I just bought a new M2 Max and i cant save any 3rd party preset…
I did the preset folder thing, and for stock plugins this works, but not for 3rd party plugins…
PLEASE HELP
FIX/EDIT: i copied ALL the folders from an old Superduper backup, IT WORKS NOW.
I had the wrong Lib folder or something, in the end i went from Mediabay/User Content/VST Presets/ and did Reveal In Finder on a preset, just to be sure of the location for the presets.
Then dragged the whole VST3 preset folder from a Superduper from the last 10 years into that LOL
Sooooooooo what do i have to do, when i have a new plugin and i dont know the name of the folder that is needed for this trick?
Maybe its an access/permissions thing? Either macOS not giving (part of) Cubase permission to write or macOS not giving 3rd parties from withint Cubase access to write?
It tried xattr and permissions of EVERYTHING inc all the plugins but nothing worked in my case.
Also giving full disk acces in prefs, and turning off that permissions-disk-access thing in startup options (when you hold power when starting) doesnt work.
I feel for Steinie, what will Apple do next year? aaargh
Other than that this machine is INSANE
PS This was another lesson for me to always backup system partitions with Super Duper
If you move from Windows, i just copied ALL the folders from Windows to Mac, is works most of the time…if you can find the folders in Windows go to Mediabay, select any USER vstpreset and right click/Show In Explorer or something
For me, i try to save a preset as Default, than i get an error with the expected path:
-In the right upper corner of the plugin, select the dropdown arrow → Default Preset → Save As Default Preset
-then the error will pop up with the expected path/folder name
-then go to this folder in Library/Audio/Presets and create the missing folder
(it could be YourUserName/Library/Audio/Presets or Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Presets you have to try that out)
Cubase does not have permission to write here, somehow, in my case
This is something that needs to get fixed i guess, its rough with macOS changing every year…
Cubase can’t write the folder structure to the disc. It has no permission to do so. This permission comes from the OS.
Maybe it wasn’t installed as administrator.
Whenever i install a plugin my M1 mac produces a pop up asking for access to the documents folder and I click okay. Thats how my presets get installed. I also gave cubase full disk access.
I found a solution on Mac M2 Pro with Ventura.
Select the “preset” folder found inside Library/Audio/ and change permissions for “staff” to Read & Write.
To get to the user library just use the “alt” key and press “Go” on the Finder Menu for the “library” option to appear.
I tried both solutions but unfortunately it’s doesn’t work for.
I have created the folder inside the Library and i changed the persmissions. I am able now to save the preset as default but when i re-insert a new instance of the same VST (compressor in my case), it goes back to the default state without taken into consideration my saved changes…
I am using in this case only cubase VSTs, Cubase 12.070, Macbook pro M1 Montery 12.&
Oh thanks guys, permissions solved this for me. Mactrix I did notice I have a Preset folder in both my root library and my user library. Hope you’re sorted now.
If your user is an Admin then these are the terminal commands to run to give access to yourself.
You can give yourself Admin on macOS via Settings → Users & Groups. Click the info icon next to user and enable Allow this user to administer this computer.
Explanation: chown is the change ownership command. chmod is change mode “bits” command. The format is user:group so root:staff is root is user owner and staff is group owner. On mac the staff group contains Admin users, so applying staff group ownership and group read write will give your user access.
My original ownership for ~/Library/Audio/Presets is root:staff.
After some searching I figured this out as well.
I had allowed Cubase 13 full disk access in the system settings, but to no avail.
Also, in the ~/Library/Audio/ folder - after running ls -l in the terminal to show the individual disk permissions - all folders where owned by me as an admin, except for “Presets”. Don’t really understand this but yeah - that worked out.
You should also consider adding the -R argument to chown to make the command recursive. This will change all permissions for every file and folder down the line.
