Acoustica Mixcraft 8 VSTI Help Needed

[jlouvar]

Rats, I was hoping that might solve the problem... I may need to contact Akai.

[jlouvar]

Okay, so far I've got Hybrid, Journeys/Entangled Species, ME80v2.4, MT-PowerDrumKit, and Twist2 all working perfect in VIP.

But only 1 out of 264 presets for Acoustica Instruments, 1 out of 14 presets for Studio Drums, 1 out of 66 presets for Expanded, and 1 out of 10 presets for Pianassimo.

But I think since all the presets are showing in VIP with 1 preset working for each... I'll eventually figure it out.

Oh, and I still need to find and load NightLife.

[jlouvar]

UPDATE: It seems for VIP to be completely compatible with Mixcraft and 3rd party 64-bit VST’s, Akai needs to make their VIP 64-bit plugin compatible with both 32 & 64 bit VST plugins.

Oh well, the Akai MPK249 (without VIP) can still select and play Mixcraft’s VST presets and control settings, knobs, faders, transport and etc.

EDIT: This was a good learning experience.

[jlouvar]

Hmm, I just found out from Acoustica Greg that the Acoustica Virtual Instruments are indeed 64-bit... So back to the drawing board again, lol.

[outteh]

Read again what Greg told you. The classic VST’s are 32 bit.

[Acoustica Greg]

Read again what Greg told you. The classic VST’s are 32 bit.

Classic Effects are 32-bit, made by a company that will never update them.

Acoustica Instruments, Acoustica Expanded Instruments, and Acoustica Studio Drums are 64-bit.

So are the Acoustica effects. (In 64-bit Mixcraft, of course).

[outteh]

Could the issue be that some of the presets for the Acoustica Instruments use the classic effects?

[jlouvar]

Could the issue be that some of the presets for the Acoustica Instruments use the classic effects?

Hmm, I don't know... It's very confusing, as I'm having a very difficult time trying to get it all to work. Also after using the VIP_x64 plugin within Mixcraft sometimes it takes a long time to close Mixcraft too.

[jlouvar]

Read again what Greg told you. The classic VST’s are 32 bit.

Classic Effects are 32-bit, made by a company that will never update them.

Acoustica Instruments, Acoustica Expanded Instruments, and Acoustica Studio Drums are 64-bit.

So are the Acoustica effects. (In 64-bit Mixcraft, of course).

Thank you Greg... Where on my C drive are the Acoustica Virtual Instruments Maps?

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Maps? Here's where the presets are located:

Virtual instrument preset folder:
%appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\InstPresets

Effect presets folder:
%appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\FX

Maybe your device can't read those?

Greg

[jlouvar]

Hmm, I just changed the User Map Folder path, and no luck... so maybe it can't read them.

[Thomas]

Hi,

Maps? Here's where the presets are located:

Virtual instrument preset folder:
%appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\InstPresets

Effect presets folder:
%appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\FX

Maybe your device can't read those?

Greg

Greg,
I have the FX presets but my Instpresets folder is empty. Is this normal?

[Acoustica Greg]

HI,

Whoops, my mistake. That's the folder where custom presets are stored. (And it's the one most people ask about).

The factory virtual instrument presets are here:

%programdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\InstPresets


Greg

[jlouvar]

I have files in my Preset and FX folders.

So I just posted on the Akai Forum asking for help.

Thank you outteh/Tom for posting the Akai Forum link here.

[Thomas]

HI,

Whoops, my mistake. That's the folder where custom presets are stored. (And it's the one most people ask about).

The factory virtual instrument presets are here:

%programdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\InstPresets


Greg

The custom part crossed my mind. But I don't have that folder in programdata. I have "MetaPresets7", which seems to have instrument presets in it. Is that the one?