Scratching my head after a Pro 10.5 to 14 update, old Mac Mojave to new Mac Sonoma, Have my personal collection of quantize ‘grooves’ in .ctr & .prt format but these don’t seem to be importable now?
I had some in midi format which i loaded in & then created a groove template for each & saved using the quantize panel, Very slow & backwards procedure, doing it 1 at a time, renaming yadda yadda…I also can’t see any way of backing up your collection of personal groove templates from the quantize panel incase of a accidental delete or a system fail??
This whole section of the software is horrific, Tme intensive & the worst workflow ever for such a basic function!
Have to say Sonoma is very poor compared to Mojave too, Going backwards instead of forwards!
You basically figured it out already. In an old version of Cubase you have to import your files, so that they becomem midi parts in the project. Then save that as a MIDI file.
In the current Cubase you then must convert each midi part one by one into a groove quantize preset.
It certainly feels suboptimal.
Pity some of the old formats aren’t readable, Sonoma & Mojave treat the .prt format differently, It magically tranforms these into midi parts when you view them in Sonoma, They no longer have the .prt at the end & if you ‘get info’ they are now treated as midi parts but only in Sonoma OS. The .ctr file is still unreadable & greyed out on attempts to import or drag & drop.
My big question is just how do i backup this very time consuming process of creating a grooves library & import into a newer version/installation, No information on this very simple & quite essential task anywhere in the online help or manuals, C’mon Steinberg you surely can do better, I spend years collecting & creating custom groove templates & you expect me to start from scratch with a simple upgrade, Trying to remember source files used to create them & actually sourcing audio used to create decades down the line?? My workflow relies on these ‘go to’ custom presets, I don’t have time to research & waste days finding original source & the longwinded procedure to create new versions that you can’t even export & import to a different version of the software, A new computer or anything…
The quantize presets are stored in a file called RAMPresets.xml
You can find it in the Library (that part that is invisble by default). There should be a Cubase folder in there, and inside that folder is another folder “Presets”. Therein lies the seeked file.
Please note: The same file also contains some other preset settings, not only quantize presets.
Appreciate the input Johnny but unfortunately on my Sonoma OS this path doesn’t exist, Weird…I did the command + Shift +H to access the Library folder but there is no Cubase or Steinberg folder or a Presets folder. I did see a post relating to Cubase 11 Pro & this Query but this is not relevant for me running OS 14.7.4, It was a clean install of Cubase 14 on this new Mac, Which was a clean install of Sonoma, It’s still an Intel & i’m transfering over from a trashcan running 10.14 Mojave.
I did find the file you are talking about by following this path in Sonoma: HD>Applications>Cubase 14>Contents>Presets>RAMPresets just sits there not inside a folder, There are many folders for all the different bits of cubase that you can save settings for like Micro Tunings, Step Designer, Pattern Arp etc but no Quantize with all the individual groove files, The only one i could find was in the Project Logical Editor folder, Theres a Quantize folder inside here with a bunch of seperate .xml quantize files but these are ones exclusive to Logical Editor…You would think there would be a .xml for each individual quantize that you have in the dropdown list & a folder in this location, Maybe you have to involve Logical Editor to have more flexibilty having a personal groove/quantize library???
I’ll fire up the Mojave trashcan & see where i get finding the RAMPesets.xml & stick it into the new Mac (remembering to keep the one thats in there rather than writing over!)
What a rabbit hole to go down for the simplest of things!!
Try this please:
- Go to “Your Username/Library/Preferences” and locate the folder which is named the same as your Cubase/Nuendo version.
- Please note: Since Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), the user’s Library folder is hidden! Here is how to access it: In the menu bar of Mac OS X click on “Go”. While the menu is folded out holding down the [ alt ] key (options) will show the “Library” entry.
Don’t touch that file, please. Touch nothing in that Cubase folder.
So that method is indeed the way to migrate from an old version to a new one!
Now i have all my custom groove quantizes in the dropdown 
So confusing having that hidden user Library path, Appreciate the solution Johnny!
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