i need help. I downloaded all the necessary files, and when it comes to the player nothing is sounding. I change between different playing templates… all the sounds are already downloaded and everytime exclamation marks appear. and nothing is sounding. everything appears like this: !! Halion Sonic!! and that with all the vsts and sounds except the “doricos Beep”
Please choose from the Dorico main menu Help > Create Diagnostic Report and post the corresponding zip file here. Thanks
The exclamation marks mean that Dorico can’t load or find HALion Sonic 7. The diagnostics will tell me what plug-ins and stuff Dorico does recognize.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (470.1 KB)
Thanks for the data.
You have only the old HALion Sonic SE 3.5 installed, but version 5 of Dorico is looking for HALion Sonic 7.0.20.
Please run the Steinberg Download Assistant and go to the Dorico area. There you find the Dorico installer for the actual application, as well as several other (recommended) packages. The first additional, recommended package is that of HALion Sonic 7.0.20, what does the button on the right say? Install or Install Again?
No matter what, click on it to install or reinstall it. And report back how things went in the end. Thanks
I have the same problem with my Spitfire BBC Core Plugin… I have no problem using it with my DAWs but with Dorico not working, the exclamation marks appear too… I already downloaded the templates from the Spitfire place… But I have the same problem… I checked up on Spitfires platform and the downloads a correct
Oh, I’ve checked again your diagnostics and now I see that you have many many VST3 plug-ins being blacklisted, for reasons I don’t know, yet.
Also HALion Sonic SE, HALion Sonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra are on the blacklist.
Please navigate to MackintoshHD/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/Dorico 5 AudioEngine and delete the folder Dorico 5 AudioEngine VST3 Cache
After that, start Dorico, which now rescans every VST3 plug-in again. Please send a new diagnostics report then. Thanks
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Now it works. Thanks!
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I found the folder and deleted it, but Dorico still launched with the prompt saying that I need to download Halion Sonic 7, which I’ve already downloaded?
Hi @jiaxin_jane_lu , then please so from Dorico’s menu Help > Create Diagnostic Report and post the corresponding zip file here. Thanks
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (431.0 KB)
here you go, thank you!
Strange, the audio engine does not detect any VST3 plug-in with you.
If you go to the STeinberg Download Assistant and there to the Dorico 5 area, does it show HALion Sonic 7.1 as already installed? If not, click on install.
If it says “Install again”, please click on that and let it install again.
Then start Dorico again, still no HALion Sonic?
Please post a fresh diagnostic report afterward. Thanks
Exactly, I cannot find any plugin on Dorico.
I have reinstalled Halion Sonic but it still launches with the reminder that Halion is missing.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (414.6 KB)
Here’s the new report and the screenshot of the prompt.
I created a topic earlier, and someone had the same problem. Please feel free to follow on that topic if you’d like or stay here.
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Would really appreciate it if it can be resolved. Really love Dorico and need to continue working with it.
Thank you!
Could you please have a look at
Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3
Is there anything inside that folder?
Ah, okay. You see the VST3 item with the little arrow on the left bottom side of the folder icon? That is a symbolic link to itself and leads to an endless recursion in the vstscanner. So please delete that item and start Dorico again
And please don’t open several threads on the same topic, that becomes too confusing and difficult to track.
Wow that really was it. Thank you so much Elf and I’ll post the solution on the other thread too!
@jiaxin_jane_lu , the most interesting question actually is, how did you manage to get that symbolic link into that folder?
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