VST Live Import/Song Export Issue

Here’s something that I’ve run into that I don’t understand:

  • I exported a bunch of songs from Cubase using the VST Live Export option. I then copied those complete folders onto my laptop. For the sake of this example, let’s say I put them in a folder called “E:\Cubase Exports”.
  • I use the “Import Media Project” in VST Live to bring the songs into VST Live. I set them all up with the appropriate parts (Intro, Verse 1, Chorus 1, etc)
  • Then I save the songs, using the VST Live “Save Song” feature, into individual folders for each song, such as E:\VST Live\Songs\songtitle
  • Then, I move or delete the original “E:\Cubase Exports” folder as I shouldn’t need it anymore-- all the songs should be saved in the VST Live song folder now.
  • But, when I load any of the songs into VST Live, the audio tracks don’t appear-- the tracks all show “Media Offline” in VST Live

What I found is that if I go back & put the “Cubase Exports” file where it originally was, then the songs will load correctly in VST Live. So something is still pointing to the old folder and not being saved properly when I “Save Song” in VST Live.

From what I can tell, there are a bunch of .peak files in the original Cubase folders that are NOT getting saved to the VST Live Songs folders when I use the “Save Song” function. They’re in the Cubase Export folder but not in the VST Live Song folders. Maybe that’s what VST Live is looking for? I tried copying the .peak folders into the VST Live Song folders, but that didn’t solve the problem-- if I move the original files, the Load Song function still doesn’t work properly.

Seems to me that when you Save a Song, everything you need should go with it, right? I should be able to move or delete the original files once a song has been saved by VST Live. What am I missing?

… thank you for your report. We’ll check,
Michael.

Any update on this?

Songs don’t save assets unless beeing told to, you may use the “Save Archive” function for the entire project.

VST Live tries everything to remember where files are, but if they cannot be found in the according folders (audio, midi etc) aside the current project (which should be saved once to fix its folder), and the original path is also no longer valid, there is nothing it could do.

If you choose “Save assets” when saving a Song, the files will end in the folder where you saved the Song. If you then move the Song folder or delete or move its files, it will also not be able to find the original filename saved with the Song.

If you know where the files are, you may try and move or copy those to the audio, midi etc folder where the currently active project resides, it should then find it (maybe need to reload the project).