Komplete Kontrol VST2 missing after 3.0.0 update

Komplete Kontrol 3 does not have a VST2 version, as most modern applications too, they do not offer VST2 anymore. It is known since few months. People going back to older version only because the developers can not do the simplest thing! To maintain backwards compatibility. So, many users found their hard worked DAW projects empty! And of course they feel rightfully angry and they going back to the old version, because they used the VST2 version for their projects.

On the other hand, and with the risk to sound boring, since i repeat those words several times in this forum, please stop using this VST2, it is a dying format. Even Steinberg gave it an extra year of life, just for compatibility reasons. I can not understand this obsessive fixation for something old and half-dead since VST3 is far-far more superior in any aspect.

However, Native Instruments has a great responsibility here! They should fix this migration problem ASAP. It is far more important than anything else right now. It is a matter of company's reliability.

I am not failing to understand anything dear friend. I use Cubase for more than 20 years, since the end of the 90's and i am extremely familiar with the VST case.

I am also a musician and my music gets released since 2004, so i know very well this frustration you described. Like you and other people, almost all my projects was made with VST2.

But from the time i knew (almost 2 years ago) that VST2 is ending soon, i knew exactly what i must do, willingly or not. So, i chose to go boldly into the future instead of hiding behind the "known and convenient", even if that costed me lot of favorite sounds that had to be replaced.

So, at last, in the summer of 2022 i sit down for some days and i started to transform all my projects! Old plugins (such as the Albino) were replaced by new and fresh plugins and completely deleted.

Then i went to my projects and start replace every single VST2 with its VST3 version, and where ever that was not possible, i simply extracted the original sound as audio sample and then replaced the plugin with a new one. And at the end, not only i successfully transformed all my projects, but i even make them much better than they were!

I followed this simple process:

Replace VST2 with VST3 for non-migrated plugins:

• Open your project, and duplicate every track with a VST2 version.
• In the duplicated track, delete the VST2, and load its VST3 version.
• Load the correct instrument (the same you used in the VST2 version).
• Copy all other settings (Mixer setting, FX etc.), from the original track (in Cubase, is just a simple click) and paste them to the new one, the one with the VST3 version.
• Delete the original (VST2) track.
• Save project.
• Do the same for all your projects who have VST2 versions.

You can apply this procedure easily on the Komplete Kontrol case, and when finish you can install the new version (KK 3.1) and you are good to go. You do not have to wait eternally for a migration!

Why i did this? You see, i don't like to waste my time waiting for the others (companies, people etc.) because their speed is usually the turtle's speed, while mine is "Star Trek" class. This is not some kind of impatience, it is an inner need. "Fast" is my natural speed. Thus, i am used to find my own solutions on many things.

The reason that i urge people to do so, is that they risk to loose their projects. At some point in the near future will be no such thing as a "compatible VST2" and no one can guarantee you that every company will do the migration or if they simply, "by pass" the problem.

Of course, you can sit and wait for a migration, that's totally up to you, i am just offering a way out of this, for those who, like me, want to move fast instead of waiting.

Have a good day! :-)

Eh... one more reason i dislike Ableton and choose Cubase, every time, dear Alfonx :-)

In Cubase the "mapped and automated parameters" you mention, are instantly copied to the duplicated track so i have nothing to worry about... and on some rare cases, it is just a matter of a simple copy, and paste to the new channel ...1 sec job, on each channel :-)

And for some they are not migrating only on Windows - on Mac the NKS capable u-he plugins do migrate, and so do most Rob Papen ones now, but Softube as far as I can see have abandoned NKS completely, and FabFilter are simply not interested and don't even seem that interested in fixing bugs.