Bug reports & end-user support for Akai's MPC Software 'controllers' including the new MPC Studio 2, the MPC Touch, MPC Renaissance & original MPC Studio and MPC StudioB lack.
By BenKissBox Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:19 pm
Hello all,
I have installed a VST plugin in my MPC project, it loads correctly, I can see it in Edit window, so everything seems fine... apart that I can not find how to load a VST bank or preset in my plugin (which stays completely silent because of that...)
I looked everywhere in the manual : no details given about the way to use the VST plugins and load VST presets and banks in it
I have a lot of FXB files for my VST plugins, but I can not find how to put them in the plugin when it is loaded in the MPC project.
Does anybody know where I can find this information (and more globally, where I can find serious information about the VST support within MPC Studio, the user's manual being VERY VERY light about this... and to be honnest, I bought the MPC Studio because it was supporting VST)
Thanks by advance for your help
Benoit
By BenKissBox Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:19 pm
I finally understood today how Akai implemented the VST bank support in the MPC. It's working, but in a different way than on many other VST hosts.

- MPC saves only a VST bank when you save the project. So the plugin state is saved, but you can not export a VST bank to use it in another plugin instance (but at least, the MPC reloads the last state when you re-open a project)

- MPC loads the VST bank from its internal save state, not from a FXB file. So, your plugin returns to the last state when you reopen the project, but you can't import a FXB file in a plugin in your project :WTF: (more precisely, you can do it only if the plugin has an import button - not very common, since it should be handled bythe VST host, not by the plugin itself)

- if your plugin does not have a default bank at initialization, you are doomed... because you can't load any bank to start your plugin :x

- if you close MPC without calling "Save" menu first, and you have played with the VST user interface... all changes are lost. Workaround : always call "Save" menu before closing... otherwise, say goodbye to your last created sound

Akai should have added this capability, otherwise many plugins will be useless within MPC