To clear up some space on my hard drive, I trashed the contents of my (Mac) Downloads folder. Turned out that the sounds libraries for Halion, Groove Agent, etc., had all been installed to the Downloads folder, so most of the Steinberg VSTs won’t work anymore, and I get error messages when I open Cubase. I re-downloaded everything that I had lost, but the instruments still can’t find their sound files. Where do the sound files belong, and how come the installer doesn’t put them there in the first place? I’ve tried moving the files to various places on the hard drive, but the instruments still can’t find them and I’m not getting a “locate” option when the instrument sends me an error message. Should I just use only third-party instruments from now on?
Hi,
You can set (and show) the path in Stienberg Library Manager.
Thanks, I’ll get on that….
Doesn’t work. The Library Manager says that none of the files can be moved. It also indicates they were installed last year—which is true, but those are the files that got deleted, so of course they can’t be moved. I think I’m dealing with a security or licensing conflict.
I’m pretty sure this works on a Mac too.
In the OS (Finder?) go to wherever you put the libraries. Double-click on any vstsound file. This will launch the Library Manager and register every vstsound file it finds in that location plus any sub-folders.
Outstanding! Can’t thank you enough! It worked right away for some of the libraries; had to fiddle around with a few others (esp. Halion, which has a lot of content); most are now working normally (maybe all of them are) plus, I know what to do now if I do get another “missing files” message.