I was watching a tutorial video on youtube the other day
and noticed at 2:40 the presenter opened the horizontal zoom control menu and most of the presets were missing (Mr. Smith didn’t seem to notice). I remembered that those very presets were (are) also missing on my system (See pg. 60 of the latest Op Man).
Since Updating to 8.0.10, I though I’d recheck, but they’re still missing.
I looked at the RAMVSTPresets.xml both in the intallation folders as well as the Appdata folders and found they were missing in the Appdata version, but included in the Installation version. So I copied the file across (renaming the original), restarted Cubase and they were still missing, plus, the newly copied file suddenly had a smaller filesize (= to the original) and when opened found the presets had been deleted from the xml file.
So I was wondering how many users are missing these presets in C8.0.5 or C8.0.10, and did you update or install the ISO for 8.0.5 (prior to 8.0.10 update)?
ok, you’ve suffered enough, felt like you left a cliff hanger. Mystery of the missing zoom presets! looks like a job for Kojak
and yes it is the same on mine - no presets. maybe…a little lesson from steinberg - make your own presets damn it, (lets see if the moaners figure this one out)!!!
seriously though, they were useful, but i think my work flow has taken another route since C8 so didn’t notice much
OK I can confirm – the horizontal (time) zoom is not the one I use the most though, and the vertical zoom is OK. I updated using the smaller download. On 8.0.20 now and they’re still missing.
Confirmed that in 8.5.10 the only horizontal presets are full and to locators. Easily worked around though, using the overview? Also, now a click and vertical drag on the ruler zooms in/out, which some people hate, but I love it because I’m used to it from WaveLab.
I looked in an old copy for Cubase 6 - Sure enough, I found the old presets in the code. But I can’t find any instructions on what to do with them. I could copy the lines and paste them into the RAMPresets.xml file for the 8.5 installation I’m using, but I’m scared I’ll screw it up. How do I know if I’m putting them in the right section of the code?
First, with a project open, I created a dummy zoom preset (doesn’t matter what the zoom factor is, just give it a unique name, I called it “tempKK”), then closed Cubase. (Note: evidently, changes to the presets do not actually get written to the XML file until Cubase is closed, at least that’s what happened on my system).
Then I opened RAMPresets.xml with notepad, and did a search (Ctrl-F) for “tempKK”. I found this section of code:
I don’t know why the newer XML file used “obj” rather than “item” for its list items, but it seems to work with the older code inserted. (I’ll report back here if it seems to cause any problems down the road)
I compared the RAMPresets.xml in my %APPDATA%\Steinberg\Cubase 8.5_64\Presets folder with that found in %PROGRAMFILES%\Steinberg\Cubase\Presets and noticed there appears to be an extra line under the item MAudioPartEditControllerZoom, so I see e.g.