Upgrading Cubase... Do I have to reinstall plugins too?

[Mttq]

Hi all, a clueless gearslug here.

I'm planning to upgrade Cubase5 to 8.

For all the vstis, do I have to reinstall all of them from scratch, or just moving dll would work? (It feels like a nightmare to reinstall everything...)

Also, can I keep both cubase 5 and 8 in my pc, just incase I would like to bounce back to Cubase 5?

Thanks!

 

[jimmys69]

Plugins will stay in the VST Plugins folder. No need to reinstall them.

Yes you can have both installed and use them separately. Once you open a Cubase 5 cpr file in Cubase 8 and save it, it will not open in 5. Just make sure to rename them so you still have the original. Better yet would be to backup your Cubase 5 files on a separate drive just in case.

 

[rob aylestone]

Cubase renames the old files with a new name - re: the plug-ins. Not all the paths may be picked up if you keep things in odd places, took me a while going from 8 to 8.5 to find out why some vanished. eventually just opened up the old one and wrote down the places it had and put the same tree in the new one.