Is is possible to import a VST live project into Cubase (am using Cubase 13) ?
I had a session in VST Live (songs with layers and global song), now i want to import all that into Cubase and do the recording track by track and to get more control of various aspects of the track.
Yepp 
I have C13 too and there is a dedicated entry under FILE dropdown menu to export to-/import from VST Live. For sure, you need to do the export under VST Live first.
Below I am mentioning the steps I did so you can guide me if i did something wrong in these steps. Anyway am not seeing anything getting imported into cubase session from vst live.
This is my VST Live setup (all parts in global and song 1 are using halion 7 instrument only):
Under Global I have 4 parts.
1 Song with 2 parts.
I export like this:
I did the export from under File menu and from under Song menu
In cubase I use this menu to import the File_Export.mediaprj file.
I don’t see anything in cubase after the import of File_Export.mediaprj file
you expect to see your LAYERS under Cubase13, right?
As for as I know, there aren’t layers in cubase, therefore won’t see layers.
Do the same test but create new audio and MIDI track under VL. Put some content there, export / import, tell me if you see those content in cubase then?
Yes was expecting to see the layers as MIDI tracks under a group (something like that) in Cubase.
When I created a midi track and audio track in vst live then export/import in cubase is showing the audio and midi tracks created.
tracks and layers are two different things.
VST Live is handy to test ideas and to record that to a wav file.
But if I want to use the vst live session to do a real track by track recording and polishing of the sound for production release, should I manually re-create the entire things I created in vst live in cubase?
Just trying to understand what is the ideal way to do this kind of things.
Tracks are exported to and imported from Cubase.
Layers are not, because there are no Layers in Cubase.
So if you record stuff on Tracks, those should show up in Cubase fine.
So…What exactly is your problem?
Actually I didn’t had tracks foe each layers, because I was setting up VST Live for live playing scenario. So Global will have the common stuff which will be played for all parts of the song, mostly played on the left side of the keyboard and Song and its parts to be played on the right side.
So you telling for each layers in VST Live there should be a midi track/audio track to which I need to record midi/audio data first and then do the export/import right?
Yes, only tracks are exported to a media project.
I see there is option to record on layers inside part which will create a track for the layer
But the parts under Globals don’t have that record option to create a track.
(But I can manually create it)
Other thing I noticed is that, once track is created from each layer, then output won’t be heard from the layers unless the monitor button is switched ON on the tracks. Is there a way to disable this functionality?
yes, actually Global Layers can’t be sticked to a song-track… as song-tracks are coming and leaving with song changes, but global layers need “globally always alailable” output. Does it make sense somehow?
I have imported the vst live .mediaprj file into cubase and i see the midi tracks with the midi data on it. But no instruments on the midi track and thus no sound coming from the midi tracks, is that by design?
If that is by design, what is the purpose of such export and import?
… only Instrument-Tracks will be transferred with their Instrument. I guess your MIDI Tracks in Cubase are routed to Instruments in the Rack? That’s not supported. Sorry.
/Michael.
All MIDI tracks are getting the same MIDI data while recording.
While doing the play back of the recorded MIDI tracks in VST Live its playing it correctly, but after import into Cubase and if I attach the MIDI track to a VST Instrument, then i hear all the other sounds.
For example on “Right - String Track”, track, its only supposed to only record what ever comes from the String layer (under Song 1) right?
That’s no longer true with the last Version that came today! It should work now.
That is true, because it is ambiguous. Global Part Layers and Stacks are, well, global, so when you assign a track, that only works for the current Song. When you select another Song, that assignment is obviously lost.
As said, as of todays’ version, you can assign audio tracks to global Part Stacks, but you have to do it manually (as you figured out already), because there is no “global Track”.
Wow:)
So you mean each layers should be set with a unique channel there?
