This page at Steinberg’s website claims that Halion Symphonic Orchestra won’t work on OSX Lion. It says “Plug-in not detected by host. No update planned but runs as VST Sound Instrument Set based on HALion Sonic on Lion.”
Not true.
I just finished installing Cubase Studio 5 on Lion, with HSO working just fine, both as a VST plugin and through ReWire.
As the script for copying the samples from the DVDs is made for PPC and needs Rosetta, it probably won’t run. But if you already have the samples loaded on a Mac, you can just copy the samples to their place from the other Mac after installing the plugin (latest from the Steinberg website – not the one that comes on the discs).
The path to look for is /Library/Application Support/Steinberg/ReWire/HALion Symphonic Orchestra. For the 16-bit edition, there should be approx. 11 GB of data, for the 24-bit version probably some 50% more.
This is not recent news, as it also worked on Lion Developer Preview and Cubase Studio 5.5.0, which was also not supposed to work on Lion…
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