Have to Rebuild DAW. Advice needed...
My DAW is dying and so I'm at the point of having to rebuild from scratch starting with a fresh Windows install. I'm currently on Win7 64bit running Sonar X3 Producer 64bit, but planning on going to Win8 64bit. I still use some plugins from prior versions of Sonar (I have upgraded with every version of Sonar). I especially use the Vintage Channel plugin for vocals (yes I know its 64bit). Here are the questions I need advice on:
- Is there a listing of plugins by version? I know many have been included in many versions, but some are unique to specific versions. Could anyone point me to a comparative list that already exists?
- Will I need to install each version of Sonar that contains unique plugins? I'm hoping not. For example, could I just copy the Vintage Channel .dll file to the plugin directory and be ok? FYI - I do have a separate hard drive on which all my samples for virtual instruments are stored so that I don't have to reload all of those.
- If I do have to reinstall each version of Sonar that contains unique
- Any other advice for making this migration/rebuild as smooth, fast and painless as possible. (Yes - I have an image of my current installation and even tried copying it to a new SSD drive but got the same poor results.
Thanks all. I feel like I'm missing an arm without my DAW in fine working order.