Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]

auricle
Thanks Noel.
Would it be possible to drag & drop .vstpreset files from the browser directly onto a VST3 plugin? Would that work?

No but it would be a nice enhancement :)

It would be great if you could work your magic on that one ;)

To expand on the topic, it would be wonderful if we could use the browser for preset searching and general management with advanced search functions.

just an fyi in padshop you can load vst3 presets from the ui.  click the ↑↓ icon in the synth and select import preset.  navigate to the C:\ProgramData\VST3 Presets\Steinberg Media Technologies\Padshop directory and a sub-directory and select a preset.  unfortunately, retrologue has no facility for opening presets.

I'm looking for the location of Dimension Pro presets specifically.  Although I am seeing these when I plug Dimension Pro to a new project, I cannot find the actual file (other than the project *.cwp) where the Dimension Pro Preset is stored.  I am hoping to be able to migrate these presets from my old system.  Amy assistance would be appreciated

The DPro browser shows program files in C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Programs

scook
The DPro browser shows program files in C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Programs

 
Scook, I'm looking for presets, not programs. 

I have seen others refer to DP programs as presets. To avoid confusion here is an image showing the different areas on the DP UI

The presets in the red box are stored in the registry. There are export and import functions in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager for these presets. The green box contains the menu for the VST preset manager. These are stored in files on the HD at a location of your choosing. The purple box contains the DP Program Browsers, the contents displayed in this box is in the path provided in my previous post.

scook
I have seen others refer to DP programs as presets. To avoid confusion here is an image showing the different areas on the DP UI

The presets in the red box are stored in the registry. There are export and import functions in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager for these presets. The green box contains the menu for the VST preset manager. These are stored in files on the HD at a location of your choosing. The purple box contains the DP Program Browsers, the contents displayed in this box is in the path provided in my previous post.

 
Scook,
 
I'm a longtime Sonar user and well aware of the differences between a program and a preset.  Yes, I was reminded by a kb article that these are kept in the registry.  My old PC failed abruptly and I neglected to back up the presets from the Plug-In Manager.  The old system drive and registry files are accessible however. 
 
As I see it, my options are:
A) Try to bring up Win 10 on the old system, launch Sonar and export presets.
B) Try to get the registry information exported from the old system hard drive. 


I'm guessing that I would need some kind of utility that can read the registry hive / files from a system drive without actually bringing the OS up.  Not sure if that even exists.  Then I could export the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music..." branch to a .reg file and import it into the new system.  of course, I would probably have to be more selective about exporting an importing, limiting this to the plug-in manager data.

What are your thoughts?

If you can get the old drive attached to the new machine or a copy of the old ntuser.dat somewhere on the new PC,  regedit may do what you want. I found quite a few posts using Google about reading registry files from non-system disks.

I'm always reluctant to update registry files, but it's starting to look like that's the only option.  Old system will not boot from the old system drive.  I can put the old drive in a USB dock, and try that approach.  


Which NTUSER.DAT would you look in?  C:\users\<My Login User>, C:\users\<All Users>...?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music is stored in NTUSER.DAT, right?