Can Cubase automatically assign VSTs to the right tracks?

Cubase
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I just installed Elements 9.5 and opened an old project that was created in Cubase 7.
I used the Absynth 5 VST and mostly Kontakt 5 to create this track. Surprisingly Cubase assigned Absynth to the right track, which is good, but it didn’t work for the Kontakt tracks.

is there’s a chance, that it might do that for contact as well?

otherwise I’d have to do it manually, which could be difficult, depending on how precisely I named the tracks. I’d more or less have to guess the right instrument.

Or let me put it this way: It seems to recognize, that the tracks use Kontakt, but cant figure out the right instrument:

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Hi,

To me it looks like you don’t have Kontakt 5 installed. Or maybe it’s different Kontakt. Maybe you were using 32bit version before? Or you were using Kontakt Player and now you have the full version. Sorry, just guessing.

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Thanks for the guess. :slight_smile: “Maybe you were using 32bit version before?” is probably the problem. Unfortunately 9.5 doesnt support 32 bit VST anymore. But 9.5 was the oldest version I could install through the Steinberg Download assistant. So maybe I just have to get an older version somewhere else.

The other option would be: Assigning the right instruments to the tracks from the 64 bit Kontakt. But as mentioned: Some of them are just called “Drums”, so there wouuld be a lot of guessing involved. Or ist there a way to get more background info on the instrument the track used …?

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Hi,

I sent you Cubase Pro 8.5 (the last 32-bit Cubase) installer via PM.

I would probably open the project there and find out the patches/sounds names and write them down. Then I would open the project in the latest Cubase version you have (probably 9.5) and replace old Kontakts with the new one and load the sounds.