Out now: HALion 6 and HALion Sonic 3

fenderchris · February 13, 2017, 11:51pm

emasters:

fenderchris:

emasters:

Mac user here, so no W7 input. That said, very impressed with the H6 upgrade from H5. Sternberg clearly put in a lot of effort into this. Between the incorporated scripting and macro environment, the new instruments, ease of install, etc., great job. It’s certainly a large (size) upgrade, but the Download Assistant worked well and relatively fast. I manually moved the sound files to an external drive and replaced with alias files (which took some time). Really a more significant release than I expected. Clearly H6 is a capable competitor with the other sampling products. Will be interesting to see what content get’s released for H6, over time. Good job Sternberg team!

What do you mean by ‘replaced with alias files’?

If you take an installed HALion 6 .vstsound file and move it to another drive, then point to that newly located .vstsound file with an Alias file in the original location, the HALion 6 will use the Alias file as a pointer to the actual sound file. On a Mac, the sound files are stored in the Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Content/ folder – and in the case of HALion 6, (many) new sound files are written into the HALion and VST Content sub folders there. Just a way to free-up space on the system hard drive, given the large size of the HALion 6 sound files. I haven’t used the HALion Library Manager app yet, so it may in effect do the same thing (perhaps easier than the manual process).

Thanks for that explanation, but where do the ‘alias’ files come from? How are they created?