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.
After upgrading to Halion 7 and removed the dongle all free libraries didn’t work anymore (like Lofi piano). This is because the dongle is still needed for these libraries. I logged in at the Steinberg website, went to the voucher section and there were vouchers for these free libraries. By redeeming these the free libraries started working again.
The only library I need a dongle for now is Neo soul keys which I bought almost 10 years ago. I had to delete this library. Lucky for me Amped elektra is kind of similar to Neo soul keys.