Batch converting old FXP presets to VST3 presets

[Eitan_Teomi]

Hi there,
I have a bunch of old FXP presets that were saved with several VST plugins that since, have VST3 versions. Is there a way to batch re-save all those presets as VST3 presets somehow instead of doing it one by one?

Thanks,
Eitan

[djpat]

I’m going to bring this thread back to life in hopes someone might have some answers.

I am dealing with a slightly different situation however.

I have VST3 presets created from within Cubase 11 for VST2 plugins (specifically Roland SH-101 and SYSTEM-1).

I am unable to copy and paste vst settings between the two (probably because the VST2 plugin is showing up as SH-101(VST264bit) and the VST3 is simply called SH-101.

Because this project was created in Cubase 11, I don’t have the option of saving an .fxb type preset file.

Is there someway to edit the .vstpreset file to get it to show in the preset browser? I have tried editing the PlugInName field but it still didn’t show up.

Has anybody figured out a way to do this? I hate that I am having one of those get off my lawn moments here, but the old way of dealing with presets was so much better.

[fese]

There is a program that can convert VST3 presets to old fxp/fxb files:

Fxtractor

(I have never tried it).

I have written a comand line utility that can convert the vst2 versions to the vst3preset, but not the other way round.

Manually changing that should theoretically be possible, but you need the class id (bytes 9-40), which is somehow derived from the old VST2 id.

[djpat]

Thank you!

I will give this a try!

[fese]

Wait, I maybe misunderstood you… So you have presets from the VST2 version of a plugin, but wrapped inside a .vst3preset file? And you want to convert that so the VST3 version (which cannot do that automatically because the developer changed the internal id)?

In that case, my script might be for you:

Program to convert .vstpreset-Files from VST2 to VST3

Hi, I’ve written a little tool that can convert vstpreset-Files that were created with VST2-plugins to a vstpreset for the respective VST3 plugin, but only if the VST2 and VST3 versions of the plugin have different plugin IDs (i.e. the VST3 won’t replace the VST2 plugin automatically, and both are visible in Cubase’s plugin selector dropdown) It is a command line tool, so it is not for the faint of heart. If you are not familiar with Windows PowerShell or CMD, do not use it! Download the bin…

[djpat]

I think this one is exactly what I need. I really do appreciate the help.

I wish steinberg would be little more flexible with things, or at least let the user choose to override safeguards and try things.

[fese]

I just noticed that I haven’t tested this in a long time, and it will not automatically work on C13+. You will probably need to specify the path to the VST3 Cache.xml in the Cubase preferences dir, e.g.

.\vst2tovst3.exe -d '.\u-he\Zebra2(x64)' --vst3name Zebra2 --vst3cache 'c:\User\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Cubase 15\Cubase Pro VST3 Cache\vst3plugins.xml'

And it doesn’t work on Mac, because I don’t have one and cannot test it.