How Can I Keep MIDI Track Mappings And Patches The Same On A Project After Upgrading A VST?

leebeelee · October 3, 2019, 6:59pm

Brian Roland:

Only thing I can think of is if the presets from the v1 plugin are compatible with the v2.

In that case you’d need to roll back to a 32bit version (or version with built in 32bit bridge) of Cubase, with V1 of your plugin installed, long enough to load your project and export your plugin presets somewhere, then once you’re back in the 64bit variant of Cubase, with the v2 plugin, see if you can pull those plugin presets back in per instance.

Example: Garritan’s ARIA player has had quite a few updates over the years. It comes in both 32bit and 64bit variants. It comes with plugins types other than VST; however, the library presets that one can save from inside the ARIA plugin are portable across all the different versions and plugin formats.

I have no idea if your Philharmonik plugin works that way, and allows you to pull the old v1 library presets into v2, but it might be worth a try.

Thanks for that Brian, really appreciate you taking the time to reply.

I think I’ll have to do something along those lines then for my Philharmonik. If the presets are compatible across both versions that’s my ‘simplest’ option. I’ll start with that. If not I’ll have to be writing down which instruments were in play for each and every track which could take a while! I have kept the latest 32bit version of cubase on the machine though so can do exactly that and load each project up and with a bit of luck export the presets to switch all the projects to 64bit. Fingers crossed!!

Also good to know the ARIA presets are fairly portable for the future - I have Instant Orchestra, not that I’ve had much time to explore it - something to look forward to for the winter! Thanks again.