Is Cubase LE1 simply not compatible with Quad Core MacBooks somehow? HELP!

[drekka]

OK, so for days now I have been trying to get a time machine backup going on a new/old MacBook Pro so I can use Cubase LE1.0.10.110 to access some older projects.

I am totally perplexed as to why it is not working for me, as the program always crashes / stalls when it hits “Initializing: VST Multitrack” and I have to force quit it to get it closed.

My original computer opens it fine, still does… but is having other issues so I cannot play anything on it without constant stuttering / buffering issues.

So, I made a Time Machine backup and installed it on this new laptop… exactly the same in every way, but it crashes every time.

So, just to do a little research, I used the exact same backup and installed it on an old iMac I have and it worked perfectly.

Here are the specs for all three machines.

The only real difference I can see is that the new MacBook Pro is a quad core i7… could that make a difference?

ORIGINAL MACHINE:
MacBook7,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 8GB RAM / 1TB SSD / 13" (Mid-2010)
RUNNING Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Cubase LE1 opens fine and can load projects and Ozone4 settings.

IMAC BACKUP:
iMac8,1 Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 4GB RAM / 500 GB (Early 2008)
RUNNING Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from exact Time Machine backup as Original Machine

Cubase LE1 opens fine and can load projects and Ozone4 settings.

NEW MACBOOK PRO:
MacBookPro8,2 Intel Quad Core i7 2.0 GHz 16GB RAM / 1TB SSD (Early 2011)
RUNNING Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from exact Time Machine backup as Original Machine

Cubase LE1 crashes when hits “Initializing: VST Multitrack”

WHY?! : )

Here is a Console log from trying to load Cubase LE1.

Now, I know it seems ridiculous to be using LE1, but for entirely other reasons I cannot get my Ozone 4 settings to load when I try to open these old LE1 projects in Cubase LE5, so I am just trying to get into these with LE1 for the last time and archive them so I never have to do this again, hah.

[Grim]

@drekka

So, just to do a little research, I used the exact same backup and installed it on an old iMac I have and it worked perfectly.

So why not use that machine?
Or if there’s some issue with using that, maybe you could use it just to save out your Ozone presets to load in LE5.

[drekka]

My MacBook7,1 is on its last legs. Battery is shot, so any time I am working I get paranoid that the power adapter will fall out and I will lose everything, hah.

Also, the MacBookPro8,2 I am hoping to work on is twice as powerful and twice the RAM.

That is a great idea about saving my settings as presets, for a short term fix… but, I have hundreds of projects I would need to do this for if I can’t get LE1 to work. : (

Thanks for the great bandaid for now, though!

[drekka]

I installing Cubase LE 5 (and 4, actually) and ran have run into a totally different VST puzzle…

Cubase LE 5 opens fine… I can start a new project fine, and I can enable Izotope Ozone 4 as an insert in the new, blank track.

BUT… when I go to open one of my projects originally created on CLE1, I get a warning that

“The plug-in :iZotope Ozone 4” could not be found for Master Insert “1”!"

And it opens the file fine otherwise, but with no Ozone 4… now, if I go over to the insert menu, Ozone 4 is THERE… if I select it, it opens a new Ozone 4 insert w/out any of my settings.

So, unless I can get this fixed, then the only recourse I seem to have is your idea of saving every track’s Ozone settings as an individual preset and loading them in one by one to new save files. I mean… it will take forever, but at least all is not totally lost.

You can see that the one that works is in the VST Audio library, but when I try to open an older project it tries to load it from the Cubase LE 5 application contents folder.

[deadfly]

Maybe LE1 was using the VST2 version and LE5 can only find the VST3 version?

[drekka]

What is really strange to me is that LE5 is trying to access my previous Ozone 4 VST w/ Steinberg as the vendor now… whereas the original VST (also listed in the Plug-In Manager) lists iZotope.

On my old laptop, the same project file opens with the same 13 instances of Ozone 4 listed with iZotope as vendor.

I am so confused how LE5 both knows it exists and doesn’t know it exists.

OLD LAPTOP PLUG-IN MANAGER LE1

NEW LAPTOP PLUG-IN MANAGER LE5

Exact same files, exact same plug-in VST and everything. Both use VST2 fine.