My Favorites & 3rd Party Linked MIDI Are Gone!

[Brooks H]

I’m guessing it was the recent update but all of my favorite stars are gone, along with my 3rd party linked midi. Easy enough to relink the midi, but that’s a lot of listening time down the drain regarding the favorites. I have quite a few expansions, midi packs and 3rd party linked midi files.

Known issue? Has this happened to anyone else? Any way to get them back?

Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1

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[Alexander Limbert]

Hi Bezo,

I literally lost weeks of auditions as well. No one replied to a similar post that I posted. You would think something like this would cause a spark of interest. At any rate, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me. I have been historically unsatisfied with Toontrack’s one star favorite, so about a few days ago I started doing some research for a better browser. There doesn’t appear to be anything that worked as far as I research, but I figured out with another app I am now using Mac’s Finder for everything and it works exactly how I dreamed. The app is called “MIDIPlayer X” and the workflow is this. Run a Finder search for “.mid”, highlight all the midi files you want to audition. Right click and click “open”. Finder will ask you if you want to open them all, click “Yes.” That opens MIDIPlayer X and you can set it to round Robbin all of your selections. (Sidenote) set up a midi out virtual device in MIDIPlayer X open SD3 or EZD3 and choose that virtual device as your midi in.  When you hear a midi loop you like click Opt+F and that opens Finder and highlights the exact file that’s playing. Tag away with as many tags as you like. When you are done auditioning the files, any files without a tag, tag those with the tag “Auditioned” so you know not to audition those until you are done auditioning the files with no tags. Once you have everything tagged, you can go back to Re-audition those to see if you possibly missed a good loop. Good luck!

Oh, one more excellent thing is that MIDIPlayer X plays the whole loop and then moves to the next loop.

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Alexander Limbert.

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[Brooks H]

Alexander,

Thanks for responding. I will look into MIDIPlayer X. It does sound very useful.

But I really wish one of the mods would reply with a solution. Other than this fiasco, I was OK with the star method. Or maybe I had just gotten used to it, because no, it’s not a great way to organize the MIDI browser.

SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1

[Alexander Limbert]

Yeah, something as serous as this definitely warrants a response, but mms the word on both my post and obviously here. Good luck!

[Olof Hermansson]

Yes, this is an unexpected and very bad thing with 3.3.0, because of a format change in the MIDI databases, that it removes all databases (and the favorite markings) for User MIDI, linked MIDI folders and third-party MIDI folders. We are working on an update which will preserve all favorites and automatically re-add any user-added folders when you upgrade from 3.2.8 or lower.

That won’t really help you who have already used 3.3.0, unless you have a backup that contains the MidiDB file from before 3.3.0 was installed. On Mac, its path is /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Toontrack/Superior3/MidiDB. On Windows, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Toontrack\Superior3\MidiDB.

If you have such a backup, once the next update is out (in 1-2 weeks I would guess), you can put back the old file and start the new SD3 and it should be able to migrate and preserve everything.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

[Brooks H]

Wow!

I have that file, created in 2019 but updated 5/7/2022.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1

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