Exchanging projects between two PCs fails

VST Live
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Hello,
I have a problem using VST Live projects on two computers.
I prepare my songs in Cubase on PC 1 (Windows with sound card A), export them and create the VST Live project on PC 1.
Then I copy the entire directory to PC 2 (Windows with sound card B) and open the VST Live project. VST Live crashes (the program closes without any further response).
I can import the individual songs into a new VST Live project on PC 2. This means that the songs are fine.

Question:

  1. Why does VST Live just crash?
  2. What is the best way to exchange a project between two PCs?

Thanks for the help.
Greetings, Heiko

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Hi,

Can you please have a look to the following folder and check if a CrashLog was created?
C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\Steinberg\CrashDumps

Please share the logs with us.

ā€¦ use th" Menu / File / Save Archive ā€¦" function for it. Save the archive to an empty folder, zip it and transfer it to your other computer.

See you,
Michael.

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Hi @Spork ,
unfortunately there is no Crash-Dump-File in this folder.
I can reproduce the crash at any time.
But now I see, I have a general problem.
I can no longer open old projects. VST Live always crashes when I open it. I can only create new projects.
Mayby I have to uninstall VST-Live und re-install?
Kind regards Heiko

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OK, I uninstalled VST-Live and re-installed it.
And now, VST-Live works an I can open my projects. Very strange.

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Hello @Spork,
unfortunately, Iā€™m still having problems importing songs into VST Live.

As I wrote, I create my songs in Cubase and export them in VST Live format.
Then I import the songs into a VST Live project on my PC. This is working well so far.
Now I want to transfer this project to my laptop. To do this, I use the archive function, as suggested.
I transfer the folder with the archive files to the laptop and open it in VST Live.
At first glance, this looked fine. However, VST Live seems to be getting confused with the files.
I have an audio click track in every song. It always has the same name.
Now, when I play the songs on the laptop, some of the click tracks no longer match the song. Even with a piano track, thereā€™s a clip that comes from a completely different song. There seems to be a name overlap here as well.
When I look at the contents of the audio folder, I see that there are far too few files. Especially with the click tracks, there should be exactly as many as there are songs.
But the number of drum clips is also too small.

So this isnā€™t working for me at all.
Can you please help me?

Regards,
Heiko

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Additional information
File-Structure:

VST-LIVE-Folder

  • Song 1 (=> song-folder exported from Cubase)
    • arrange
    • audio
    • midi
    • signature
    • tempo
    • song1.vlprj
  • Song 2 (=> song-folder exported from Cubase)
    • ā€¦
    • song2.vlprj
  • Song 3 (=> song-folder exported from Cubase)
    • ā€¦
    • song3.vlprj
  • myproject.vlprj

I imported every song (from folder Song 1 to Song 3) to a new setlist and saved that as myproject).

And: I tested another way:
I saved every song from my master-VST-Live-Project vis ā€œSong/Save songā€.
Then I created a new Project an Load the songs with ā€œcopy the assetsā€.
Since some clips have the same name, they will be overwritten during copying. This is obviously bad. Overwriting shouldnā€™t be allowed. Instead, the file name should be made unique during copying, or a separate subdirectory should be created for each song.

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when I remember correct, at the moment it is necessary, that every file in the whole project has a unique name. As long as this isnā€™t solved, its e.g. a good idea to put a prefix to the file name representing the song name.

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Iā€™ve now built a workaround, as vst-live currently doesnā€™t offer what I need. Iā€™ll create a separate feature request for this.

My workaround looks like this:
I set up a virtual drive on my laptop. This drive has the same structure as my master PC. This allows me to copy all files, and data exchange works easily.
The virtual drive can be set up via command line. However, I use the free app ā€˜visual substā€™.

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