Traveler Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Hello all, Last night I finished building a new DAW for Cakewalk and installed Win 11 Pro. Over the next week I plan to migrate all my templates and VST presets over to the new DAW (some are native Cakewalk and the rest are 3rd party). I know where all my Cakewalk templates are stored but is there a common folder for VST user presets? Or will this be a hunt & seek for all my user presets in Waves, Slate, SoundToys, Universal Audio, FabFilter, Arturia, etc? Many thanks!! Reggie New DAW specs: Motherboard – ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero Processor – 3.2GHz (5.2 Turbo) sixteen-core 12th-generation Intel Core i9-12900K CPU Cooler – Noctua NH-D15 RAM – DDR5 5600MHz, Kingston Fury Beast 64GB (2 x 32GB) M.2_1 – Samsung 980 PRO SSD 1TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 M.2 SSD (2280) M.2_2 – Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 3 M.2 SSD (2280) M.2_3 – Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 M.2 SSD (2280) SATA – Western Digital Black 2TB 7200 RPM 3.5” HDD Graphics Card – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Enclosure – be quiet! Silent Base 802 Power Supply – Corsair RM1000x Software – Windows 11 Pro Peripheral Hardware – UA Apollo Duo with Thunderbolt 3 Option Card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott MacBride Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Most of them are stored under various sub-folders in your Documents directory. Usually under the name of the plug-in manufacturer. So yes, probably a hunt & seek excercise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveler Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 Thanks Scott, I'll start searching today. Cheers, Reggie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveler Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 I wanted to report back that I transferred all my presets to the new DAW. It was truly a hunt & seek process that took a few days. First, I used Cakewalk's Plug-in Manager to export my user presets for each plug-in as a .spp file. This took a while because I had to remember each plug-in that I created user presets for. But all was not bliss because some of the .spp preset files wouldn't import into the new Cakewalk Plug-in Manager. So for those bad ones, I exported the presets directly from each plug-in as a .fxp preset file. The .fxp presets uploaded with no trouble. Second, several of the plug-ins stored user presets in different location like: Documents, Program Files, ProgramData, Users locations... just everywhere. But I got them all! Last, some of the plug-ins were discontinued and I had to be creative to transfer them to the new DAW. I searched for all their root directories in the old DAW and copied them to a thumb drive, then pasted them to the same directories in the new DAW. Cakewalk saw them and accepted them! Some of those plug-ins required me to re-register them and fortunately I keep all my registration data, so all was good (I even have my Cakewalk Pro Audio 6 CD from the 90's). I hope this helps anyone who's migrating to a new computer. And the new computer is amazing! Opened a project with 84 stereo tracks, 20+ auxs and tons of plug-ins and the CPU meter hovers between 5-10% and memory usage at 16GB (this project brought my old DAW to its knees). I followed Sweetwater's Windows 11 optimization guide and the performance is rock solid. Cheers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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