I have Groove Agent 5 and HALion 7.
I don’t have–and don’t want to use–Groove Agent SE and HALion Sonic.
Cubase asks for Groove Agent SE and HALion Sonic. I cannot figure out how to force Cubase to use Groove Agent 5 and HALion.
How do I force Cubase 14 to use Groove Agent 5 and HALion 7?
Hi,
Where exactly does Cubase ask you to use these Instruments?
If you add a new track, you can choose any instrument. If you open a project, it uses the instrument you used when saving the project.
The only place is, if you import a MIDI File. In this case HALion Sonic is always in use and you cannot change this.
I don’t have the SE or Sonic versions installed. No problem here with Cubase 14 using the full versions.
If it’s an older project that was using Sonic or GASE, first load it using those plugins. Save a multi of the plugin’s state (I.E. in each instance of Sonic, save a Multi Preset). Swap the plugin for the bigger brother versions on the instrument rack. Load those multi presets you saved before. Save your project. From now on it will use the big brother versions.
If you mean as the default plugin when ‘importing’ a General MIDI file…you can change in Preferences to “MIDI Tracks”, import any MIDI file. At first the tracks might be pointing to an undesired plugin or MIDI port. Load an instance of HALion into the instrument rack as a (rack instrument) and load up the General MIDI Multi preset inside HALion. Connect the track(s) of the MIDI file you’ve imported to it.
Delete the tracks.
Next time you import a MIDI file you should find that it connects to your defined instance of HALion with the proper alignment of channels and such.
Once you confirm a few imports connect as they should, make a project template. Project templates should remember the last thing You’ve connected MIDI tracks to and use that as the first default.
In short, if you want a particular plugin or device to become the default endpoint for imported MIDI files, establish that in a project template.
I could be mistaken, as I’m not at a workstation with Cubase at the moment, but I ‘think’ an alternative to importing a file and connecting it the first time ‘might’ be to make a brand new MIDI track first, connect it to your HALion instance, and then import a MIDI file. The gist of it is…I think when using the MIDI Track setting in preferences/MIDI/Import…Cubase will remember whatever plugin or device you last connected a MIDI track, and use that next time you ‘import’ a MIDI file.
AHA! Thanks Brian!
