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Installation: background information
Licence keys and dongles
If you have purchased a full licensed copy of Hauptwerk you will have received a small USB device called a 'dongle' with it. The dongle is your licence for Hauptwerk and must be attached to a spare USB port on your computer at all times when you are running Hauptwerk.
Hauptwerk's installer automatically installs or upgrades the necessary hardware device driver for the dongle, and Hauptwerk functions either as a licensed application, or in evaluation mode, depending on whether the dongle is attached to the computer.
If you have been evaluating this version of Hauptwerk and then decide to buy a copy, all that is necessary is to connect the dongle to the computer to turn your evaluation installation into a licensed copy. There is no need to re-run Hauptwerk's installer. However, you must never attach or detach the dongle whilst Hauptwerk is actually running.
Once a licence key (USB dongle) has been installed, the periodic triangle chime that is audible in the evaluation version will no longer be present when a sample set is loaded.
If you have a licence for the smaller Basic Edition (previously named Studio Edition) and you want to evaluate features in the full Advanced Edition (previously known as the Concert Edition), simply disconnect your dongle temporarily. When you launch Hauptwerk again it will run as an evaluation version, allowing you to try out the functionality of the Advanced Edition. Reconnecting your dongle your will return you to your licensed Basic Edition. No settings will be lost in the process.
Important: Do not lose the dongle, since we cannot normally replace it unless you buy a new licence. Please see the licensing section for more information about the dongle and licensing.
Understanding the configurations
It is only possible to have one copy of Hauptwerk installed on a given computer (unless you have multiple operating system disk partitions). If the installer detects that Hauptwerk is already installed, it will only allow that copy to be upgraded or re-installed.
However, several independent Hauptwerk configurations will automatically be installed, each allowing its own entirely separate set of configuration settings within Hauptwerk, and launched via different short-cuts/aliases. Any settings you change within Hauptwerk in one configuration will not affect the other two.
Sample sets, licences and other installable components, combination files and files recorded from Hauptwerk's built-in output recording system are automatically shared between all three. The configurations are:
- A stand-alone configuration. This is the main default Hauptwerk configuration. Once installed, it is launched by double-clicking on Hauptwerk (stand-alone) icon on your desktop (or in the Start menu on Windows systems). It is intended and configured by default to be appropriate for using Hauptwerk as a stand-alone program (not with a MIDI sequencer), which you play in real-time from MIDI keyboards or an organ console.
- A MIDI sequencing configuration. This configuration is identical to, but entirely independent from the stand-alone configuration. Once installed, it is launched by double-clicking on the Hauptwerk (MIDI sequencing) icon on your desktop (or in the Start menu on Windows systems). It is intended and configured by default to be appropriate for using Hauptwerk with a non-VSTi compatible MIDI sequencer, together with a 'virtual MIDI cable' to route MIDI output from the sequencer to Hauptwerk, such as the native IAC Driver on the Apple Mac or the third-party freeware MIDI Yoke or LoopBe software on Windows (see the links page on the Crumhorn Labs website).
- A VSTi plug-in configuration. This configuration, also entirely independent from the other two, is configured only for use as a VSTi plug-in from within a third-party VST-compatible host program, such as Steinberg V-STack, Steinberg Cubase or Cakewalk Sonar. It is launched by selecting Hauptwerk from the list of available VSTi plug-in instruments within your VST host program, if you have one.
On the Apple Mac platform, currently only the first two configurations are available, since there is not yet a plug-in version of Hauptwerk for the Apple Mac. However, we plan to add one soon.
You can copy settings between the configurations if you wish using Hauptwerk's native backup/restore functionality, covered later in this guide. The backup/restore functionality also allows you to copy your settings, organ combinations and other 'user' data from one computer (or operating system disk partition) to another.
Planning installation locations
During installation, it is possible to choose to install different groups of Hauptwerk's files into different folders or on different disk drives. The files are grouped according to their size and backup requirements.
There are two 'installation sets' from which you will be able to choose during installation: Simple and Custom.
The Simple set installs all files into default folders on your computer's main hard disk, and is the most appropriate choice for most users, especially if you only have one hard disk (or a single RAID array) installed in the computer.
On the Apple Mac, the Simple option installs the Hauptwerk software itself into /Applications/Hauptwerk and all data files are installed into /Hauptwerk. On Windows, the Simple option install the Hauptwerk software into Program Files\Crumhorn Labs Hauptwerk and all data files into \Hauptwerk.
It is the Custom option which allows the data file groups to be installed to separate locations, and you may wish to choose this option if you are an experienced computer user and have more than one hard drive or more than one RAID array, across which you wish to optimise disk access or space usage. If you decide that you wish to use the Custom installation set, you should plan how you wish to lay out the folders before running the installer. If you are building a new computer, you may wish to lay out the file systems or RAID arrays at this stage. Once Hauptwerk has been installed, the installation locations cannot be changed without un-installing Hauptwerk and then re-installing it.
The groups of files, whose installation folders can be adjusted are:
- User data files. Files containing your settings and data, such as configuration files, saved combinations and log files. Reliable disk storage should be used and it is recommended that the files be backed up regularly. Hauptwerk's native backup/restore functionality can be used to back them up. Recommended size for growth: 500 MB - 2 GB.
- Sample sets and components. Sample sets, sample data, temperament files, and other install-able components. Place this folder on a large hard disk or array. Storage need not be secure, since all data can be re-installed. Recommended size for growth: 5 - 100 GB.
- Internal working data files. Processing and analysis is performed the first time a sample set is loaded. The resulting data are stored in a 'sample set data cache' for the sample set within this folder so that it can load much more rapidly subsequently. Ideally these files should be placed on a large, fast disk or array for speed. A fast RAID array (RAID 1 or RAID 5 are recommended) is ideal. Recommended size for growth: 5 - 100 GB.
- Recorded output files. Files produced from Hauptwerk's built-in recording system. Recommended size for growth: 1 - 20 GB.
On Windows only, for both Simple and Custom installation sets, you will also need to select a folder into which the VSTi plug-in will be installed. If you have a VSTi host program, such as Steinberg V-STack, Steinberg Cubase or Cakewalk Sonar, the required folder will be the special VST plug-ins folder used by the host program (\Program Files\Steinberg\V-STack\Vstplugins, for example). If you do not have a VSTi host program, or will not be using Hauptwerk as a VSTi plug-in, simply leave the installation option at its default and Hauptwerk's installer will install the plug-in component to an appropriate default location.
[Note that the installer places all files for a given group within a sub-folder of the folder you select for the group, named accordingly for the group. For example, a sub-folder named HauptwerkUserData will be created for the user data files within the folder you select for the user data files group. The VSTi folder is an exception, in that the VST plug-in is created directly within the folder you select.]
Shared vs. multi-user environments
Because the configuration required to integrate Hauptwerk with a MIDI organ console may involve quite a large number of settings, whilst most of Hauptwerk's settings relate to the hardware with which it is being used, and also because the sample set data caches are dependent on the configuration and may be very large (for example, 5 - 50 GB), it is best to have all computer accounts sharing the same Hauptwerk settings in most cases, which is how Hauptwerk's installer configures the installation.
In special cases where you may have more complex multi-user configuration or security requirements, for example in a school or music college, please contact Crumhorn Labs to discuss your installation requirements.
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