After five reinstalls of Halion 7 I still have no instrument icons visible in the Halion 7 media browser. All the various Halion 6 content that I would have seen is missing.
My media bay looks like this;
IT ought to have lots of icons on it, and the first time it installed halion 7 before it did some update somewhere, it worked and I had icons for FM Lab and others. Now, none.
Here’s how it looks on other people’s youtube videos…
In another thread someone said just rescan. Well they removed the rescan icon. How do I get the icons back for FM lab, Amped Elektra, Auron, various add-on libraries from Absolute 6, and everything else?
This content all registers in the Library manager … It’s there and visible.
But it won’t show up in Halion 7 on my mac. The install went fine on my windows machine, but I do all my real work on this mac, and this mac’s installation appears to have been screwed up so badly that even deleting everything and trying again is not working. By everything I mean, everything under /Library, and everything in Applications, and everything under User/Library.
I think Halion needs to be told to rebuild its indexes or something but the button that used to do that is gone. There are many signs of craziness in the forum since Halion 7 dropped with content just going away.
There seem to have been lots of recent content updates for halion sonic also in Steinberg Download Manager:
thanks for your solution. The same just happened to me. A lot of instruments suddenly missing. No idea why and how this can happen.
In the Steinberg Library Manager, they are all there. Really strange. Never had this before. Halion 7 is installed since March 2023. Never any issues. And now this.
P.S.
Too bad I rejoiced too soon. I don’t have such a file. Neither .db, nor mediabay. And yes, I also searched in the system files.
P.P.S
Found it. Path Ventura is
~/Library/Preferences/Steinberg MediaBay Server/
But anyways not working
Also what is suggest here by Jan Riesener
And now in 2025, after this last update, I am having that issue. deleted the mediabay3.db file, restarted Halion 7 stand alone, still empty, just the ALL.
After digging around, I had to reinstall media bay. Worked for stand alone and in Cubase 14
I have just installed a new M4 Mac with a clean install of Cubase 15 Pro. By the time I’d finished installing all my plugins, libraries and working out what wasn’t working on Silicon platform, I had the problem above. Namely, Halion Sonic (and Cubase) started really slowly and I had a single ‘ALL’ Icon displaying in HS instead of the various libraries. I spent the whole day removing preferences, removing every copy I could find of mediabay3.db, moving library content, re-installing libraries. Absolutely nothing worked except @sulblk27 's solution of re-installing Media Bay software. After that everything starts up really quickly (as I’d expect for a Mac M4!) and all the icons are there.
There’s so many layers of bugs and glitches in the vstsound system, the steinberg media library, the downloader, and the library management GUI, that I’ve nearly given up on ever having a working product from Steinberg ever again.
And none of the mentioned solutions worked 