I must be like the only old guy who revisits work from 10 years ago. That’s the only way I can make sense of how fragile the import process is from previous versions. Here are just a couple of things:
- I frequently find events or automation MISSING when importing from the old version… but no error was presented when opening the CPR in C8. That’s -bad-. If it opens cleanly in the old version, the XML of the CPR is intact. So if an event doesn’t load, there should be a CLEAR ERROR LOG. Most of the time? I don’t notice the missing stuff UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE…
Eg. I’ve started working on the new version and don’t notice that there should be french horns at bar 361… 2 hrs after I deleted the VSTi… and all its automation. Oy. So then I have to make a really painful decision: go back and redo everything or push on and try to re-import the bits.
And then of course there are the Donald Rumsfeld ‘unknown unknowns’… I now live in fear that there may be other stuff I’m missing unless I go back and review every bar in the score. All 300 tracks. This is upsetting.
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There should be a more intelligent ‘colour mapping’. I guess I expect that the project colours will be imported over, but they ain’t. They seem to be NUMBER MAPPED to the factory defaults–those amazingly unreadable flourescent colours.
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When Cubase opens the old CPR MixConsole is frequently a -mess-. It messes with the colours (as above) but far worse? The track widths/heights/etc. are frequently all over the place. This ends up taking ages to get into shape so one can get down to business. What it -should- do is use some sort of standard placement. It looks like the new UI doesn’t have any kind of u/m converter… like a responsive web design that tries to convert PX to %s or EMs.
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I open a CPR in C8 which uses a deprecated Steinberg product eg. Monologue. OK, fine, you’ve got a new toy. But… how hard is it for Cubase to auto-magically hook that up to an instance of Retrologue OR take a look through the 7 previous versions of Cubase I’ve got installed on my system and grab -that- (at least temporarily). What it does now is simply complain… as if it were from a vendor SB knows nothing about. I chose Monologue because it looks like the new softsynth even uses a lot of the same presets so how hard can this be?