Opening Old Projects

I'm determined to get this to work, with the ultimate aim of abandoning 8.5
 
A number of you will already be familiar with my reported problems loading 8.5 & older projects into X1, and having read many suggested workarounds, the one that seems to work is this:
 
1 - Open old project in Safe Mode
2 - Enable all plugins with the exception of the Sonitus EQ
3 - Rebuild the EQ
 
Now, so far so good, but there's a small hiccup.
 
The intention is to use the EQ section in the Pro Channel to re-create the EQ, but whenever I select a track that has an instance of the built in Sonitus EQ from 8.5, Pro Channel turns round and says "You are currently using the Sonitus:fx EQ on this channel. To upgrade to the new Pro channel EQ, discard the Sonitus :fx EQ by Control + click on this button"
 
So......why can't I see this Sonitus EQ anywhere?
 
It doesn't show anywhere in X1's UI.
 
Any thoughts people?

It's hidden. If you double click the EQ graph it should pop up when it's loaded - which it's not in your case.

Excellent. That clears up my first problem.

Now, here's the second, albeit closely related.

In 8.5, my approach to EQ was to use the Inline EQ for basic HPF & LPF filtering.
All of my tonal shaping was done via an instance (or 2) of the Sonitus in the FX Bin.
This is because sometimes I want to EQ after I compress, sometimes before, various reasons.

So, if I were to replicate my EQ settings in the Inline EQ, then delete the Sonitus from the Fx Bin, would these settings then be replicated in the Pro Channel after importing into X1C?

I'm just trying to find a way to avoid having to manually make a note of every single instance of the Sonitus EQ in 8.5 projects so I can continue working with them in X1C.

There must be many hundreds of instances of the Sonitus in my projects, and the thought of having to manually re-create these is something I'd rather not think about.

X1 is fully backwards compatible with the inline eq from 8.5 so if you save a project from there with the eq enabled X1 will bring in the eq settings intact. You can manage the eq settings in X1 as I described earlier. If you then want to switch to the new Prochannel eq at a later time you will have to try and match the eq settings manually with the new eq, But simply loading an 8.5 project will sound identical.

Have you submitted a problem report with a project attached? We can look into it and find out why that is happening.

Noel, I've just sent you a PM but your inbox is full