Upgraded to Elements 8 but VST instruments "missing"

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Hi

I’ve upgraded from Elements 7 to 8. I used Cubase’s uninstaller to remove 7 first, and then went through my hard drive to try and get rid of any associated files that were left over.

Installed Elements 8. When loading a Rack Instrument, only Prologue is available. Refreshing the Plug-in Manager doesn’t help.

When attempting to load a Track Instrument, the list under the Instrument category reads:

Groove Agent One
Groove Agent SE
Halion Sonic
Halion Sonic SE
Prologue

All are greyed out and unavailable for selection.

I have no other VSTIs installed on my computer.

So it seems that the instruments from Elements 7 are still installed somewhere and are conflicting with those in Elements 8 ?

If so, where will I find the files please, because a search for Groove Agent, and even Prologue - which is usable - shows 0 results (except for manuals)?

Up to date with version 8.0.35

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Try reinstalling using the full installer. You should be able to download it from your MySteinberg account.

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Hi there and thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve tried to install several times with the same result.

I must admit that there were some old plugins on board (including the original Halion - vst2.2!) but they’ve been removed now and yet still no improvement. Unistalling, cleaning the registry, rebooting, reinstalling, etc.

For the time being I’ve reverted back to Elements 7 installed off CD-ROM. Funny thing is it tells me that Halion SE, Groove Agent One, content and libraries are already installed, despite a full un-installation previously! Do you know where they’re supposed to be stored because, as I as mentioned, a Windows search was not finding them?

Perhaps Groove Agent SE will be there too ?