Does one exist? The GM vstsound files are there but I get a red circle for all the sounds. Any way of getting them to work? I have previous Halion versions, Dorico (light) , Iconica sketch…lots of sound files except for GM. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Hi @yanidim !
The GM sounds are licensed with Dorico. Are you sure the license is active on your system?
Thanks for replying…
I have Halion 4/5/6/7, Groove agent 4 /5 , and many vst soundsets…you’d think they’d give you a lousy GM set (to open old midi files). Anyhow, I re-downloaded the 30gb content, it seems to work now…they seem to update the content format, probably just a couple of bytes, another push to get their latest products. Then they take away your previous versions…Less is more I guess…
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Hey Bro,
I’m also having trouble with the GM set. I had it all working fine in an earlier version of Cubase but with 14 Pro and Halion 7 I’ve lost it all and can’t for the life of me work out how to get my GM Soundset back.
I have Cubase 14Pro, Groove Agent 5 (full version) and all my old vsstsounds from the old Halion Sonic SE3 and earlier.
I saw someone mention something about a Dorico free content set which has the GM set. I downloaded it and was thinking as it’s a Steinberg free ‘vstsound’ file it would just be able to load into Halion but I guess as I don’t have Dorico loaded it won’t work. Is there a free Dorco ‘lite’ version?
How did you get yours to work?
I too was able to get the GM set when I opened Halion7 & Sonic 7 in Cubase 13, I think the latest version of H7 (7.1.2 vs 7.1.1) screwed things up. I had also copied my vst files from my other computer which doesn’t have C14. Anyhow I re-downlowded all the content (29.55Gb!), it was the Halion Sonic 7 Content Collection, and I think that’s what fixed it. Out of the 30gb download, I only copied 2 files into my vstsound folder. They are:
FCP_SMT_075_HS_GM_01 and FCP_SMT_078_HSSE_GM_Presets_01
In any case the midi import works in HS7 standalone, but when I import into Halion 7 standalone, it gives the program numbers but I manually have to drag the GM sounds in the right instrument slots.
Hope this helps!
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Hey Bro, thanks so much for getting back to me. Which vstsound folder did you put it in? There are a few vstsound folders on my computer.
BTW my name is Michael and I’m in Sydney Australia.
G’Day
When you open Steinberg Library Manager at the top bar it shows your default vstsound folder, that’s where they should be. You canalso see the location of each sound set, and you can also use “move”. Or you can just copy and paste the "loose’ ones to the main folder.
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Yes, the Library Manager is just there to make copying stuff around easier. All the VSTSound files can be moved by hand. But you need to maintain aliases/shortcuts to the Steinberg/Content subfolders, else the Media Bay browsers will not find it. Library Manager does that for you automatically.
And apologies for the confusing information about the GM content licensing.
I just tried to find a good link that I can post here, but not all product pages contain the full information. I will forward that to our web team.
At least the Dorico comparison page lists the GM under playback:
And to clear up another, sometimes, confusing, fact.
If we as Steinberg say it is free, we mean free as in you do not need to fork over any money.
But: You still need a license.
This means creating an account, leaving your email address and activating the license on your computer.
So to get free GM content, you need to activate a Dorico SE license, for example.