FXTractor

fxtractor is a small helper tool for users of the music software products from Steinberg. It allows conversion and interchange of old and new effect- and synth-preset formats.

History

With the introduction of the Media Bay in Cubase4 and Nuendo4 Steinberg decided to drop support for the old but well established FXB and FXP preset data file formats. While import of plugin presets is still supported (at least one by one) exporting has been removed completely. This was a major annoyance for many people as the lack of FXP and FXB support makes plugin preset exchange with users of other DAWs virtually impossible and backup of presets a PITA. After a very long thread in the german part of the Steinberg user forum the idea for this small tool was born.

What does it do?

Basically FXTractor is a small tool to convert new Vst3 VSTPRESET files to old style Vst2 FXP and FXB files (if possible). Please remember: This tool is totally unsupported from Steinberg. It is a user contribution to the Cubase community written to help other users.

Status

This software works pretty well in it's current state but it is still under constant development. So please don't expect it to work perfectly out of the box all of the time. If you find a vstprest that doesn't work then create a bug report (see 'issue' above) and attach the file along with a description of the host and plugin used and we'll have look at it.

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