The Steinberg Download Assistant installed this free instrument quick and effective.
The Sonic 7 Library was easy to spot but before I downloaded/installed it I supposed that I should get some kind of a question or information of where I wanted to store it because it was huge.
Since I couldn´t find any information either inside Cubase 15 PRO or at Steinberg´s webpage I pressed download and guessed that the question of where should pop up there. No way, it just started to download 30 GB of material on my system disk. I pressed paus and quit the installer, not because of lack of storage space but I prefer to store all sounds etc. on external disk drives.
To not give the user a clear question of where sounds etc. shall be stored is kind of clumsy and not very nice since the extra job to fix the right place afterwards is just waste of time and energy.
So my question is two:
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How to do it the right way?
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How come Steinberg by default decide a location to the system disk without automatic question of where the user wants to store the material?
Hi,
In the Steinberg Download Assistant, click on the Settings icon and set the download directory (on top).
Steinberg sets the default one. If you want to change it, you can do so.
Hi and thanks!
I am totally new to the interface and do not know how to do it. Maybe I press the wrong buttons in wrong order.
But if you possibly could be a little bit more detailed of what you mean by settings button, I guess you mean the symbol that looks like a cogwheel. But when I press this and address the process to my hard drive nothing happens at all. No question or execution of being in the right way and definitely no more information of what, when or if the process is ready to download to my disk drive.
So if you have time maybe a numbered guidance with what buttons you mean. When I hoover over the buttons no names comes up.
Hi,
Yes, I mean this button, where you can see the “Settings” text bellow.
You can set the path where the files be downloaded to. Then you can click manually on any software or library to download it.
HALion Sonic? Or HALion?
The free HALion library {HALion Sonic Selection} is only 3 gigs, the full library (for which you have to pay) is 30.
You may have a lot of instruments for which you have no licence.
Hi,
My question is how I can tell what sound files and instruments from the wrongly downloaded library can be deleted on my system disk without causing problems for the stuff that belongs to the sounds and instruments that follows Cubase 15 PRO by default.
I started with uninstall the free version of Halion Sonic 7 but probably the sound files that not belong to this free version that I downloaded would disappear during the uninstall.
Do you possibly have an idea of how to identify these wrongly downloaded files as a cluster before removing them?
Hi,
HALion Sonic 7 itself is not a library, it’s an application. I recommend that you use the Steinberg Library Manager to delete everything. Then go to the Steinberg Download Assistant, find the Cubase AI 15 (or the exact version and edition you own) “folder,” and download only the content from this “folder”. Then you are on the safe side.
Hi,
Got that! The problem was that I by mistake downloaded the large library for the licensed version of Halion, how now that was possible.
But the thing is that my system disk that contained 500 GB of free space before the download now only shows approximately 468 GB
Since Halion Sonic 7 is just a sampler with much smaller size the round about 32 GB can´t depend on the free player.
My question will become two here if you or someone can help me clearing this things out.
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Is Halion Sonic 7 totally free of sounds when I install it or are there instruments or samples following the installation by default?
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Now I downloaded the “free instruments” shown under the tag “details” found at the same page as where one can download the free Halion Sonic 7. That worked fast and fine.
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The question I put in before this answer would still be: If I downloaded the large library by fault when I thought that would be the normal way to do it. Where are these files stored by default on my system disk?
My understanding is: Yes - it’s just a player. The free library is a separate download.
Open up the Library Manager, click the tiny cog up in the right hand corner, and the default location should be displayed. (You can change this.)
You’ll also see all the libraries installed - click the Details button, as I have done with the first library (Amped Electra) and you’ll see where it’s stored.
