Install Cubase 8 After 10?

[mbiermann]

Figured 10 forum was best for this since I have 10 and don’t want to break it. I don’t want this to turn into a “why can’t Steinberg keep supporting their old plugins” rant, but feel free to complain as I will gladly join in.

Ok, so I miss a lot of the old 32 bit plugins. I have 10, and have been going back to a lot of my old projects and can’t do anything with them because half the plugins are no longer supported anymore.

I’m thinking of resurrecting Cubase 8 to get my projects back in their original condition but afraid it will completely jack p the 10 installation. Any thought or experience with this?

[raino]

Well I currently have Cubase 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5 & 10 all installed and have never had any issues opening up two different versions at the same time. So I don’t think there is any intrinsic problem.

But these were over the years installed in sequence so I never tried installing an earlier version after a later one is already installed - although there is no general reason that shouldn’t work.

You can give it a try and just to be safe make sure you do a system backup first (which we should all be doing on a regular basis) then set a recovery point and do your install. If anything is a problem you can revert to the recovery point.

[mbiermann]

Thanks Raino. I guess I’m worried about older versions of plugins and sound files installing over the newer ones in the common folders and such. I’m like you. I had multiple versions of Cubase installed all the way back to 4. Then I got a new machine and only bothered installing 10, not thinking about all my older projects I might want to revisit.

Well… here goes nothing…

[mbiermann]

Everything seems fine so far. I just selected core application and set everything else to “No Change”. So happy to have Quadrafuzz V1 back!

[LoveGames]

@raino

Well I currently have Cubase 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5 & 10 all installed and have never had any issues opening up two different versions at the same time. So I don’t think there is any intrinsic problem.

But these were over the years installed in sequence so I never tried installing an earlier version after a later one is already installed - although there is no general reason that shouldn’t work.

You can give it a try and just to be safe make sure you do a system backup first (which we should all be doing on a regular basis) then set a recovery point and do your install. If anything is a problem you can revert to the recovery point.

Hey since you have all of them, can you check in either 8.5 or 9.5, when it was possible to add a track picture to multiple tracks? thanks.

you should be able to just select multiple tracks and do a quick double click in one of the tracks empty track picture boxes.


Also check if duplicating a track, duplicated the picture as well.

[raino]

@lovegames

Hey since you have all of them, can you check in either 8.5 or 9.5, when it was possible to add a track picture to multiple tracks? thanks.

you should be able to just select multiple tracks and do a quick double click in one of the tracks empty track picture boxes.

Yes in both 8.5 & 9.5

Also check if duplicating a track, duplicated the picture as well.

No in both 8.5 & 9.5

[LoveGames]

@raino

@lovegames

Hey since you have all of them, can you check in either 8.5 or 9.5, when it was possible to add a track picture to multiple tracks? thanks.

you should be able to just select multiple tracks and do a quick double click in one of the tracks empty track picture boxes.

Yes in both 8.5 & 9.5

Also check if duplicating a track, duplicated the picture as well.

No in both 8.5 & 9.5

Thanks, so we did in fact have one that no longer works, and never had the other but should.