Hello.
I am using the latest version of Cubase 15 Pro on a Windows 10 machine.
I also have Cubase v12Pro, v13Pro and v14Pro installed on the same computer, enabling comparisons between these.
I recently installed the Plugin Alliance Elyssia Alpha Compressor v2 and once the plugin was loaded in CB15Pro I found that there were no plugin presets available in the plugin preset previewer.
I have looked on my PC and have confirmed that the folder …Documents\VST3Plugins|Plugin Alliance\elyssia alpha compressor v2 exists and there are actually 38 presets visible to me inside that folder.
I don’t know of any way within the plugin GUI to direct the plugin to find those presets.
So I explored the older versions of CB and was pleasantly surprised when I loaded this plugin in CB12Pro. All of the plugin presets were available to be within the plugin menu.
I then tried CB13Pro and CB14Pro and sadly - just like CB15Pro - no presets are visible within the plugin!
I did try reinstalling the plugin but this did not change the outcome: Presets are all visible in the plugin in CB12Pro but never in v13,14 or 15. I am inclined to think that the plugin is correctly installed if CB12 is able to run it correctly. Can anyone help debug this mystery?
I am fortunate to have a few additional Plugin Alliance plugins that I have not used in a long time so I tried looking at all of them and their presets in all the versions of CB that I mentioned above. All of my Plugin Alliance plugins do list folders filled with presets at the VST3 folder mentioned further above.
In CB12Pro all of my Plugin Alliance plugins display the plugin presets within the plugin browser menu. This includes plugins like Bx_Masterdeck_Pro and Bx_console_AMEK200. None of these display presets in CB13, 14 or 15?
Strangely, there is a small subset of Plugin Alliance plugins that do display their presets in all versions of Cubase. These include ‘delay 2500’, ‘saturator’, ‘subsynth’ and ‘cleansweepPro’.
So in summary, since Cubase 13 most of my Plugin Alliance plugins dont show any presets but a few of them do. All seem to work perfectly in Cubase12Pro.
Reinstalling a plugin did not change this outcome.
How can I get these plugins to have their presets in CB 13,14 and 15?