I recently upgraded from Cubase 11 to Cubase 13 on my new Apple Silicon MacBook. I previously had a bunch of custom presets (Steinberg VSTpresets with ratings, categories, etc…) for my 3rd party synths. Since updating my synths (Apple Silicon version) and updating Cubase to 13 only certain synths still show my custom presets (Sylenth, Serum, etc) and other synths (Predator, all Native Instrument synths, etc…) my custom presets are missing. Do I need to find the folder where they’re saved and have MediaBay do a scan? Again, to be clear I’m NOT talking about the presets that come native to these 3rd party synths, I’m talking about the Cubase presets (VSTpresets) that I created which can be seen in MediaBay.
Windows user, here, but maybe what follows could help…
Do the missing presets appear in MediaBay ? If so, you should be able, with the [Right-click] > Show in explorer command to retrieve them :
As you can see all the custom .vstpresets I made for some of my VSTis are in the same VST3 Presets location and, FWIW, the ones for the selected instrument in the screenshot above are in this path :
C:\Users\[userName]\Documents\VST3 Presets\LennarDigital\Sylenth1
So, on my end at least, they are stored in a direct subfolder of my system default Documents one and, AFAIK, this is the ‘normal’ location : I haven’t attempt to change it. After this, all is about finding the equivalent on a MacOS system and here, I’m not at the best position to help, sadly.
EDIT - And, to answer your MediaBay question, yes, you should rescan your .vstpresets location, once having been found.
Hi thanks for the reply. I rescanned the VST3 folder in MediaBay and my original custom presets were luckily still there.
But now I have a problem that the presets are showing up in MediaBay (I can even play them on my midi keyboard) but they’re NOT showing up in the presets on the actual VST Instrument itself.
Maybe you have something selected in the “Attributes” tab?
So I opened Massive and saved a VST3 Preset which created a different Native Instruments folder (and Massive sub folder) in the VST3 Preset folder section in Finder. I moved the Massive VST Presets from the old Native Instruments folder to the new one and everything works fine now.
Did it create a “Native Instruments” folder instead of the “Native Instruments GmbH” one?
Yes it did!