Reposting this from the Instruments forum because it’s pretty quiet over there.
I bought Absolute 4 when it launched. I followed the install process faithfully but noticed that when I opened Halion (any version) I couldn’t see Dark Planet or Treibwerk, on searching the PC I found the ‘ADD’ files happily sitting in my VST sounds folder with everything else. I thought I’d just messed up the install so I did the entire install again, the same result. I also noticed that I didn’t have Hypnotic Dance.
When I go to the download manager and try to install them separately they open up a large text file of presets and prompt me to save an appended version of the same file I already have in my VST Sounds folder, I’ve tried this in case but it doesn’t alter anything. Shortly after this I upgraded to Cubase 10.5 Pro so wiped everything and started from scratch, same result, and shortly after that I bought a new PC so once again I installed everything from scratch, same result.
I have watched countless videos with people showing the instruments and all the presets available in Halion, mine never are. I’ve seen many posts about people losing the presets and the fix for that but that isn’t my issue. I’ve tried copying the ADD files for these instruments into every imaginable folder that has any connection to my Steinberg installs, nothing happens.
Here’s where it gets interesting: Both Dark Planet and Treibwerk are sitting in my Library Manager, from here I can move them or register them, the LM always seems happy and confirms the files have been registered. I get no complaints about anything missing when I start Cubase unless I delete the DP or TW file from VST Sounds then I have to point it to where they are and it re-registers them but they still never appear in my Halion instruments, ever. They never have.
This doesn’t apply to Hypnotic Dance however, that doesn’t even appear in the LM, it is completely awol.
I have seen loads of vids with the Media bay count after installing Absolute 4 and mine is well short in numbers. I’ve re-scanned everything and everywhere, searched all over, nothing seems amiss, the files are right there where they should be, they are sitting right next to Granular guitars, Prime Cuts and Zero Gravity which all show up in Halion or Padshop.
What. The. Hell. Am. I. Doing. Wrong!
This is driving me insane. The entire internet is a blank on this, I’ve scoured every obscure corner of it.
Please, if somebody has these showing up and working in Halion could you check they aren’t stuck away in some hard to find place or copied to another folder.
They just won’t work.
Thank you.
