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Hi, I originally asked this question here. But I've just realised something which is probably complicating matters further, and I wonder if anyone here has had experience with the matter.

Some of my live songs were written last year when I used to use a Windows PC and the plugins were VST's.

I now have a mac, and not a PC and i've cross-graded all my plugin's to their respective Audio Units.

But if I try to load a song which I had written when I had a windows PC live says for each plugin used for example... "Failed to load VST "Absynth 3." The VST Plug-in could not be located. Please check your File/Folder Preferences."

It doesn't give me a chance to say "hey, it's now an Audio Unit" And I can't swap the plug-in whilst retaining the plugin's settings.

Has anyone managed to do such a thing?

No chance. AUs are recognized as different plugins (by any host).

One thing you could do, since Live supports VSTs on Mac as well, is to install the VST versions, too. Most plugins come as AUs and VSTs.

Second thing is, whenever a plugin offers its own proprietary preset format, to save the presets in that format and transfer it to each respective plugin in your new environment.