Hi all
I’d like to upgrade to Cubase 13 from 12. I’d also like to retain Mystic, Prologue and Spector which as I understand it is simply a case of reinstating this file into the equivalent folder for Cubase 13:-
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 12\VST3\SynthEngine.vst3
Has anyone managed to do this in 13 successfully? I did it ok for 11 to 12… Thanks !
Mike
Sorry, not updated yet. Though, in the absence of any speedy responses, you could always consider installing the C13 Trial edition and finding out for yourself (and reporting back for the rest of us).?
Ahh! That looks promising! Thanks for checking 
I just tried this and I can’t get Prologue/Spector to work. They show up just fine in the VST Instruments drop down list:
But, when selecting either Prologue or Spector, I get “No VST Instrument”:
Anybody have any luck getting these two to work on Cubase 13?
Can’t say I’ve had any problems in accessing any of the Steinberg instruments, Absolute 7 etc in C13. Only thing I could suggest is to do a clean install perhaps? I’ve various issues in the past when upgrading Cubase or Nuendo because is imports its preferences from the last version & usually creates problems with plugs.
Better then to remove the old version prefs folder and/or drag to desktop, then install the new Cubase which then builds all of its preferences from scratch, This takes longer, sometimes hangs & needs to be re-started again & especially if there’s a lot of plug-ins to scan. But I’ve found this works much better overall.
One note is to keep any prior templates from the older Cubase version then drop these into the new prefs subfolder for templates. You can then also use these to easily import your old audio routings setting etc.
Hope that helps.
The discussion is specifically about instruments that are not part of the Cubase 13 install, such as Prologue and Spector.
Following - I’m having the same issue
[Windows 10]
When I copied this (the default install path for C12)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 12\VST3\SynthEngine.vst3
to here (the default install path for C13)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 13\VST3\SynthEngine.vst3
all the old synths work as expected.
Although I doubt if this will work with Apple computers.
That’s what I did, and the synths show up in the Cubase instrument drop down (meaning Cubase is recognizing the VST3 file), but as I said, they won’t “stick” and I thus can’t play them.
Did you manage to resolve this? Just ran into the same issue as I opened an old project… :-S
@Timo00 Managed to do it. You need to put your good ol’ eLicenser in, and then it works. The plug-ins have not been updated to the new licensing system I guess…
Oh, cool, thank you! Now I have to see where I put my eLicenser 
How do you get the plugin back? I upgraded to Pro 13 from Elements 10 and now I can’t find the Prologue plug-in. The presets for Prologue are still there but when I open old Cubase projects the Prologue plug-in will not load.
Don’t forget your dongle!
