Free presets: Silo & Other Desert Cities

Halftone

I stumbled across these free presets...

Silo:

ODC:

Halftone

Hasn’t seen them posted here , apologies if they were already..

mistercharlie

Nice, thanks! Grabbing those ODC ones now.

sharifkerbage

Thanks for sharing. Do you know how to import presets in Silo?

RockBottom

Thank you: some Other Desert Cities presets are in a file with hidden suffix .rar… does anybody know which application can open that?

Halftone

The rar file just has all the individual presets in one folder - so if you download all individually you don’t need that rar file

RockBottom

Ah, OK: thank you so much!

mangecoeur

Im not manging to import the odc presets on ipad. From the standalone mode if i import a single preset nothing happens, if i try to import the zip file (converted from rar) it crashes Im using the ´import zip/preset’ from the menu am i missing something??

Forget that, i copied directly into the odc folder and after restarting a handful of times the presets appeared.

mtenk

@RockBottom said:
Ah, OK: thank you so much!

If you need to open RAR files in the future there are several free apps in the AppStore. Just type ‘rar’ into the search field. I’ve used one called Zip & RAR that works just fine.

_ki

I downloaded the rar and uncompressed it with the ‚Documents‘ app into a folder. Renamed that folder to ArcticFox and comressed it again to produce a ArcticFox.zip.

When imported this zip, all of the presets are put into an ArcticFox folder inside OtherDesertCities preset browser.

_ki

BTW, I fidn‘t find a way to import the Silo presets. Neither as zip, nor the individual .uap Files. I tried copying into the UA Silo folder, drag and drop to a running Silo standalone instance and via the sharing menu.

Halftone

Yeah haven’t figured out silo import yet

enkaytee

@Halftone said:
Yeah haven’t figured out silo import yet

On the desktop (VST3 / AUv2) plugin, there's an option to load a preset file from a saved location which means you can access the individual presets in the download and on a Mac there's a folder where the factory ones are stored so you can copy them there. These don't seem to be options on the iPad version....but there is a system folder in the iPad file structure where user presets seem to get stored - unfortunately that's not visible via the Files app.

UPDATE - contacted @trickyflemming and this is the situation:

"At the moment, we don't have an import feature yet. We are planning to add that in after we address latency and UI rendering."

Gavinski

@enkaytee said:

@Halftone said:
Yeah haven’t figured out silo import yet

On the desktop (VST3 / AUv2) plugin, there's an option to load a preset file from a saved location which means you can access the individual presets in the download and on a Mac there's a folder where the factory ones are stored so you can copy them there. These don't seem to be options on the iPad version....but there is a system folder in the iPad file structure where user presets seem to get stored - unfortunately that's not visible via the Files app.

UPDATE - contacted @trickyflemming and this is the situation:

"At the moment, we don't have an import feature yet. We are planning to add that in after we address latency and UI rendering."

@trickyflemming let's also have an export feature too then please! Ideal would be import and export of zip files. You click on the zip file, silo (or the relevant app) comes up as an option, you choose that and it all gets imported into a named / nameable user folder. User folder should ideally have subfolders. IceWorks synths on iOS are currently a very good example of extremely smooth import of preset banks. Maybe others here can suggest other synths / devs with fast / easy preset import / export that might give you guys ideas / inspiration

JeffChasteen

@mtenk said:

@RockBottom said:
Ah, OK: thank you so much!

If you need to open RAR files in the future there are several free apps in the AppStore. Just type ‘rar’ into the search field. I’ve used one called Zip & RAR that works just fine.

That’s the one.
ZIP & RAR File Extractor