z3ta+ 1.5.3 prob with Virus mod

hi rene,

i have been struggling to get the z3ta+ mods to work with the 1.5.3 update, but so far, it hasn't worked correctly.

i have made use of the "backdoors" you added (placing the required subfolders in the modded installation folder), but i have found several presets which do not sound at all the same.

specifically, in Bank D of the Virus mod there are two presets which i am familiar with from use in old songs of mine.

when i play these presets with the 1.5.3 mod, they do not sound anything like what they are supposed to.

the presets are "003: 4 bunch Of hum5" and "004:R4ilw4ys".

after much looking and playing, i think i have found the source of the problem (at least with my install, if not with the release):

-> the new Option "Realtime Quality" is NOT set to any value in the list (no item is checked).

when i set the Realtime Quality" to "1.0", the presets spring to life.



is this an error on my part in failing to move some piece of the installation into the modded subfolders, or an oversight in the code?

thanks.

and yet even more info:

interestingly, if i load the v1.4 Virus_mod and SAVE the bank to the v1.5.3 Virus_mod installation as "default.fxb", then the next time i load the v1.5.3 Virus_mod, all is well.

both the ARP setting and the real-time quality are then set correctly and all sounds correct.

the original "default.fxb" from the Virus_mod_V2 package is 140kb (size).

the newly written version (saved from v1.4 Virus_z3ta+) is now 167kb (size).

although i am happy to get this working, can you please explain why this should be (filesize difference and why the original banks aren't loaded correctly)?

in general, do we need to resave all our old banks (using v1.4) so that they will work correctly in v1.5.3?

i would hope that old banks would just work, as is.

very confused at the moment.

hi fr4ncesco,

it was one of the first things i did! i love your Virus_z3ta+ mod. thanks so much for it!

i have submitted a bug report to cakewalk, as further experiments have shown that the "missing/incorrect real-time quality" setting is a problem for many (all?) older banks, not just mods.

still not sure why the ARP settings were different for the one preset i mentioned above, but hopefully this is also a function of not correctly picking up old preset settings and translating them to the new code ( in other words, i'm hoping investigation of the one will solve the other...maybe a bad assumption, but i am hoping... :))