I install HALion SOnic 7 via the Steinberg Download Assistant and the only thing that appears in the VST3 Folder is “Metronome.vst3”, I can open HALion Sonic 7 but it’s a standalone version only, I get no VST file for HALion Sonic 7 itself, so I am unable to open it within my DAW. How to fix this?
HALion Sonic 7 is just a player, it doesn’t contain any VSTs by default.
Do you own a Cubase license or some other product from Steinberg? They also have the HALion Sonic 7 Selection licensed, which is a collection of instruments that can be loaded in HALion Sonic 7.
You can also load all kind of instruments that are supplied as VSTs.
I own a few instruments which I load via the Halion player, but I am trying to open the Halion Sonic 7 player within my DAW, previously I was using Halion Sonic SE 3 within ableton, and then opening my steinberg instruments within that player inside my DAW, but the problem is the upgrade for one of the instruments I want to use is only compatible with Sonic 7/Halion 7, so I am not sure how to open this instrument within my DAW.
Did you activate HALion Sonic 7 in the Activation Manager?
Yes, again the problem is I don’t have a vst for the HALion sonic 7 player so am unable to open it within my DAW. Whereas with the HALion Sonic SE 3 player I have a VST for it so I can open it within my daw. And I can’t update my instrument to the newest version because the newest version only runs on HALion Sonic 7/HALion 7
It is completely confusing what you write here.
So can you start the HALion Sonic 7 player as a standalone tool, even without any VST?
The player will start even when there is no VST available and that should be the same in Ableton.
Now you say you do have a VST than be used by HALion, in this case HALion Sonic SE 3. What VST is that, please be a bit more specific.
Why can’t you update? If you want to run it in HALion Sonic 7 and the newest version is able to do that, it is exactly what you are asking for.
I can start the Sonic 7 player as a standalone tool, even without a VST, I can load my VST instruments within the standalone player and they function as normal. The problem is ableton does not detect the Sonic 7 Player because I do not have a VST/VST3 version of the player, just a .exe version(Which is the standalone)
And when I say I do have a VST of Sonic SE 3, it means I have a VST file of the player itself.
I can’t update my instrument to the newest version because the newest version only runs on HALion Sonic 7/HALion 7, and I am unable to get Sonic 7 to open within my DAW.
I figured it out, I opened Ableton Preferences > Plug-Ins > and set the option “Use VST3 Plug-In System Folders” to “ON” and it is now detecting The HALion Sonic 7 player within ableton and I am able to open it and use it. And for the record, the HALion Sonic.vst3 file is found in the following location "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Steinberg\HALion Sonic.vst3\Contents\x86_64-win"