[2.0.30] Save Archive - VST Viewer - No multi PDF export [Solved]

VST Live
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Installed Software (Windows 11 Pro) VST Live 2.0.30 and VST Viewer 1.0.63.

When you use the “Save Archive” Function non of the PDF-Files that are used in a global VST-Viewer Window are included with the exported files.
That means the VST project will not work the same way on the remote/target Computer (rehearsal/show) as on the Build-Computer.

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Screenshot of the “Save Archive” folder.

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… sorry I forget to mention that. You need to select all songs before you are doing the archive process. This is a “new feature” and “old” projects do need that little help. New projects will be fine.

Better?
Michael.

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… I did a quick test.

  1. Start VL 2.0.29, New Project
  2. Created a Global Part, Added a Module and loaded the VST Viewer
  3. Open the VST Viewer editor and load a PDF_A file
  4. Add a “New Song 2” and add PDF_B
  5. Add another “New Song 3” and add PDF_C
  6. Check Song and their PDF file fine.
  7. Select Song_A and save it

… install VST Live 2.0.30 and VST Viewer 1.0.63

  1. Load Project
  2. Open VST Viewer Editor
  3. Select “New Song 2”
  4. Select “New Song 3”
  5. Select first song
  6. “Menu / File / Save Archive …” and select empty folder

All fine. For you, too?

/Michael

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Hi @Spork ,

My old project was a VL 2.0.29 Project that I saved yesterday after installing VST Live 2.0.30 and VST Viewer 1.0.63 as a new file.

In VST Live 2.0.30 i did

  1. Load previews saved file
  2. Opend VST Viewer
  3. Select Song 1 and Check the PDF and then save it (save Song)
  4. Select Song 2and Check the PDF and then save it (save Song)
  5. Select Song 3 and Check the PDF and then save it (save Song)
  6. do this until I reach the Setlist end
  7. Save the Project “File/Save”
  8. Menu / File / Save Archive - select empty Folder…
  9. No PDF-Files

Is there something I´m doing wrong or I need to do further?

/Detlef

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Hi @Spork ,

I did further “research” because the old project won’t work that way.
So I did a test creating a new project using my saved Songs.

  1. Create a new project in 2.0.30
  2. Imported with “load song” the previous saved songs into the setlist.
  3. Then I created a global Part and checked the PDF-Files that are already were included in the “old” project and saved with the songs (Song - Save Song) and they all worked perfect.
  4. Then I saved the project under a new name (File - Save as)
  5. Finaly, I created a new Archive “File - Save Archive” in an empty Folder
  6. Boom there they are - a new Folder appears “plugassets” with an subfolder that contains the PDF Files.

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So, with a new project it works but not with (my) old project but I would really prefer that it would work with an old project because there are so many settings that I don´t remember and I don´t want to figure out during rehearsals.

Grüße
Detlef

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Just a thought. Maybe the PDF export doesn’t work with my project because it contains multiple setlists and you can only select the songs in the active setlist before saving the archive, and the unselected songs prevent the export. With one (new) Setlist everything is finde. I don’t know.

But I’ve reached the end of my testing. If it doesn’t work, then it doesn’t work. What a pity! :cry:

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… Question : Have you selected the active songs in your project? You have to do it only once before you are doing an archive. That should work, right? After that selection process, save the project again and you don’t need to select all songs again.
… yes, if you have inactive songs in your SETLIST, and they are not selected once, their PDF file will not be exported.

You have to understand that the VST Viewer is a black box for VST Live. The Export of Multi-Files is new for VST Viewer and VST Live. And the VST Viewer need to tell the host that it has a file for a song. Then VST Live can save the file in an archive.

See you,
Michael.

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I tested again:

  1. I opend my original (2.0.27) project and clicked/selected every single Song in the active setlist to check if the right pdf is shown in the VST Viewer Window. All good so far!
  2. Then I saved the entire project “File / Save”
  3. Then I saved an archive “File / Save Archive”
  4. No PDF export (here)

Ja ich habe verstanden, dass ich jeden Song in der aktive Setliste anklicken muss (ich habe sogar zusätzlich in einem Test das PDF im Viewer Window angeklickt) dann das Projekt gespeichert und ein Archiv gespeichert. Keine PDF Dokumente.

Hinweis: Ich benutze hier einen brandneuen extrem leistungsfähigen Gaming PC als Audio-Workstation den ich gerade erst aufgesetzt habe. Alles (!) andere funktioniert hier absolut einwandfrei.
Ich kann auch ein neues Projekt anlegen und Songs importieren die ich aus meinem original Project gespeichert habe, dann werden mit dem Archiv auch PDF-Dokumente exportiert. Nur leider nicht aus meinem original Projekt. Sorry für die Umstände. Ich möchte wirklich, dass diese Funktion hier PDF´s exportiert.

P.S: Finding am Rande. In einem neuen Projekt, in das ich die vorhandenen Songs reingeladen habe, wird zwar die VST Viewer Fenster “Position” gespeichert, aber nicht die Fenster-Größe. Die muss ich jedes Mal aufs Neue so einstellen, dass ich die enthaltenen Dokumente (A4) ganze sehen kann.
VG Detlef

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Hi Detgyver,

then we have only one chance. We need access to your full project. Can you please create an archive and give it to us? Send me PM.

See you,
Michael.

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Hi Michael,

I uploaded the zipped project to an share Google-Drive and granted you access rights.

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I could test 2.0.30 yesterday in an Live-Setup and now (with a newly on 2.0.30 build new project) all my Songs that I build in earlier versions work with the VST Viewer 1.0.63 version and export the used PDF-Files and they are also working on the remote/target Laptop we use for the Live-Music Setup!
Thanks again for the great Support.
P.S: The Lyrics are working with 2.0.30 also great with LiveMods! :wink:

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