Hello! I searched the forum and didn’t really find an exact answer to this question:
Is there a way within Vital to change the ‘Style’ of a pre-existing preset? There are numerous third-party presets that do not have a style assigned or the style assigned is not accurate. I see you can rename a preset but any other metadata seems to be locked out. I did find an utility created by SlavaCat118, but am wondering if there is a feature within Vital?
You can just resave the preset to have a new style. However, there is a bug in the 1.5.5 Windows version where changing a presets style wont register within Vital. If it really bothers you, you can always edit the file directly, or downgrade.
The utility I made–I’m assuming EasyEdits–was for editing the preset info, allowing for easier custom styles, adding prefixes to names, all for multiple presets at a time; essentially a batch info editor for Vital presets. I never finished it, but it is functional and also very buggy and the coding is absolute spaghetti so I wouldn’t trust it with my own preset library. I may rework it soon once I finish the python module I’m working on for Vital presets, but for now, I don’t plan on finishing the current version.
Thank you, SlavaCat! Yes, I see now that saving the preset creates a copy with the new style I specified. I then just have to delete the original. When you said “you can always edit the file directly”, I assume you meant in a text editor? With this in mind, I tested that option and confirmed that I can edit the preset file, but as you said, Vital doesn’t recognize the change. I guess its code only recognizes the style only on first read of the preset file and doesn’t rescan subsequently. Vital must keep a preset database file somewhere. I am curious why most synths don’t seem to make it easy to edit pre-existing preset metadata within the synth itself. Seems like it would be so easy to do…
I ran into the same issue. I also wanted to modify preset metadata and ended up building a small Qt application to handle those changes.
After editing the presets, I had to create a .vitalbank file from the preset folder and re-import it into Vital. Without this step, the updated preset information was not reflected in the preset browser.
So simply modifying the .vital files is not sufficient. It looks like Vital is using some kind of cache for preset metadata that doesn’t get refreshed automatically.
The sources are available for free: GitHub - markus-fischbacher/vital-preset-editor · GitHub