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Can anyone here confirm they own equator 2 please? I'd be grateful of some testing on that within KK if you're running VSTShell.

All mappings, previews etc are included. All of this work is manual, one preset at a time - and I'm a couple of hours away from completing the MPE presets (there are a lot of them. The non-MPE presets will take just as long). Luckily, the tagging is really detailed, as for each sound, Equator 2 has tags and descriptions, and while they don't match the NKS standard more than 50% of the time, it does enable some really detailed tagging. It's just very slow doing it One. Preset. At. A. Time.

Aside from the white line from VSTShell, recall is actually quicker in KK for presets than it is by loading in Equator 2. It does have a resizing bug, which is KK specific, so it won't resize upwards and creates black space- but it works fine resizing outside of KK.

So, if anyone has a few minutes spare, and would like to test this for me, I'll finish up the MPE and do a v1 release,

Just doing a bit more work to get some extra presets in (have been doing this for the last three hours - it actually takes around one minute per preset to save and tag properly.)

I'll DM you later today with a download link for testing.

There's a few editors there that allow us to edit the vendor name - and tested with someone else on the forum as working fine. As an example here, it's about planning - the first snapshot you save needs to be edited, and then used as a template for the rest.

For Equator 2, the plugin name also needs to be edited for it to work correctly.

Once 3rd party VST3 support is available in KK, It should work fine. I hope so, because I don't want to spend months doing this one again!

I've just got the pads to do, (only doing MPE snapshots at the moment) and then I'll upload links to the community - along with Odin 2 - which is also tested as working and is complete.

Well, I guess it's time for some more public tests :)

Both Equator 2 and Odin 2 have been tested by one other person (different for each one) - thanks to both of you for your help and feedback.

Equator 2

Only MPE has been done so far, but every MPE preset (550+) has been tagged manually. It was arduous. There's nearly double that number of non-MPE sounds. One day.

Odin 2

Any feedback welcome, and @Kymeia You're welcome to add these to your repo.

That's an entirely fair point @JesterMgee.

I think I'll hold off on the non MPE presets for Equator 2 for now. That said, it shouldn't be too hard to create something that lets you edit .nksf files outside of KK in a more efficient manner.

Will speak to my developer, as a lot of the required work has already been done for Preset Magician - might not be a stretch to create something a bit more targeted around editing from the Github.

I experiment too with Hex edit some years ago, mainly for re-arrange pages in KK with great results.

I had also made a video just to remember the steps to follow (no audio or instructions because it's only for personal purpose)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRGvV2F56s

Keep in mind that since the .nksf is just binary files, old and new preset must have exactly the same size

Well, let's hope. There might be a chance then to rename "VST3" to "Roli", and just change four characters.