How to transfer all settings from Cubase 13 to 15?

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I have some difficulties transferring settings from Cubase 13 to 15.

When I compare directories Cubase 13 and Cubase 15 in ~/Library/Preferences, I can see that 13 has the file Presets/ControlRoom.pxml, while 15 does not (if I copy the file, it gets deleted after running C15). Besides, I see that C15’s folder has the new subfolder ControlRoom, with the file Default that has a different XML structure.

Moreover, RAMPresets.xml files look slightly different and I do hesitate to copy.

I have noticed that the Profile Manager automagically copied things like custom key commands, which is nice. However, it is not clear to me why Control Room settings were not transfered.

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Hi,
RAM presets should be safe to copy over.

Location and format of CR presets have changed as you already noticed. Did you save customized Control Room presets as such in separate files or do you just see the default as a file?
As far as I can tell C15 doesn’t extract the settings from the default (that’s what happened here from C14 to C15). However, it transfers other presets into the new folder as xml files. I am not sure, though, since I am not planning to reinstall C15 just to reproduce this behaviour (I have 2 systems with C15).

Since you already installed everything I’d suggest to create a new CR preset and save a backup someplace safe. Like many other users I had the problem that CR presets went rogue in previous Cubase versions and I had to replace the corrupted files with the backup. Literally hundreds of times. Good news - it seems like they have fixed this very annoying issue in Cubase 15!! It’s still early days so I better not jinx it… :wink:

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Ah, I forgot: Control Room presets are not part of a Profile srf., that’s why.

Another thing: “automagically” - best typo ever :+1:

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Basically, yes, but the new version may contain new presets that are not displayed then. For example, C15 contains new track control presets (Standard, Simple, Recording, Mixing). I copied my old RAMPresets.xml from C14 too, as I have many of my own presets that were not transferred when I installed C15. I then had to add the new factory presets manually.

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@ASM Good point, you are right. The structure of RAMpresets.xml might also be different with respect to the new hub.

Bottom line -it is probably best to create new presets for both RAM and Control Room presets.

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Yes, I know that it is not a part of Profile.srf, I think, I saw it on this forum in a post by you, @Reco29.

I have written “automagically” intentionally, being pleased that settings (at least key commands) were transferred automatically.

I have actually recreated the Audio connections and Control Room manually: I have just learned how to use it a month ago, and it was a good reminder how to do things there.