pre VST5 songs - HELP NEEDED

Cubase
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Hello. I’ve got Cubase VST songs dating back to 1994/96 that i just can’t seem to open. Any songs after that i have managed to salvage using SX3/import but these earlier song i am at a total dead end.
They were written on a mac and i’m wondering if this is where the problem in retrieving them lies. I’m running SX3 on Windows XP and that works fine importing post 96 mac VST songs. I think these later songs were written using VST5 on the mac but the earlier songs must have been VST 3-4.

Can anyone help me out at all?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Check out the thread “Atari PRO24 to LE4 HOW???”.

Basically, Steinberg stopped supporting the import of older songs, & there is no direct method of doing this.

The only workarounds are viable but incredibly tedious.

(Of course, if you do find a better method than exporting/importing MIDI files & manually copying the missing info, please LMK!)

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This is an old battle, please join in and revive old threads for a social push on the subject: :slight_smile:

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If you’re on Mac this will help, using an .app called Wineskin, you install your old Cubase version into the .app. Even works on Mavericks.

More info here: