I found a way to get around the window issues when using the VST3 version of HALion 5 in Studio One:
- Close the original plugin window (that includes tabs for all the active synth plugins in your Studio One project)
- Open HALion 5 and resize its window to a useful size
- Pin the HALion 5 plugin window so it stays open all the time (and isn’t swapped out for the currently select synth plugin)
- Open another plugin window and don’t pin it. This window will then automatically display the plugin on the currently selected track (except for HALion 5 which is in its own separate plugin window).
This seems to work okay. However, it’s still odd that the VST2 version of HALion 5 isn’t available within Studio One. Any ideas for why Studio One doesn’t recognize the VST2 versions of any of the Steinberg plugins?