Sorry for this stupid question but I am 99.9% sure I wrote (or at least largely contributed to) a thread discussing HALion 5 because I was (and still am) considering buying it. But I am totally damned if I can find it. It will have been within the last 9 x months. I have tried all he obvious searches but I canāt find it !! I would really like to read it again if possible and if anyone can kindly help locate it please !!
Also, I posted a couple of threads in VST section if anyone can help with these Cubase Valentine Sale questions ??
I have been off he scene for a bit because I broke my leg and fractured my ankle on Xmas Eve plus had other s*** going on etc. But I would like o try and get back into my music and learning Cubase again.
btw - If anyone ever fancies a chat on Skype then please buzz me on there. i am going stir crazy here living in a parallel universe !!
Go to your personel profile area (Click on your user Name above). Then click on overview - your threads. There you will have the list of all the threads you have posted something for.
Thanks Niles. It was in the Artist 6 thread cheers.
I do have some questions thought regarding this subject as HALion 4 is now 5. So I wanted to check please in case the previous advice kindly given (in Artist 6 thread) has been super-ceded .
I can not work out what would be the best way (and cheapest) to upgrade from what I currently have to HALion 5. I was wondering if there was a way to take advantage of the Valentines sale to upgrade ?? From what I understand you need to purchase a download ātrialā version of HALion Sonic 2 for Ā£81.00 (was Ā£162), and then upgrade from HALion Sonic 2 to HALion 5 (which I think is only available as a āboxedā version ?? But I can not work out if HALion 5 is actually on offer in the Valentines sale or not ?? And if it IS, then would I be better buying the FULL version of HALion 5 (I think is Ā£162.00 but am hoping is in the 1/2 price sale) ??
Halion 5 isnāt on offer in the Valantines sale.
So when you buy HS2 with a 50% discount for ā¬99,- (sorry I donāt see the Ā£ price) and the Halion 5 upgrade* from HS2 for ā¬99,- youāll end up paying ā¬199,- for Halion 5.
The regular price for the full Halion 5 version is ā¬349,-
So you can save some money if you where planning to buy Halion 5.
most likely a download version because HS2 already contains all the content. In any case Steinberg can always provide you a download link to all the content when needed.
You say that I can save some money if I was to purchase HALion 5. But HALion Sonic 2 has always been Ā£81.00p if (like me) you are going to upgrade to from HALion Sonic to HALion 5. I mean there is no price change in this process as far as I can see ?? I checked it lots of different ways but of course I could still be wrong here.
Sorry Paul, I missed you already own Halion Sonic (1), I now see it in you sig.
In that case I think you canāt save money indeed. Strangely enough the update from Halion Sonic to Halion Sonic 2 isnāt included in the Valentineās sale.
Thatās exactly what I thought. Your help was really appreciated !!
I downloaded the ātrialsā for HALion Sonic 2 and HALion 5 last night.
QUESTIONS :-
If you purchase the items in your shopping cart today, can you ACTIVATE them at a later date (ie just buy the Codes and then do all the installation etc at a later date) ?? Or does EVERYTHING have to be completed today ??
I have been offered this boxset from an eBay seller. I am not sure if it is HALion 5 including HALion Sonic 2, or just HALion 5 ?? Would this be a cheaper and better method than purchasing the software via the ātrialā versions on the Steinberg website ??
Sorry I forgot to add the link !! Pasted it in now !! Though its an EDUCATIONAL version and if I purchase it will Steinberg require some form of proof of employment from me ?? The eBay seller said that if they ask for proof and I am not able to provide it, then I may not be able to Activate the boxset. I have been a piano teacher on and off since leaving music college 15 x years ago, but at the moment I have a broken leg and ankle which has left me unemployed since December because I am still awaiting a couple of operations on it. Anyway, thatās what I needed confirming. Whether or not the boxset (as in the link) included EVERYTHNG required the make the jump ??
If I installed ātrialā versions of HALion 5 and Sonic 2, then will this cause issues if I purchased and installed the BOXSET version ?? Would the pre-installed ātrialā software just get overwritten or would I need to UNINSTALL it first and so start again from fresh ??
If you purchase items (disregarding HALion 5 and Sonic 2) in your shopping cart today, can you ACTIVATE them at a later date (ie just buy the Codes and then do all the installation etc at a later date) ?? Or does EVERYTHING have to be completed today ?? The 6 x products I would like to purchase are all Activation Codes :-
I currently have (what I think are called) ISO files on my desktop.
My question is please :-
What do I do with these ISOās please ?? Do they have to be burned to a DVD or CD and then copied back onto my laptop ?? And if so, do I need special software to be able to perform this task ?? I have never done anything like this before so any help would be greatly received !!
Your Windows 8.1 laptop should open the ISO files without having to burn them to a disk first .
It will appear as a " virtual disk " in file explorer .
I downloaded the free āElaborate Bytes VirtualCloneDriveā, itās a small bit of software that creates a virtual CD drive that can read your ISO files as if they were actual CDās. Works very easy (on my windows 7 64-bit) and saves you a CD .
Ok ta, i will try it again out shortly. i think the first time i tried it a message came up saying something like āAllow PC to choose an item in the APPās store to open this fileā ??
Hmm, I got it from a 3rd party website but that should be it. Iām not on the computer I downloaded it on right now so I canāt check, but judging by the image icons on that website I got Virtual Clone (nearly at the bottom of the list, the angry sheep instead of the funky one ) instead of Virtual Clone Drive.
I was only able to burn 1 x ISO file to DVD because the sizes are over 4.6GB (which is the size of the DVD discs !!). I did not realize they were so big. And I just spent Ā£10.00p on a pack of 25 !!
The only one which would fit was HALion Grand SE as it was less than 3GB. I assume I have done it correctly because it works ok (to my ears). Though the whole process (on my Windows 7) took over an hour which I was quite surprised about.