Cracked to Retail

[LabRat]

I was given a plugin from a buddy to try out and it's cracked. It works ok until a particular point in the project until the whole thing shit's itself. I like the plugin a lot so i'm gonna go buy it today. This is a bit of a noob question (which i probably already know the answer to) but i just wanna make sure coz i don't wanna lose hours of work.

If i remove the cracked version and replace it with the retail version would all my midi information / preset amendments remain the same, or should I bounce all the tracks using this plugin to audio?

[Mitch]

You can replace the plugin and it will work. But wouldn't hurt to bounce stems as a backup

[LabRat]

^

that's exactly what i thought.

[Mitch]

Yep, the preset and plugin details are saved in the project. So you just remove the dodgy version and install the proper version and the project will know to use the new version