How to save the preset?

[borokabokor]

Sorry, but I can't figure out that how to save preset. On the preset page, the save preset button doesn't work.

kubunt 24.04, x11, bitwig 6

[RickTaylor79]

It's a bit unintuitive, the save button only saves existing presets. You want the "add" buttons below. The first two create new folders, the 3rd saves the preset.

[borokabokor]

Thank you for helping me! Unfortunately I don't have add buttons...

[RickTaylor79]

Looks like you don't have the app data folder in place (this needs to exist or it won't know where to save the presets). My fault, I should document this better.

First download the content zip here: https://github.com/publicsamples/Oi-Grandad/releases/download/v2.3.4/oi-grandad-content.zip

Then extract it to: Home/.config/modularsamples/

If the modularsamples folder doesn't exist, create it.

There are a handful of presets and samples included in the folder, you can delete these if you don't want them, really it's just the folder structure & the settings files that must be in place for everything to function correctly.

[borokabokor]

I already have those directories and files:

monty@montressor:~/Downloads/tmp/synth/new/oi-granded$ ls -la ~/.config/modularsamples/oi\ grandad/
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 5 monty monty 4096 márc 10 01:27 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 monty monty 4096 máj 17 20:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 monty monty 4096 márc 8 00:30 AudioFiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 monty monty 28 aug 21 2023 AudioResources.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 monty monty 213 febr 27 04:34 DeviceSettings.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 monty monty 6148 márc 8 16:27 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 2 monty monty 4096 szept 14 2022 Expansions
-rw-r--r-- 1 monty monty 185 márc 10 01:27 GeneralSettings.xml
drwxr-xr-x 3 monty monty 4096 márc 10 01:27 'User Presets'

[borokabokor]

tried to download the v2.3.4, but the window shows its version 2.3.3
sha256sum linux-vst3.zip
6ab60282e63f4e090e5bd6e9a1c4f70cc8c59abd8c007429e10e44b8fe1284f4 linux-vst3.zip

the file inside:
sha256sum oi\ grandad.vst3.zip
b7cc5b0ac9ee9154febc31028e78d246693f446db13bc20787fa5dd9f939eef3 oi grandad.vst3.zip

the so file:
monty@montressor:~/.vst3/oi grandad.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux$ sha256sum oi\ grandad.so
6f62ada6e4b3a8ff634a8e1de6961167dada3ee955ded111ad8bf71011381009 oi grandad.so

lower right: version 2.3.3, and no add buttons.
~/.config/modularsamples/ directory as the previous post (also downloaded the content from the 2.3.4 version)

[RickTaylor79]

Okay, this is definitely a bug with the linux version. The last few versions were looking for the files in opt, rather than the users home folder.

Try this version (tested working on ubuntu 20):

https://github.com/publicsamples/Oi-Grandad/actions/runs/26117571779

[borokabokor]

Thank you. It seems the plugin couldn't loaded, or I can't see in bitwig, however the log shows just infos:
...
[2026-05-22 20:22:26.095 float-document-master info] Loaded 0 of 16 plug-ins
[2026-05-22 20:22:26.095 modularsamples oi grandad 16 info] Started loading plug-in (3 queued)
[2026-05-22 20:22:26.095 float-document-master info] Loaded 0 of 17 plug-ins
...
[2026-05-22 20:22:35.893 modularsamples oi grandad 16 info] Engine loaded plug-in
[2026-05-22 20:22:35.893 modularsamples oi grandad 16 info] Finished loading plug-in (0 queued)
...
[2026-05-22 20:22:36.198 modularsamples oi grandad 16 info] Undoable change made in plug-in "oi grandad: Various Changes"
...
[2026-5-22 22:20:27.627 BITWIG_PLUGIN_HOST info] PluginHost: Reading VST 3 plugin metadata for /home/monty/.vst3/oi grandad.vst3
[2026-05-22 22:20:27.708 float-library-metadata info] Closing connection with plugin host: The connection should not be kept alive at the end of the command
[2026-05-22 22:21:18.616 indexer info] Could not read metadata for oi grandad.vst3 com.bitwig.flt.library.metadata.reader.exception.CouldNotReadMetadataException: could not read metadata: /home/monty/.vst3/oi grandad.vst3/Contents/aarch64-linux/oi grandad.so

[RickTaylor79]

Hmm, I can't reproduce this Ubuntu 20.03 with Bitwig 6.

This is the interesting part:

com.bitwig.flt.library.metadata.reader.exception.CouldNotReadMetadataException: could not read metadata: /home/monty/.vst3/oi grandad.vst3/Contents/aarch64-linux/oi grandad.so

aarch64-linux is where it would look for an ARM binary, but this doesn't exist, Oi, Grandad binaries are x86-64 only on Linux..

Seems unlikely, but are you using a device with an ARM CPU, or the ARM version of Bitwig? It could be a caching issue. Try deleting the plugin, clear Bigwigs plugin cache and place the latest build in your plugin folder.

[borokabokor]

Dear RickTaylor79,

Sorry for the delay, so it seems I had exchanged something. I removed the plugin, delete, download again, and it is now 2.3.5 the version, and there is add button.
Thank you very much!