Does anyone know whether Sonar (X3 in my case) provides any means to import/convert/translate .fxp or .fxb files to .vstpreset when the (third-party) plug-in in question does not? The particular case I have is using an ancient library of .fxp files for Waldorf Edition, which is now 64-bit VST3. Whoever would have thought that such old kit would be updated? Although using it is not a matter of life or death, it got me to wondering whether it could be done. There's a neat open-source converter called FXtractor that translates .vstpreset to .fxp but I can't find anything that goes in the direction that I need, probably because this functionality is present in Cubase, I believe.

maybe savi host? http://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm

Is there any chance that Waldorf Edition stores presets in it's own format? Because maybe then the VST3 version would open ones you save in VST2?
 
If that works, then you'd load the fxp files in to the VST2 version, save them as "native" Waldorf Edition presets, then open them, in the VST3 version.

@pwalpwal - Thanks for your interesting thought. I have VSThost installed, so I tried it and that does provide a route to load a .fxp in a VST3 plug (although you have to ignore the blood curdling error message) and then "save program as..." creates a .vstpreset that can be loaded into the VST3 plug in SONAR. I can't find a way of doing this at bank level, which I'm guessing is because the concept of bank files is not the same in VST3. You can't have everything.
 
@John - AFAIK Waldorf provides no special format. However, I discovered yesterday that Waldorf is committed to releasing Waldorf Edition 2 "second quarter 2015". So this might consign this problem to history. I'm doubtful about the promised date, however - Waldorf spent an astonishing amount of time developing the 64-bit versions of Largo (five release candidates before finalising) -  but no doubt they'll do it in the end. The good news is that existing licence holders can upgrade for only 10EUR - not bad for original software that is aeons old.