megawattt wrote:HYPNAGOGIA,early on in this thread you mentioned that saving and recalling worked fine for EKS-9 and EKS-9 Pro, please can you let me know what actions you took to get it to work for you ?
By that, I meant just doing Save preset thing. Actual exporting and importing presets doesn't, as it doesn't change any of the controls, nor does it affects the sound played by either version of EKS.
so far the details in this thread states that this problem has been encountered in more than one DAW, Reaper and Acid
Acid exhibits the same problem... initially. On deeper inspection it's revealed that, while it doesn't change parameters or sound played upon importing the preset, changing to some other preset in the list and going back to the imported one fixes it. So, in Acid, it's only an initial problem. But considering that Acid haven't got an update in 7 years, it's understandable why something like that happens there.
i am not being awkward but to me this all points to an issue with the EKS-9 and EKS-9 Pro plugins
It doesn't, at least not entirely. EKS doesn't have capacity to manipulate (save/load/export/import) presets being that it doesn't have a preset management system on its own. That's all tasked to the host - in this case Reaper. If it was entirely EKS' fault, the exported preset probably wouldn't work in other hosts. On the other hand, Reaper doesn't seem to have this problem with other synths. So, indication is that it's probably a combination of both Reaper and EKS just not working quite right together.
it is for this reason that i would be hesitant to make a report on the Reaper forum
Imagine you had a lamp that didn't work. You put in another bulb and it works. You put the bulb that didn't work in another lamp and it works there. Now you have no idea whether it's the lamp or the bulb, being that both seem to work, just not with each other. So why wouldn't you contact both manufacturers that made the lamp and the bulb and let them figure out what's happening? At least you'd get the most effort put into it by the most amount of people, and in the end, someone will possibly figure out what's going on.
the only problem i see with that is that they would require a fully functional copy of EKS-9 and EKS-9 Pro to test the save/recall function
That's actually not a problem. Richard collaborated with other devs in the past by giving them NFR (not for resale) licensed software when some problem needed to be solved. It's not a problem at all.
i hope that i don't sound like a whiner ( I am a happy person really
) i think it is the principle that i bought this plugin that sits alongside my freeware plugins, the freeware plugins work fine but i am performing a "Workaround" on the payware plugin.
I don't see how it's a "workaround" when it's integrated part of Reason. You just save preset, name it, and you can use it normally. Hell, I'd say Reason's way might be the easiest one I've seen so far - just select from the list and it's right there. But out of curiosity, is there a benefit of doing export/import, instead of save/select-from-list?
We understand the frustration. Many of us had paid for software that didn't work out of the box. Have a bit of patience and it'll get sorted
Richard already acknowledged it on the beta forum, so give it a bit time and then follow up after a while if you don't hear any news about this.