If you’re using Halion 5 stand alone, or with a DAW system other than Cubase…
First read the post above…the concepts are similar for the Factory content, in that VST3 presets and VSTsound files need to be rescanned so Halion knows about them, and can give you access to samples and things that might be archived in them.
- Launch Halion 5 in stand alone mode.
- Locate the built in Media Browser. (There are several ways to get to this. If you don’t see it as a ‘tabbed’ option, you can pull it up as a stand alone window in the editors list).
Right click the drives/folders that host your VSTsound and VSTpreset files and rescan them.
Clicking on the root drives should be enough to scan for factory content (Usually found in C:\ProgramData\Steinberg)
If that doesn’t bring it all in, and you want to try forcing a rescan of individual directories in C:\ProgramData (which might not show up in the Halion Browser since it’s hidden)…then you’ll need to temporarlily unhide the directory.
This will show you how to see the hidden directory in Windows Explorer ( http://windows7themes.net/en-us/how-to-show-hidden-files-in-windows/ ) From there, you can right click the “C:\ProgramData”, choose ‘properties’ and untick the ‘hidden’ box.
At that point, H5 should be able to show you the directory in its Browser, where you can force rescans of the VST3 Presets (and any other directories that might have content you want) scanned.
Again, if you’ve made VSTPresets of your own with Halion and did not make a VSTsound file archive (including the samples), then Halion might ask you at some point to relocate user samples if they’ve been moved to a new drive or location.
Hopefully this will pull everything in for you.
Once done, you can go back and rehide that directory if you like.