hey, i downloaded the free version of VITAL, which says you get 75 presets, yet when i go to change the preset, nothing comes up. the only sound i have is the initial preset
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I have the same issue. Did you find a fix? I’ve had this issue with entire VSTs (iZotope Iris2/Ozone 9 and Native Instruments Massive) so hoping it is just a few buggy presets.
If I had to guess (haven’t been able to dl vital yet bc of the “virus” issue). If the presets come separately downloaded there is often a folder in documents where you store .fxp / preset files for vsts. I probably shouldn’t answer blind, but that would be my guess.
For me is the Same Problem. No Presets. I think because my Firewall blocks it.
Can anybody say me wich URL/Server i must open in Firewall for the Vital VST please?
Allow in you firewall all connection to the application “Vital” and start it in standalone mode. It will download automatically
If you see only links in firewall, the links looks like this
“https://vitalpublic.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/previews/Databroth Pack 1/Abstractor.mp4”
I just spent a half hour attempting to locate and make the presets be available and working. No luck. Reading the other comments, this seems to be an ongoing issue with a lot of people. The fact that this is not easier and has not been tested and solved by the vital team is going to be responsible for them losing a lot of customers, as this has been a waste of my time. 
It’s a free synth, maybe you can spend 5 minutes letting it access the internet to dl the presets or manually downloading them without that being excessive.
Thanks Herman, I understand that it’s free and i’m grateful for software like this as i support these companies, but I have searched for hours attempting to find out how to find them or download them with no luck so far.
They’re available on the same download page where you download the synth installer after logging in to vital.audio, at the bottom of the page.
Also, if you let Vital access the internet it should download them automatically.
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Hello and thanks for offering a free version of this cool synth. 
I’ve been an audio engineer for over 30 years and own a lot of audio hardware and software. I have spent hours watching videos and searching forums attempting to get the sounds to load into Vital with zero luck. I can see the soundbank folder on my hd with the presets, but when I go to choose the “import sound banks” dropdown menu, I can see the presets on my hd, but they are completely greyed out and the plugin cannot recognize them to import them no matter what I do. I have also read in the forums where you instruct people to go to the website or that they should download automatically, but that has not been my experience. Thanks for any assistance
What’s your OS? If on windows can you go to C:\Users\YOUR NAME\Documents\Vital and make a screen grab ?
like so :
yes: what’s the OS ?
on mac i’d suspect a permission problem
i.e.: the directory in question does not have the correct perimssion settings…
well…: remotely glass onion reading…
You import .vitalbank files through that menu. If it’s a folder that has another folder called “presets” in it, just copy the folder along all its subfolders to your Vital data directory.
So say you have a folders
<bank>/Presets
<bank>/LFOs
etc...
then you copy the <bank> folder to the Vital data directory.
This was the solution for not found presets.
Logging in to the software, then it downloads the presets.
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