Cubase 8 - coming soon?

Jalcide · December 5, 2014, 7:41pm

monsterjazzlicks:

Jalcide:

The upgrade and authorization itself is very simple and straightforward. Also, it will not overwrite your current 7.5 and you still run 7.5 even after 8 has been installed.

So it won’t interfere with your Cubase settings in 7.5, but also will not transfer over your old settings. So, you’ll have to set up the VST Connection settings, audio interface in/outs, MIDI ins/outs, windows, preferences, colors, etc.

I’m sure there are clever ways to copy pref files over, but I wouldn’t do it. Just start.

Thanks Jalcide,

So could I simply install the UPGRADE to ARTIST 8.5 and then uninstall my copy of ARTIST 7.5? Because I would not be requiring the latter anymore.

Also, do you think it will affect JBridge and my Groove Agent? Or will this need to be configured again please?

Ta,

Paul

I would recommend leaving 7.5 installed for the following reasons:

To ensure you can open any previous project (8 should be fine, but you never know).
In case you need to reinstall the 8 update, having 7.5 may be required (I’m not sure, but to be safe).
To help troubleshoot anything weird happening in 8, having 7.5 to test in would be helpful
To avoid inadvertently uninstalling any shared content.
And because content aside (which you could manually delete), it doesn’t take up that much space.

Sorry, never used JBridge or Groove Agent, but there must be a way to export from GA.

That said, Steinberg is notorious for making it difficult to “get at” stuff. I’m not sure if there are prefs related to GA that would be lost (but could probably be moved over from an Xml file).

Not sure about JBridge, try searching Gearslutz and KVRAudio forums, but if it doesn’t work, for some reason, there are many other options (DDMF Metaplugin, VSTForx, Nomad Factory Magma, Blue Cat Audio Patchwork).

If you find out anything, be sure to report back in the new Cubase 8 forum.

Cheers.