Import Tracks from Project: state not importing (Output Routing, Track Heights, Automation State)

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I’m very happy that expression maps and drum maps now import correctly in Cubase 15, but there are a few more remaining elements of track state that still don’t seem to import properly. Fixing these issues would make track import for large orchestral templates much smoother!

Here are two small source projects and an empty destination project to import into that should reproduce the issue (along with screenshots):

2026-04-30_C15-Import-Tracks-Issues.zip (3.7 MB)

Steps to reproduce from those projects:

  1. Open Destination.cpr (or just start from a blank project).
  2. File > Import > Tracks from Project… and select Instr A.cpr.
  3. In Import Options dialog, select Folder A (which should also check all tracks that are nested within it). Make sure Track Data to be Imported includes Events and Parts, Channel and Inspector Settings, and Automation. Hit OK.
  4. File > Import > Tracks from Project… and select Instr B.cpr.
  5. In Import Options dialog, select Folder B. Hit OK.

-> Result (as I saved in Destination (after imports).cpr) = The following elements of imported track state don’t import properly:

  • Output Routing: most seriously, the MIDI tracks under Folder B are incorrectly routed to Instr A (from Instr A.cpr) instead of Instr B (from Instr B.cpr).
  • Track Heights: don’t match the source project they were imported from (and they seem to be inconsistent from one import to the next).
  • Read Automation State: not enabled where it should be (on the automated plug-in parameters “AUX 1 Return” and “AUX 2 Return” under the Instr A - Out1 and Instr B - Out1 instrument return tracks.

Screenshot of that destination after import:

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Versus e.g. what source Instr B.cpr project looks like:

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Tested on: Cubase 15.0.21 Build 252 (Apple Silicon) running on macOS Sequoia 15.7.4.

(There does seem to be a workaround for Output Routing: if the instrument track is instead ordered first–ABOVE any MIDI tracks that output to it–then the Output Routing assignment for those MIDI tracks seems to import correctly. So that suggests that there might be a 1-pass import algorithm that can’t handle the routing for the MIDI tracks correctly when the instrument track they output to hasn’t been processed yet).

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Found another: Link Group Settings are also not importing correctly.

(I’m happy to start individual threads for these issues, but to me they’re highly related in that the Import Tracks from Project feature isn’t fully importing source track state).

To reproduce this one:

  1. In a new Cubase project, create a few Group or FX tracks.
  2. Add a VCA Fader to control those tracks.
  3. Open the Link Group Settings dialog, give the link group a custom name, and check only Volume as the linked parameter.
  4. Save that project. Start a new Cubase project and import all of those tracks into it.
  5. Open the Link Group Settings dialog on the imported link group.

-> Link group name wasn’t imported, and the linked parameters have changed (Sends, Routing, and Selection are linked when they shouldn’t be).

Screenshots from my test:

C15_LinkGroup_Source
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C15_LinkGroup_Dest
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Hi, very nice report!
I confirm the MIDI routing issue you described, and looks like a bug, to me.

As for the other topics, I don’t believe any of those items are intended to be imported, but I can see how they would be desirable feature requests.