CUBASE 10 & HALION SONIC SE3 - MISSING INSTRUMENTS/VOICINGS?

[hnia6]

Years ago, I upgraded from Cubase Artist 6 to 10.0.6 Pro. I have no access to Artist 6 anymore. When I open many of my projects, I get the attached popup.


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I found that some Halion Sonic SE3 (HSSE3) instruments or voicings can’t be heard. Examples include MelloStrings, Double Bass, Backing Section, Hard Grand Piano, Ambient Kit, Cello Duo and others. I'm not missing any actual audio files such as wav. I'm only missing voicings with Halion Sonic tracks.

There's no issue creating a new track and HSSE3 will work great with available voice options.

I am worried that I’m missing a bunch of voices/instruments. This has been driving me crazy. Hopefully, someone can help me figure this out.

 

[hnia6]

I also saw this.... maybe it adds needed detail?

 

[rob aylestone]

Get this all the time on older projects. Often annoyingly on old drum kits. I had a period where i used many kits, particularly the maple kit, yet while my home studio system finds maple samples, the system in the office, with pretty much identical installation hasn’t got them. I thought it was 32 bit vas 64 bit issues causing it, but i copied entire libraries from home, put them in the same place in the office and they don’t work. One missing halion instrument i did cure because checking home vs office i found it installed in a totally different and random location. Have you tried finding a preset that loads and then searching for its location to see what else is in the same place. When you say you have not lost the wavs, do you mean the samples are findable and intact, but just will not load?

 

[hnia6]

Hi Rob.

No, I wasn't referring to the samples. I didn't loose actual audio waves that I recorded via microphones. I searched for specific voices and/or presets by name. No luck.

Is all the VST sound supposed to be in C:/Program Data/Steinberg/Content/Halion/VST Sound? I have 46 VST Sound Archive files there and that's definitely a light amount.

Check out the attached screenshots. The first is the location of the above noted 46 files. The middle image shows 6 more sound archives located in C:/Program Files/Steinberg/Cubase 10/VST Sound. Why segragated? I can't tell what voices they are.

Are the VST Sound Archives the actual voice files? (I'm just a dumb non-blonde girl with a nice ass! hee hee)

The third image shows an example of a project with "Halion Cello" missing. I see the midi - it all looks normal, but no sound. when I try to load a voice, it shows only ONE option for any stringed instrument, which is a preset I created a long time ago. I guess presets don't necessisarily fall victim to this nightmare.

I just did a search for the extension, ".vstsound" and they're all over the place. I have 455 in total, but not all are dedicated to Halion.

I have another folder in my A Drive (intentionally separated from the boot drive) at: Documents/Applications/Cubase 10.5 Installer_win/Cubase 10.5/Additional Content/VST Sound/Halion Sonic SE Content. - I downloaded 10.5 and thought it was a free update. Found out it wasn't and uninstalled it. This stuff was left over. It looks like most of it is dublicative of the 46 files referenced above.

If you or anyone can help me solve this aggravating nightmare, I'd be so grateful. I think most everyone just gives up and spends $$$ on the latest release?

 

[rob aylestone]

The sample files. Cubase is looking for X sample set in Y directory on drive Z - or any version, and somehow one of two things has happened, the actual sample file - which can be any file type really - have been moved, or deleted, or more often, cubase is looking in the wrong place. in the vsti manager, there is an option to see vsti's that are active and those on a blacklist - ones that perhaps are now too outdated or the wrong file types for the current software. It also has a section where you add a path to wherever the samples are hiding. The idea is to search your drive for the name that is missing and see if you find them hidden away somewhere - if so you can then add that location to the path at the bottom, and on startup cubase will look in the usual places and then pop off to any other location you have highlighted.