HALion 7 license not found

Dorico
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Greetings fellow Doricons!
Since the recent update version 5.1.60.2187 (Oct 8 2024), Steinberg Activation Manager is telling me “No license for HALion7 has been found on your computer, so the software cannot run.” I’ve noticed many of the default Playback sounds didn’t occur on two new projects. I was able figure out how to make instrument selections in Play Mode, but still no pizzacatto for strings and many percussion and drum set sounds don’t match the notation whereas they would in previous projects.

I’m grateful for any help or insight you might have.

(Not sure if this is related, but the Steinberg Download Assistant has never worked on my computer in the last 3 years.)

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HALion 7 is not part of the Dorico license, so unless you have bought a separate license for this product, the message is correct.

The Dorico license includes only HALion Sonic 7, which is just the player, instead of the full instrument.

If you have all the required components installed this shouldn’t matter. However, what is the problem with the Download Assistant and what Operating System are you using?

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Okay. If if HALion 7 is not the default software why would Steinberg suddenly make it an issue? Still doesn’t explain the changes in sounds since the update.

I’m running MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1

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I hope the question above doesn’t sound defensive or snarky. I’m just trying to get to the bottom of this.

The Download Assistant itself has always downloaded and installed. However, when it tries to open, nothing happens and it force quits.

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Did you at some time run a trial of Halion7?

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Nope. Not to my knowledge.

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If you upload your diagnostics, I’m sure someone will be able to sort out what’s going on.

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Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.3 MB)

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Thanks for the data, @John_Benware .
Well, according to the logs you do have installed HALion 7 (next to HALion Sonic SE 3.5 and HALion Sonic 7).
So for whatever reason, you do have HALion7 installed but no license for it. At the same time, in the Dorico preferences the option is set, that Dorico shall always use the best available HALion derivate. The best is HALion7 so that is what Dorico tries to load then, but later fails due to a missing license.
In order to fix this you have two choices: First, uninstall HALion 7 (and keep HALion Sonic7), or second, set Dorico in the Preferences dialog to always use HALion Sonic like shown in following pic:

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Oh! Awesome. Thank you Ulf.
Let me see what I can do.

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Okay, I sent the unwanted applications and their content to the trash. The license window is still popping up.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (856.8 KB)

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You very likely still have the HALion 7 VST3 plug-in installed on your system in /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3.

I suggest you do as Ulf shows in his previous reply, and make some changes on the Play page of Preferences such that Dorico uses your preferred HALion plug-in, and choose HALion Sonic as the preferred version.

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Thank you Daniel. This seems to have helped.