/Library/Audio/Presets /

correct folder?

Im on Mac OS Sequoia 15.2

[Chazrox]

What I would like to continue doing is exporting an empty preset browser, then create the presets while in Abelton to later import back into HISE as 'Factory Presets' embedded into the plugin. I dont know if there's a more efficient way, thats just how I prefer. Its just this last plugin is giving me hell. Been tryna figure this out for a week before I found this forum. Thank God I found you guys! lol

[Lindon]

@Chazrox said in EVERYTHING WORKS! ...EXCEPT PRESETS! please help me.:

@Lindon correct folder HD/Library/Audio/Presets /

correct folder?

Im on Mac OS Sequoia 15.2

nope...

~User/Library/Application Support/Your company/Your product/User Presets

[Chazrox]

@Lindon OMG I LOVE YOU! HAHA

I just added the folders to that location and the plugin showed all the options I was looking for! Bless You! Is there any reason why I had to do this manually this time as opposed to my other plugins I've exported? Is it a matter of something in the project settings or something?? Omg I cant believe it was that simple of a fix.

[Lindon]

@Chazrox no idea why they are not copied over....youd need to investigate...

[Chazrox]

@Lindon I've been investigating all WEEK! lol Im so grateful you atleast were able to help me get them in there whether I understand how it was done or not. I will continue to investigate and i'll come back to this thread if I eve figure out what happened exactly. Thank You greatly!

[oskarsh]

@Chazrox have you checked this option?

[Chazrox]

@Chazrox I'll make sure I have that checked. Does that imply that the 'user' is the 'end user'?, not me?

[oskarsh]

@Chazrox no this means that when u load the plugin for the first time it will check in a folder if the presets are there if not they will put them there. You are also the end user it there is no difference.

Usually this is needed when you want to have the presets ready when you open the plugin. If you have this not checked the presets will not be installed on first launch.

[Chazrox]

@oskarsh ok Thanks. I was having problems because for some reason it wouldnt load that even when I had that option checked. For some reason, manually creating a folder in that location just reset everything and it works normally again. Not sure what happened but thanks for the advice!