I have an instrument, made on a former Windows 10 installation, with vst2 plugins. Now on my new system I have only the vst3 versions installed, hence Renoise can’t find the vsts’s needed for the instrument.
Is it possible to edit the instrument file and replace the vst2 paths with the new vst3 paths?
It’s not only a lot of vst’s I have to replace now, but I also would miss the vsts’ settings if I just replace them in Renoise.
No, that is not possible in Renoise, VST3 uses a different preset structure than VST2, so Renoise can’t magically load a vst2 preset data into the VST3. The only way in Renoise here is to manually save the presets as the plugin native format and then load that preset in the vst3 version. I would do that on the old machine, so you will have to install vst3 versions first.
I think the recent Cubase has a mechanism to actually convert the VST2 preset to VST3, so it will load the VST3 version instead. So technically it seems to be possible to convert the fxp structure to a .vstpreset structure. I guess only Steinberg knows for sure.
Maybe I’ll just install the vst2 versions alongside, hope they open, save the settings to presets and ditch the vst2’s afterwards. I think it’s worth the hassle, it was a great kick instrument