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I wish they had an option to deregister and backup Libraries without ‘removing’ the files to the trash can…but oh well.

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This can be done with the Library Manager that comes with the free Sonic 3 SE Player.įrom then on, when you want to reregister these libraries, just double click them and reregister (you can register it from the alternate location, or have it moved back into the directory where registered HALion vstsound files are typically kept). It’s possible to move (to a new location), then make a backup copy to a third location, and then remove (to unregister it from HALion) newer content like Trip and Flux that Dorico can’t unlock when you want to leave your USB key out of the picture. From there, simply avoid using Flux/Trip/Hybrid content if it happens to show up in your HSSE instance.

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If so, I’d recommend just doing that when you want to run Dorico from the software eLisencer, and your USB key with Cubase isn’t present. This only scratches the surface…but here’s a screen shot of H6 all spread out showing various aspects of the same Flux preset I showed you in HSSE a few paragraphs back.Ĭan you just click ‘ignore’ (or something similar) and continue working? Meanwhile in H6, you get the tools to go much deeper into creating sounds, and the simple Macro Interfaces like we see above are totally optional.

There are already dozens of them produced directly by Stienberg, and now all H6 users can design and make them as well. Here are a couple of screens worth of HS3, HSSE3, and H6 instances showing examples of some of the Editor UI “Macro Screens” that can be built with HALion Sonic Users in mind. Most sounds designed for Sonic come with some sort of basic UI macro, and H6 owners can actually design their own ‘Flux-Like’ Custom UI macros if desired (important if one wants to make a library intended to go with the free HSSE player).

Sonic users need the ‘Flux macro UI’ foundation in order to work with/tweak the sounds to a fuller and more feature-rich extent (though Sonic can still use presets involving wave table synthesis without the Flux UI…just not as tweakable, and the bulk of them would need to be built in H6 and later tagged to be playable in Sonic). HALion 6 can play Flux content too, but it can also make and play wavetable sounds using native H6 tools and methods, without the Flux UI macro. I also happen to have keys for HALion 6, and CuBase 9.5 on this particular system, so it works just fine no matter what Host I run HSSE from (Dorico, Sibelius, Finale, Stand Alone mode, whatever).įlux provides a UI macro that users of Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 SE (HSSE3) can use to fashion custom sounds and save them. In contrast, Dorico comes with HALion Symphonic Orchestra (HSO), which needs either Dorico, or a retail HSO key to work.Īs you can see, I am able to load and play Flux based presets in SE, and I can tweak then save/name my own variations of these sounds. Cubase also has an older “Hybrid SE Expansion” library which goes way back to something like version 7 that I do not believe comes with Dorico. I don’t believe these content packs come with Dorico though.Īt some point I believe Cubase also got Trip for HSSE. Flux is a HALion Sound Library focused around “Wave Table Synthesis” that comes with Cubase 9.5, and possibly some other Steinberg Hosts (Artist, Nuendo) too.

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