I’ve just bought and installed new laptop with Win8.1 [to be honest I really hate this, because I’ve spent lots of time to make all VST plugins work on Win7, now Laptop do not allow me to install less than Win8 on it]
So when I open my working songs, I got text like this:
"The following plugins could not be found or failed to open:
Track 01 (Ritam): VST: IK Multimedia Production: TRackS3
Track 05 (bass): VST: IK Multimedia Production: TRackS3
Track 09 (KREKET): VST: IK Multimedia Production: TRackS3
Track 11 (Mst): VST: IK Multimedia Production: TRackS3"
etc.
Ok - TRacks3 don’t work under Win8, - I’ve updated to latest TRacks4.
After installing working TRacks4 - TRacks V3 requester still keeps popping up as missing.
Question:
Is there ANY easy way to replace missing [non-working] TRacks3 [or similar plugins] with working one [TRacks4 or other] in Renoise so my song will load correctly OR I will have to replace manually FX by FX on each track for each song on my hard disk? I have to say that all my songs had one or more TRacks VFXes on it.
You can try to rename the plugin name to tracks4 in the song.xml, but I doubt it will work. You should save your presets in tracks3 using its native file type and then import these to tracks4. And then replace with tracks4 instances.
You can try to rename the plugin name to tracks4 in the song.xml, but I doubt it will work. You should save your presets in tracks3 using its native file type and then import these to tracks4. And then replace with tracks4 instances.
Aha I see… Pity there is no possibility to Right-Click on a plugin and do replacement I still have Win7 on my desktop - so I might try this tip with presets. Thank you!
Pity there is no possibility to Right-Click on a plugin and do replacement
Something like this could be possible in situations where you need to re-locate the exact same plugin — perhaps because you’ve renamed the file itself in between projects, or you’ve restored from an old backup, etc.
However, when changing from one major version of a plugin to another newer one — like upgrading from T-Racks v3 to v4 — then it’s quite likely that the internal structure of the plugin has changed a bit, and in some cases may be completely different. The VST program/preset data may no longer be compatible, or the parameter arrangement could have changed so that any Renoise automations are now being applied to the wrong things entirely, etc.
There’s simply no guarantee that allowing such a plugin swap will do anything useful at all. Worse still, if we’re trying to force one plugin to accept the data from another, then it may result in a totally unstable situation and/or crashes that could ruin your work without warning.
I still have Win7 on my desktop - so I might try this tip with presets. Thank you!