I’m trying to upgrade to Dorico 6. I presume there is a license needed, but I hope just an upgrade, not the full monte. How do I do this?
I’m finding all the faffing around with the Activation and Download agents very trying… and I don’t see anything on the Steinberg site to help answer that question: just a link to purchase at full price. Worse, the Download agent let me download 6, but without an activation code, I’m stuck; it appears to have overwritten Dorico 5.
You can find the upgrade price by going to dorico.com. Click on the red Buy Dorico button, then Buy Dorico Pro 6, and then click on the Update & Upgrades tab. Once you have purchased the upgrade, you’ll get an email with your activation code.
Dorico 6 does not overwrite Dorico 5 – they install into separate folders.
Weird. I mean, that’s what usually happens, but I sure don’t see Dorico 5 anywhere anymore. (??)
Thanks. I’ll proceed as you instruct!
“Overwrite” mystery solved. I’m on Mac OS, and they aren’t in separate folders, but the list resorted itself without me noticing. I’ve got 6 now, and it’s activated, but I’m struggling to get all the new sound files downloaded for some reason. I expect I’ll get that sorted somehow.
Thanks again for your help!
Using the Steinberg Download Assistant should make this process easy, especially as you can do it all in (this) one place.
As user k_b already said, use the Steinberg Download Assistant for installing the sound contents. But you don’t need to install everything again, just the sound packages that are new in Dorico 6 (compared to Dorico 5). And I think that is only the Etudes Piano library.
Thanks! Per the DM, there were several packages to install, including the Etude. All seem to be OK except for Halion Sonic 7.1.51. I used both the DM and the website to install it (multiple times) and it opens fine as a freestanding program. But I can’t get Dorico to recognize it, so I suspect it’s installed in the wrong place, or something like that.
Here’s the diagnostics–if I may presume to offer that proactively.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.8 MB)
Hi @kdmsooboy ,
thanks for the diagnostics. There seems to be an issue not only with HALion Sonic, but also 3 other plugs (WaveShell, Sonnox & Ozone), because all of them end up in the vst3blocklist.xml. What I don’t see from the data, why this is happening.
First thing to try is, reset the scanner cache and by that enforce a rescan of the plug-ins.
So start Dorico and go to the Dorico Preferences, choose the VST Plug-ins tab and scroll all the way down, click the Reset Audio Engine Data button and restart Dorico. If still trouble, please post a new diagnostic report.
Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion. I will be able to try this out later today, and will let you know what happens.
Had a chance to run it quickly. Still no luck. Did the reset even work? There was no visual indication, nor did the ‘apply’ button become active.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.7 MB)
Yes, it did the reset and most interestingly, now it even got worse, now also Groove Agent does end up on the blocklist.
When I interpret it correctly then the ouput means that you have installed the 32 bit version of HALion Sonic and GrooveAgent, but it needs to be the 64 bit version.
Can you please check this?
Thanks again. Apparently, the plain answer to your question is, no I can’t check this, presumably because I lack some requisite knowledge. (Sorry, I did try some things, such as scanning the version history per Steinberg!)
But perhaps you can tell from the ‘info’ pop-ups I screen-grabbed. Or alternatively, maybe you can tell me the crucial thing(s) to check.
Actually, you are showing the info for the standalone players. Those are apps that can load the respective plug-in and by that make it playable like a normal instrument.
But you need to have a look for the plug-ins under
Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3/Steinberg
That Library folder is usually hidden, but in Finder choose from the menu Go and then from the pop-up menu Go to…. Into the little box that appears type
/Library
and hit the enter/return key. Finder then jumps to that folder and you can continue navigating to the mentioned Steinberg folder. Get there the file info for HALion Sonic and Groove Agent.
Thanks
Ulf,
Finally, I was able to return to this issue!
I was able to find the files where you specified, and am attaching the screen grabs.
I also tried Dorico again; this time it only said that Groove Agent was missing. Rechecking the VST tab in the Play mode, it now shows Sonic as OK, but not (unsurprisingly) Groove Agent. I think I’ll try downloading GA again from the Download Manager.
Kevin
Not sure where we are; after several uninstalls, reopens, and reinstalls, I have files playing, even though the last time I opened Dorico it still said that Groove Agent was missing (and essential). I could live with this functionality, I think, assuming things don’t change again next time I try to do some work!
Hi Kevin,
yes, that sounds reasonable to reinstall Groove Agent from the Download Assistant.
But before doing so I would first delete the existing Groove Agent.vst3.
And then let’s see what happens…keep me posted.
Hi, Ulf–
Well, nothing particularly good has happened. I’ve done multiple iterations of uninstalls and reinstalls, to no avail. Even though I can see the Groove Agent file being written, apparently in the correct place, Dorico doesn’t recognize it. One thing I noticed: a couple of times the Assistant has timed out, giving a prompt to use the installer package that did download before the time-out. When that happens, the GA instrument is shown as not selected (see screen grab).
I’m pretty much out of ideas right now; the only things I can think of are to uninstall/delete Dorico 5, which I haven’t yet done, and/or reinstall Dorico 6.
Sorry for me interfering.
These screenshots you show: I have never come across them when using the usual Dorico install or update routine.
Hi @kdmsooboy ,
please go back to the point earlier in this conversation where you navigated to the plug-ins folder and showed the screenshots when you did Get Info on the HALion Sonic and Groove Agent plug-in. Do that again please and this time unfold the dialog window so that it also shows the Sharing & Permissions section (see my screenshot as well). Are the settings identical between HALion Sonic and Groove Agent SE? Does everyone have at least read access to also Groove Agent.vst3?
And a little bit more information: Dorico will also work without Groove Agent SE, but then you have to set up drums and percussion players yourself. HALion Sonic has also some drum kits whereas Groove Agent has a bigger variety of sounds. So the message you get during Dorico start-up sounds more dramatic than it actually is. You can also ignore it and tick the “Don’t show this again” option. It’s up to you.
Hi @k_b , that screen which Kevin showed you get when downloading the Groove Agent installer directly from our website, in that case you can additionally install other variants of Groove Agent, for example if you want to run the plug-in also in Logic or other hosts.
