HALion 6 content location???

[trhoffendjr]

What is the current status of Halion 6 installation and location including content?

I have been away from Steinberg products for a while due to a major job change and move. Rebuilding my home studio, including my large main DAW computer is still a work in progress and I am engaging in all of my music-making on a Xeon-based mobile workstation for now. I just bought the upgrade from H5 to H6 (sale, yay!) and this will be a clean install of 6. I don’t want to clutter my system drive on the mobile workstation. I have a 1TB SSD for samples etc. My Kontakt (and all Komplete) libraries of importance are there already as are Falcon and favored UVI libraries. NI makes it easy to choose a drive for content installation when Komplete is installed.

Has Steinberg changed its infatuation with forcing installation of libraries on the system drive under user data or am I stuck with installing there and jumping through hoops to move the Halion libraries later? Forcing installation on the system drive is a very archaeic way of doing an install and should absolutely not be required for a modern piece of software. I downloaded everything to my sampe drive but have not tried an install yet.

[DarrenGlen]

hi all, glad I found this thread I have Halion 3, Halion 4, Halion 5 content on my D: Drive from upgrading along the path over the years.

Now ive installed Halion 6 (phew!). and its thrown it on my small SSD drive (like everyone else) without asking (grrr)

so heres my questions:

1:/ can I delete all the library files for 3, 4 and 5 finally…ie does Halion 6 have ALL the content/sounds/presets of the earlier ones?

2:/ Has Steinberg changed the vstsound files as they have gone along…or have they simply added more files to the library? ie if I did a file comparison of the different libraries and deleted files with the same name…will they be the same file length? identical data inside?

3:/ on my drive C there is two folders of VST Sound:

c:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound
and
c:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\HALion\VST Sound

none of the filenames are exactly the same…what a mess. why are there 2 folders…?

many thanks!

[Brian_Roland]

For what it’s worth this late in the thread…

When I want to install something and the system drive is out of room, I’ll create an ntfs file junction to a new partion/drive before installing the app.

Here is a thread on the process.

Computer für Audioanwendungen

[AudioSuperSite]

@BobbyRyan

I used the Steinberg Download Assistant and it proceeded to download 14 huge files (13 of them RAR files) and it didn’t prompt me where to download it. It defaulted to This PC\Local Disk C:\Users\Owner\Downloads\Steinberg\WIN64\HALion 6. I assumed that as I installed it I’d be prompted to those 2 important things, location of my main VST Plugins folder, and the most important thing where do I want my content placed. I was asked neither. I updated eLicenser and successfully got the license working. I happened to be looking in ‘This PC’ with the list of my drives and my C: drive was in bright red. It’s a solid state drive and I was close to being full. I went to where my downloads went and deleted those and it put me back in the blue, but still very high. I needed to move that content. I found the folder, moved it to my secondary drive and assumed when I launch HALion 6 I’d be prompted to the new location but it didn’t. HALion 6 was right there showing a number of 5014 preset/sounds. So, I deleted the content files I moved, emptied the recycle bin and purged my computer of HALion 6 content…NOT!! Somewhere else on my C: drive is another set of content, which explains why I had 3 times the amount of content on my C: drive. Luckily, thanks to Acronis True Image, I can purge my entire C: drive and put it back to my last back up (Jan. 30, 2017) and start all over again. Judging by the amount of data on my C: drive there’s still roughly another 25 GB to account for. But before I go through this all over again, where is that 3rd content hiding? HALion 6 says it’s there, even though I’ve deleted both download and unzipped content. PLEASE HELP!!
Bobby Ryan.

Have a look on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB_coW-1hoA