All VST plug-in data lost when switching between Mac & PC!!!

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tbcam88
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All VST plug-in data lost when switching between Mac & PC!!!

Post by tbcam88 » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:54 pm

Hi,


After opening an Ableton project which was originally done on Mac I was horrified to find that all VSTi configuration had been lost!

Any channel running a plug-in was now empty and I had to load the relevant instrument back in one after another (thus defaulting them to their original sounds/presets!)

This is a major inconvenience as I will be transferring projects from this Mac computer regularly and this problem will render the information within almost unusable!

Please tell me there is a fix for this somehow! :O
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Re: All VST plug-in data lost when switching between Mac & PC!!!

Post by Palmer Eldritch » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:28 am

Could it be that you are using "audio units" instead of "vsts" on your Mac?

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Re: All VST plug-in data lost when switching between Mac & PC!!!

Post by tbcam88 » Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:06 am

Hi Palmer,


No mate, it's strictly VSTi's in use...

'Sylenth', 'Nexus', 'Predator' etc. etc.

My guess is, the problem is due to the VST path directory since this will differ between Mac and Windows.

I sincerely hope there is a solution though, as the projects are pretty useless opened elsewhere otherwise!

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