Synth Preset Pack Installation Guide Area

Thank you for purchasing your product. Please follow this step-by-step installation guide to get your specific software ready for use:

 Please note:

• These are general installation instructions and you may not find all of the below formats within your purchased pack.
• Scroll down to locate the title of the file format (s) you have purchased and learn how to install your software.

File Formats

Ableton Live Pack

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Create a folder on your computer to install your live packs.

3. Within Ableton Live click the ‘Add Folder’ option on the left pane and locate the folder you have chosen. This shortcut will enable you to load sample packs quickly and easily.

4. Double-click the ‘.alp’ file that you have downloaded and you will then be prompted to choose a location for the install to select the folder path that you linked to Ableton in the previous step (3).

5. The files are now ready for use!

Apple Loops

1. Download the .zip folder provided, and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Logic and locate your Apple Loops folder (press ‘O’ on your computer’s qwerty keyboard) your newly purchased Apple Loops can be dragged and dropped/copied here, as shown in the picture below:

3. Select the ‘Move to Loops Folder’ option, and the loops will be added to your Apple Loops Library.

Note: If you have a high number of sample packs, make a note of the specific prefix that you wish to use e.g ‘FC2’ - this will enable you to filter the results when searching for specific samples.

4. The files are now ready for use!

EXS24 (Logic)

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Copy the Sampler Patches and Sounds & FX folders to Logic’s ‘Sampler Instruments’ folder- located via - username/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments

3. You may wish to create a ‘User’ folder like the one shown above open Logic, as well as the EXS24 sampler to a software track, before selecting the ‘…’ tab loading the EXS24 patches window (as shown below).

4. The files are now ready for use!

Native Instruments Kontakt

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Load an instance of Kontakt, and click the ‘Files’ browser tab to navigate to your purchased sample pack.

3. Locate the main Kontakt sub-folder within the ‘Sampler Patches’ folder you can locate and select the patch that you wish to use via the lower window tab (as shown in the image above e.g ‘DRT_Kicks.nki’).

4. The software is now ready for use!

Halion

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Halion within your DAW and navigate to the ‘Browser’ tab, which will display your computer’s file system. Locate your purchased sample pack from the computer destination that you saved it to, and select the desired patch within the Halion ‘Sampler Patches’ folder.

Note: It is advisable to resave the patch, so that you will not have to repeat this procedure.

3. The files are now ready for use!

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Maschine – Maschine Packs

Maschine has a slightly different install process depending on the version you have. Please follow the guidelines below and see the additional notes if you are experiencing difficulties.

Maschine 2.0 Video Installation Guide 

(Note: Post Dubstep & Future Garage is used as the example).

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Maschine and select the ‘File’ ‘Preferences’ and then ‘Library’ options, before clicking the ‘User’ tab.

3. Click ‘Add’ to open the file browser and locate the main pack folder which contains the pack’s Projects, Groups and Samples, for example ‘Post Dubstep & Future Garage’.

4. Once the folder has been located, you will need to add an alias name for the pack click under ‘Alias’, and type the exact name of the pack including numbers, capitals and symbols.

Important Notes:

• The alias should be written as Post Dubstep & Future Garage
• The alias should not be written as post dubstep and future garage

5. Now close the Preferences window and you will see the pack within your user library!

6. The files are now ready for use!

Maschine 1.8 Video Installation Guide

(Please note: Skip to 2.02 mins when referring to the above video.)

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Maschine and select the ‘File’ ‘Preferences’ and then ‘Library’ options, before clicking the ‘User’ tab.

3. Click ‘Add’ to open the file browser and locate the main pack folder which contains the pack’s Projects, Groups and Samples, for example ‘Post Dubstep & Future Garage’.

Important Notes:

• The alias should be written as Post Dubstep & Future Garage
• The alias should not be written as post dubstep and future garage

4. Click under the ‘Alias’ tab alongside the pack and type in the exact name of the pack including numbers, capitals and symbols.

5. Now close the Preferences window and you will see the pack within your user library!

6. The files are now ready for use!

Installation Problem?

If you have previously installed a Maschine Pack and the groups or projects are not loading, please ensure that you have installed the correct pack for your version of Maschine.

Also, please check that you have created an alias to the sample pack so that Maschine can locate the projects:

• The alias should be written as Post Dubstep & Future Garage
• The alias should not be written as post dubstep and future garage

Please note: If you do not type the exact name of the pack, it will not install correctly.

1. You may need to uninstall the pack entirely from Maschine before reinstalling it, to prevent any cross-referencing.

2. To do this, go to Maschine’s ‘Preferences’ area before selecting the ‘Library’, and then ‘User’ tabs.

3. Remove any previous location path to the Maschine pack (s) and then close Maschine, before creating a new project (to clear the history).

4. Quit Maschine, re-open it and then re-follow the instructions from step 2. of the ‘Maschine 1.8 Installation Guide’.

NN-XT

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Locate and open NN-XT within Reason and click the ‘Load Patch’ option navigate to your new sample pack and load the desired patch from the NN-XT ‘Sampler Patches’ folder.

3. The files are now ready for use!

Reason Refills

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. It is recommended to create a ‘Refills’ folder on your computer before copying/saving all the purchased Refill files into it. Once Reason is open, load a device and open the instrument/effect browser window.

3. Locate the ‘Refills’ folder and drag and drop it from the browser window to ‘Locations and Favourites‘, which is located within the left-side section you will now need to move your purchased Refills to this folder.

4. The files are now ready for use!

Rex Files

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Rex files can be loaded in Reason’s ‘Dr. OctoRex’ player. Simply click the ‘Browse Patch’ tab and locate the file you wish to use. You can load up to 8x Rex files into Dr.OctoRex’s available slots.

3. The files are now ready for use!

Midi Files

 1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. MIDI files are note sequences which can be imported, edited and transposed in your DAW. Importing MIDI files will vary between programs - some will allow you to drag and drop directly into the sequencer, e.g Ableton, Studio One. If this is not the case, you will find that ‘File Import MIDI File’ option will allow you to load each MIDI file within Ableton Reason, Cubase, Logic, FL Studio, Renoise and most other popular DAW platforms.

3. Assign an instrument or VST a MIDI track and then you will then be able to use the file (s) as you wish.

4. The MIDI files are now ready for use!

VST Presets

Absynth

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Absynth within your DAW, and click the ‘File’ tab that is located at the top-left of the plug-in’s interface.

3. Select the ‘Browser’ tab, and look in the ‘Directories’ window to locate your computer’s ‘User Library Directories’.

Note: The library folder locations should look as shown below:

Macintosh:

•  HD/Users/John/Documents/Native Instruments/Absynth 5/Sounds

 Windows:

•  C:\UsersJohn\Documents\Native Instruments\Absynth 5\Sounds

4. Locate the above (related Mac/PC) directory on your computer, and place your presets within the folder.

5. Click ‘Rebuild DB’ located at the bottom right, and you will then see the Bank Name of the product appear on the left side of the ‘Attributes/Browser’ windows.

6. The presets are now ready for use!

FM8

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open FM8 within your DAW > click the ‘File’ option that is located at the top of the plugin’s interface.

3. Select the ‘Options’ tab > click the ‘Database’ tab and look at ‘User Library Directories’.

Please note: The folder location should look like the folder paths shown below:

Macintosh:

• HD/Users/John/Documents/Native Instruments/FM8/Sounds

Windows :

•  C:\Users\John\Documents\Native Instruments\FM8\Sounds

4. Locate the above (related - Mac/PC) directory on your computer, and place your presets within the folder. Click the ‘Rebuild DB’ option that is located on the right-hand side, and you will then see the Bank Name of the product appear on the left side of the ‘Attributes/Browser’ windows.

5. The presets are now ready for use!

Massive

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Massive within your DAW and click the ‘File’ option that is located at the top of the plug-in’s interface.

3. Select the ‘Options’ tab.

4. Click the ‘Browser’ option to locate your computer’s ‘User Library Directories’ area.

Note: The folder location should look as shown below:

Macintosh:

• HD/Users/John/Documents/Native Instruments/Massive/Sounds

Windows:

• C:\Users\John\Documents\Native Instruments\Massive\Sounds

5. Locate the above (related Mac/PC) directory on your computer, and place your presets within the folder. Click the ‘Rebuild DB’ option that is located on the right-hand side, and you will then see the Bank Name of the product appear on the left side of the ‘Attributes/Browser’ windows.

6. The presets are now ready for use!

Massive X

Importing a Preset

1. Select the preset file from your hard drive that you want to import.

2. Drag and drop the file onto the MASSIVE X user interface. The preset file is now saved in the User Presets folder.

Omnisphere

1. Download the zip folder from your User Account.

Note: Ensure that your Omnisphere plugin is not running when downloading the zip folder.

2. Double-click the zip folder to extract and reveal its contents.

3. Open Omnisphere and click on the 'Utility' menu to select the 'Install .omnisphere' option from the drop-down selection.

4. Select your Audiority SoundBank file (which in this instance is 'Audiority Driving Force.omnisphere') and wait for the installation to complete.

5. The Audiority library will appear within the Directory menu, and is now ready for use within Omnisphere.

Legacy Installation

1. If you are installing the Legacy Omnisphere v1 presets, you'll need to locate and open the 'Legacy' presets folder that is available within the zip folder of your product download.

2. Double-click the preset folder (which in this instance is named 'audiority_driving_force.zip' file) to extract and reveal its contents > this action will create a new folder with the name of the soundbank e.g 'audiority_driving_force.' 

3. Drag and Drop/Copy the entire folder into your Omnisphere Presets folder. 

For PC Computers, the preset folder path is:

• Windows: C:\ProgramData\Spectrasonics\STEAM\Omnisphere\Settings Library\Patches

Note: Program Data is usually located within a hidden folder, so it will be faster to simply Copy and Paste or type the folder path into your computer's address bar.

For Mac Computers, the preset folder path is:

• Mac OSX: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Spectrasonics/STEAM/Omnisphere/Settings Library/Patches

4.  Open Omnisphere from your VST selection, and refresh the Patch Library by clicking the circle arrow icon located at the bottom side of the VST's Patch Browser.

5. You will now be able to locate and open your Audiority SoundBank via the 'Directory' menu of Omnisphere's browser section.

Predator

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4. The presets are now ready for use!

Serum

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Serum within your DAW > you need to begin by loading the patches into the ‘Serum Presets’ folder which can be located by clicking ‘Menu’ tab.

3. Click ‘Show Serum Presets folder’ > this will open the location of Serum’s entire available content.

3. Locate the ‘Presets’ folder, then the ‘User’ folder contained within it > now you will need to move the purchased presets to the ‘User’ folder before reopening Serum.

4. Once Serum has been reloaded, click the ‘Browser’ folder icon/tab (as highlighted by the yellow arrow below) on the left side of the ‘Menu’ tab and you will then see your presets in the list (as shown below). Double-click your preferred preset to load it into Serum.

5. The presets are now ready for use!

Sylenth

1. Download the .zip folder provided within your User Account and double-click it to extract the main folder to a computer location of choice, e.g documents or to an external hard drive.

2. Open Sylenth within your DAW > click the ‘Preset’ option within the interface’s central screen, and then select ‘Load’ to locate the individual preset within the extracted folder (once it has been unzipped).

Please note: You can now select multiple presets and import them simultaneously, by using the left/right arrows to change between them.

3. To load a preset bank, click the ‘Bank’ option then choose ‘Load’ within the interface’s central screen to locate your chosen bank.

4. The presets are now ready for use!

SubBoomBass

1. Download the .zip folder from within your User Account and double-click it to extract its contents.

Note: Multiple sub-folders exist within the main extracted folder, which contains the inclusive various file formats.

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Windows

2. Save the folder to a memorable computer location of choice, e.g. 'documents' or on an external hard drive.

Installing Bank Folders

1. Open SubBoomBass within your DAW, and click within the slim tab that is located on the right-side of the 'Presets' option to reveal the drop-down selection (this can be found at the top-left corner of SubBoomBass' main user interface).

2. Select the 'Load Bank' option from the drop-down selection.

3. Navigate to the computer location (e.g Documents) where you saved the main expansion pack folder to, and locate the 'PW98_Suboom_Bank File' sub-folder.

4. Double-click on the 'PW98_Suboom_Bank File' sub-folder, and select the 'Ultimate House Basses Vol One.fxb' file > once the file is selected, click on the 'Open' or 'Choose' option that is displayed within your computer's web browser to upload the bank file.

5. The preset bank folder is now available via the 'Preset > Quick Browse' tabs.

6. The individual files are located and available for selection when clicking the preset pack name e.g 'Ultimate House Basses Vol 1', before choosing a particular preset from a preset bank.

Please note: The 'Ramirez' preset has been selected in this example.

                 The Chosen Preset Ready for Use Within SubBoomBass!

Installing Individual Preset Files

1. Open SubBoomBass within your DAW, and click within the slim tab that is located on the right-side of the 'Presets' option to reveal the drop-down selection (this can be found at the top-left corner of SubBoomBass' main user interface).

2. Select the 'Load Preset' option from the drop-down selection.

3. Navigate o the computer location (e.g Documents) where you saved the main expansion pack folder to, and locate the 'PW98_Suboom_Single Presets' sub-folder.

4. Double-click on the ''PW98_Suboom_Single Presets' sub-folder, and select a .fxp file name/preset of choice e.g 'Classic House Bass.fxp' > once the file is selected, click on the 'Open' or 'Choose' option that is displayed within your computer's web browser to upload the preset file.

                  The Chosen Preset Ready for Use Within SubBoomBass!

MIDI Files

1. Once you have downloaded and extracted the main folder from the .zip file, copy/save the extracted folder to a memorable computer location e.g 'Documents' or to an external hard drive - open the 'MIDI Files' sub-folder to locate the MIDI files, which are displayed like so...'001_Left_wing.mid'.

2. To Load the included MIDI files within most DAWs, you will need to either go to the file open tab whilst in your chosen software environment and use the 'Import Midi File option', or alternatively drag and drop any of the '.Mid' files onto a new track (in your arrangement/session window). To be able to hear anything at this stage, you now need to assign a software instrument of choosing to the track that the MIDI file pattern has been copied to (be it a software or hardware synth of choice) > please check the instructions/user manual of your relevant DAW, if you are unsure on how to perform this.

Vengeance Sound - VPS Avenger

1. Download the .zip folder from your User Account.

2. Double-click the.zip folder to open and reveal its contents.

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MIDI Files

1. Once you have downloaded and extracted the main folder from the .zip file, copy/save the extracted folder to a memorable computer location e.g 'Documents' or to an external hard drive - the prefix needed starts with 'AR/BS_' etc, and is followed by a number as well as the pack's full name e.g 'AR Use As Mau5 Chord D.mid'.

2. To Load the included MIDI files within most DAWs, you will need to either go to the file open tab whilst in your chosen software environment and use the 'Import Midi File option', or alternatively drag and drop any of the '.Mid' files onto a new track (in your arrangement/session window). To be able to hear anything at this stage, you now need to assign a software instrument of choosing to the track that the MIDI file pattern has been copied to (be it a software or hardware synth of choice) > please check the instructions/user manual of your relevant DAW, if you are unsure on how to perform this.

3. The name of the MIDI file includes the type of instrument that would sound best and the original key of any melodic MIDI loops, but feel free to experiment with Instrument types and/or alter the programming to fit your tracks.

Loading VST and Plug-In Synth Instruments Into VPS Avenger

1. Once you have downloaded and extracted the main folder from the .zip file, copy/save the extracted folder to a memorable computer location e.g 'Documents' or to an external hard drive - the prefix needed starts with 'PW_' and is followed by a number as well as the pack's full name e.g 'PW Big House & EDM Avenger.avengercontent'.

2. Open your DAW and load an Instance of VPS Avenger to an instrument track.

3. Drag the 'PW Big House & EDM Avenger.avengercontent'. file into the browser of VPS Avenger.

4. Avenger will ask you if you want to import the file click 'Okay'.

5. Once the software file has successfully imported click 'Finish'.

6. To browse the presets, simply click on the 'Content' tab of Avenger's browser and select the 'House & EDM Avenger (A)' icon > you will then be able to browse the presets that are available in the displayed list.

7. Select the preset name that you wish to use, and double-click it to upload it to VPS Avenger.

                The Software is now Ready for Use Within VPS Avenger!

Z3TA+2 Presets 

Mac Installation

Windows Installation