#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST FOR MAC#
#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST INSTALL#
#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST UPDATE#

I opened Cubase for the first time in probably 3 years. Nope. I was thinking maybe if I open Halion on my main DAW which has Cubase installed I could figure out were the heck the sound library is. According to the manual the library should be installed along side the VST in the Steinberg VST folder.

#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST FOR MAC#

I tried Google but all returns are for Mac users. I do use Wave Lab a Lot but I am slowly finding other ways to do those tasks- for free- and more intuitive software that doesn't drive you nuts. Oh, this is #1 reason I never switched over to Cubase when Cakewalk died. So Welcome to Steinberg folks- enjoy the ride. This is basically one of those pointless exercises in frustration EVERY step of the way. And it is odd that it doesn't warn you or something when it loads? I used the default pathways ( there was no choices) There's a Library Manager I opened and it said there are no licensed Libraries found? I looked in all likely locations and found no libraries. Digging around it seems there's nothing? All the menus are empty. This seemed to work except the Halion had no sounds loaded. But there it was, So I opened a GM midi file to test and inserted it and deleted TTS_1. I then open Cakewalk and had to add the Halion sub folder to the scan path to get it scanned. I don't use an ASIO interface on this computer right now because I don't record, just edit and TRY NEW VST's. I opened the stand alone version and this is were I found out I couldn't use it with on board audio. Took 15 minutes to get that working and I managed to add the license to the manager. Ya, 99% of the time, today was that 1% day. The good thing is it sort of work 99% of the time and I can move between computers easily. Years ago I got so fed up with the software licenser I had to fork over $35 for a USB dongle. This is were Steinberg sort of sucks big time. Now first thing you have to do is activate it. It won't work in stand alone with on board sound cards without that stupid driver.

#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST INSTALL#

If you only have on board audio then you will have to install this as there will be no other choices. Otherwise it becomes your Timing master in Sync and Caching, not a good thing. Knowing this is a real nasty takeover of my ASIO system for Cakewalk I did the smart thing and unchecked this. WARNING- On install it has the list of items to be installed and one of them is that pesky Steinberg Generic ASIO driver. It took a long time to download due to large library.

I'm already registered but Steinberg didn't like my password so had to go through all that BS which seems like every time I log in to my account. OK- you gotta register, no big deal this is expected from some freebies.

I also thought this might be a good replacement for TTS-1 because it too is a GM player.

#HALION SONIC SE 2 INSTRUMENT LIST UPDATE#

I have Cubase 7 Elements and it came with a Older SE version, this one might be an update so I thought I'd follow through. Thanks for the heads up on the Free version of Halion VST3.

Halion sonic se 2 instrument list