Absynth 6.0.1 -- Absynth 5 third-party expansions not available & import presets function needed

FTL Museian

I have a number of third-party Absynth 5 expansions. None of them are showing up in Absynth 6.0.1.

I think an import function is badly needed.

If there is a way to get those Absynth 5 third-party expansions into version 6 I'd sure like to know.

Thanks for releasing an update to Absynth and for your consideration of my suggestion.

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pnutbutta

When I attempted to open an old v5 3rd party preset, nothing happened…patch did not change, then it crashed. 🤔

Then again, those .nabs presets were previously imported/converted from .ksd and they load fine in v5.

I will just stick with stock presets for now since I am sure bugs and stuff like this need to get ironed out. There are some good preset packs out there so I hope they can get this working.

Kymeia

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/49121/absynth-6-0-1-absynth-5-third-party-expansions-not-available-import-presets-function-needed

It doesn’t have or need an “import” function because, unlike previous versions of Absynth where preset formats got changed, Absynth 6 can still load Absynth 5 format (.nabs) natively and also loads and saves presets in the same format used in Komplete Kontrol (.nksf). So you can just drop a folder of .nabs or .nksf presets directly into the Absynth 6 sounds location. If you want them to show in the actual list of banks in the Absynth browser the best way is just to copy each folder of bank files into '/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Absynth 6/Sounds/bankname - don't copy the whole sounds folder just the bank so the .nabs files are all top level

This also works with symlinks - just copy the symlink to the folder of .nabs over to the same location (these are Mac paths, but I'm sure there is an equivalent folder on Win)

Actually though you can also just leave them where they are in the Absynth 5 sounds folder and use Komplete Kontrol to manage the presets - I prefer this as it means I keep them all in one location rather than have copies all over the place and so Absynth 5 can also access them - Komplete Kontrol has my Absynth 5 banks location all added to the user library and now Absynth 6 is installed it opens them in Absynth 6 instead of Absynth 5 (they still appear under the Absynth 5 location but I don't mind that as I will still use Absynth 5 until they add the ability to use Libraries)

Obviously if banks are in an earlier format like .glo you will need to convert those to .nabs first in Absynth 5

Jeremy_NI

@FTL Museian These presets should be working, Which library is it exactly? Could you share a couple of these presets to see if we can reproduce the issue?

Stefan Knauthe

The transfer of Absynth 5 files to AB6 is indeed a bit weird. Names and personalized folder structures are not taken over. Instead it shows some kind structure based on the origin of a preset. I have added a picture of my finder with the application support folder of AB 6 and how it looks in the preset explorer. And why is the author of a preset with no author always Richard Devine? This should be editable. Makes no sense.

Application Support AB 6.png

Preset Explorer.png

Jeremy_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/250488#Comment_250488

I meant the actual presets, not the names or pictures, so we can try and load them.

Regarding the author, it's in the Known Issues already so it's on the radar already. You can check that in the release notes HERE

Stefan Knauthe

Sure, no problem.

My 2nd Bank.zip

FTL Museian

For NI Support: Here is a zipped folder of the presets from NI's Best of Absynth v2 which are part of my Absynth 5 installation. The folder is located on my Windows 11 PC at C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\Native Instruments\Absynth 5\Sounds\BestOfAbsynthv2\

The presets in this folder are all in the .NABS file format.

I tried copying the BestOfAbsynthv2 folder to C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content\Absynth 6\Sounds, but it's not showing up under the User icon. I'm running Absynth 6 in standalone mode and have restarted after copying the folder.

I created a Sounds folder and copied the BestOfAbsynthv2 folder to C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\Native Instruments\Absynth6\Sounds\

After restarting none of the presets or the folder itself are being recognized at that location either so far as I can tell.

Thank you for your help.

BestOfAbsynthv2.zip

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