Trying to Import Key Commands?

Yeah, it’s weird, and I don’t know why they’ve retained that old and confusing choice in the dialog box.

There is an alternative- using Profiles.

I agree, seems very strange to me, I go into this folder rather frequently between several different computers and have macros to push this stuff out. I wish that they would make this easier to export to a location and import into another location.

Another thing that I think every DAW should do but Steinberg before everyone else is having an icon in the project toolbar that when clicked and lit does Cubase Default key commands and when not lit does whatever user profile you have loaded in. That way you could jump in on any computer and quickly get back to the default with the click of a button (always the benefit that Pro Tools has).

In Cubase 10.5 my old key commands are crashing Cubase 10.5, not sure what key command is causing the issue but Cubase crashes and is missing many commands from the Logic Editor. I have attached the Key Commands that are causing the crash for me. The sad thing is I have made several other key commands first before I noticed all my Logical Editor commands are missing from my Macros even though they are in my Logical Editor.
2019-11-26.xml.zip (40.4 KB)

As far as the crashing due to a corrupt KC xml, try this-

Save a preset in the older version, then move the resultant file to the presets / key commands folder of the newer version and load it via the presets dropdown.

I’m not positive, but it appears that the KCs get cleaned up this way- worth a look maybe…

edit-- As far as the Logical editor shortcuts- I was just working in 10.5 in a project I created in 10.0 that uses a lot of PLE and LE shortcuts combined with macros, and all is working, which make think your prob would be consistent with a corrupt xml file. So maybe my above suggestion will help with that.

It is utter stupidity that you can’t simply export and import presets like in other daws. :unamused:
Honestly, Cubase needs a refresh in many of the nooks and crannies of the old code.

I agree with you on how frustrating it is. I am thankful to Steinberg about how many things you can modify and export and access like key commands and other preferences that they have broken out. I have depended on that with symbolic links and dropbox for a lot of my workflow which is not possible to the extent it is in Cubase in Pro Tools.

This, of course, does not excuse the need for figuring things out like exporting preferences. Hopefully, they can figure a way to keep it working with a single preference file in Cubase and Nuendo and they just disregard things they don’t have like they have done with their key commands for years.