I have an old license on an elicenser for Halion Sonic 3 ( I dont think it was eligible to transfer to the new system or I would have done it. (Right? )
Currently I run Nuendo 14 and need to use Halion as an instrument. I have only have access to Halion Sonic 7 which comes free, with a small sound set.
If I download my Halion 3 library can I use it inside Halion Sonic 7 ( with the elicenser plugged in )?
I’m on a Mac the option of running Halion 3 with it’s fill library is now gone ( I think ) . It worked for a period of time but required everything to run via Rosetta.
Or do I have to upgrade Halion Sonic 3 to Halion Sonic 7 to access the same larger library?
So confusing!
Just dont want to do the 25GB Halion Sonic 3 library download to find it won’t work, and end up with useless vst files all over the place.
Basically, our instruments are backwards compatible. So all instruments from HALion Sonic 3 can be used in HALion Sonic 7 as well. The problem here is the license, which needs to be updated. Since we shut down the eLicenser-server quite a while ago, you won’t be able to do it on your own. I recommend getting in contact with our support department. Maybe they can offer some kind of individual solution. Please have a look here:
Based on your info I went ahead and downloaded and installed the Halion Sonic 3 content with the elicenser download option selected. I connected the elicenser with the Halon Sonic 3 license and launched Halion Sonic 7 . It worked! Yay! Obviously I need the dongle attached but that’s OK.
The odd thing was that the previously installed Halion 7 content which ships with Nuendo 14 and the odd free instrument in “My Products” vanished from Halion Sonic 7. The files were on the content drive, but no way for Halion Sonic 7 to ‘rescan’ it? That I could see anyway.
So I had to download and reinstall all that, which I’m pleased to say worked and isn’t a lot anyway.
Hope this clarifies the situation for others. Halion content gets confusing, for me anyway!
’Im glad to hear that my suggestions were able to help you a bit.
Regarding the remaining content issue, it’s difficult for me to say much at this point, as important information is missing. Which specific “HALion content that belongs to Nuendo 14” are you referring to exactly? Nuendo comes with the HALion Sonic Selection, which includes various instruments. Please let me know exactly:
Which instruments are missing or have disappeared?
What is shown under “My Products” in the Steinberg Download Assistant?
Are the missing instruments registered in the Steinberg Library Manager?
Firstly, I have sorted this all out by redownloading a reinstalling the missing Halion Sonic 7 components.
But in answer to your questions , after I used the Download Manager to install the Halion Sonic 3 content and opened Halion 7 Standalone ( to check what content was available ) , all previously available content ( included with Nuendo 14 … so some “Sonic Solutions instruments”, “Colors Free”, “Iconic Sketch” … and all the other complimentary Halion 7 instruments ) became unavailable in Halion Sonic 7. That is, they didnt show up in the Halion Sonic 7 Content browser. Only the Halion Sonic 3 content was there. The new Halion 7 content remained in “My Products” and they showed as “Activated” in the Activation manger. The content files were on my content HD too. Halion just lost track of them!
Perhaps the installer for Halion Sonic 3 content scrubbed them because there’s no way it would know about content from the ‘future’?? Or perhaps because the Halion Sonic 3 content is elicenser-based, the licensing process ‘cleared’ the newer SB Licensing because it doesn’t know that exists either!
Halion Sonic 3 content isn’t listed because it is still eLicenser based .
Once I reinstalled the Halion Sonic 7 content all was well for Halion, even when I ran it in Nuendo. BUT as an added bonus ( lol ) when I used Kontakt 8 ( in Nuendo ) it too had lost connections to it’s content files and I had to relink them ( not too hard in Kontakt ).
Pretty sure you will assume I must have changed something on the content drive or done something funky ( I would in you shoes ) , but I’m an very old hand at this, and the linking issues assuredly began immediately after installing Halion Sonic 3 Content!
No worries though. It’s an old product, and if my need for ‘sounds’ continues I’ll update to the full Halion Sonic 7 product.
