I shouldn’t go buy stuff on Black Friday sales. But I did. I bought Steinberg Absolute 6, the instrument collection including Halion 7, Groove Agent 5, etc.
After three days, it had:
- Broken my cubase 11 media bay
- Broken my cubase 12 media bay
- Broken my halion 6 install
- Made 90% of my existing cubase projects fail to open
- Showed me 0 loadable presets in halion 7, after three tries reinstalling it.
- Screwed up my ability to start cubase without errors.
So I just rage quit Cubase and all steinberg products. Deleted them all. I have 400 gigabytes more space on my hard drive, and a huge hate for Steinberg.
Whatever they did to me, if I can convince anybody else NOT TO UPGRADE TO HALION 7, just don’t.
I just bought absolute 6 yesterday and installed it. Didn’t launch Cubase (11 pro on windows) until today. No problems here as far as I can tell, but I had Halion SE (the free version). Only oddity I noticed was Groove Agent took a while to initially populate its browser.