Re:This "upgrade" thing & presets
2011/09/25 23:55:44
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I had similar issues with a Dim Pro upgrade (and Rapture). I can't answer for Guitar Rig, but here are some things I learned:
1) Finish the project first, THEN upgrade.
2) Yes, save and name your presets. It's a hassle for me too, but I've learned (the hard way) to do it. I ended up reusing them a lot anyway, so for me it was a good idea for my efficiency as well.
3) Before any upgrade, make sure you have a fallback route. One route is system restore, to undo the upgrade. Another is having old and new versions installed side-by-side, like 8.5 living with X1 (that's the only way I could ever approach X1, I can revert back to 8.5 regularly when the frustrations get too much--another story). I don't know about two versions of Guitar Rig existing side-by-side, I doubt it. Two machines work great in this case. I was lucky to have a performance version of everything on a laptop, which I DID NOT upgrade (with Dim Pro and Rapture) until I knew all projects in question had made the jump. That way, when a project had problems loading on the upgraded daw, I could load it on the un-upgraded laptop, see what was missing, write it down, recreate on the upgraded project. A significant hassle, but my important work was savable. (Non-important work is still sitting in a get-around-to-it folder, sort of a recycle-bin-II.)
4) Freezing is your friend. Frozen tracks will make the jump and still sound just the way you want. You can use them to make sure your new GR set up matches your old GR. So, bounce to track is probably a better option in that case, you have the "original" track and an audio copy as insurance.
5) Sometimes when I had missing settings when jumping across upgrades, I decided the settings weren't that sacred anyway. On some projects, I was probably in a better position (through learning experiences in the meantime) to improve things apply better settings/patches anyway.