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#summary Project Overview
=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.
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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
[http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=114407 a very long thread]
in the german part of the Steinberg user forum the idea for this small tool
was born.
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.