Hello Laurens/Gonzalo,
[Topic moved here.]
Unless you specifically un-install/delete your existing Hauptwerk v4 installation prior to upgrading (which is necessary for v5 on macOS:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17833&start=15#p134736 , but not on Windows), Hauptwerk's installer will automatically default its installation locations to those of your existing v4 installation. (The default installation locations for a new/clean v5 install are different, i.e. within the computer account's home folder, but, when upgrading an existing installation, locations will default to the existing installation locations).
If, when running the installer to upgrade, you select the 'Custom' option and manually change the installation locations from their current values, the installer will try to move the existing folders to your newly-chosen locations (as described in the '
Changing installation locations' section in the main Hauptwerk user guide -- page 28 in the v5.0.0 version). As mentioned there, sometimes that doesn't succeed:
We strongly recommend using Hauptwerk's native backup functionality ('File | Backup your Hauptwerk settings and personal data' ... and making sure you have the original installation media for all sample sets to hand, prior to re-running the installer to move folders, in case anything goes wrong during the moving process (for example, in case storage space runs out, or some sample set files or folders can't be moved because of insufficient permissions, or the computer ‘times out’ some part of the process, or the computer goes to sleep).
If moving the existing locations did fail (which presumably happened in both your cases originally), then you can always get your v4 settings back by restoring into v5 ('
File | Restore ...') the last backup that you made from v4. (Periodic automatic backups, unless you've disabled them, can be found in the
Hauptwerk/AutomaticBackups folder within your computer account's home folder.)
Earlier today, I also added a post that you might find useful in Iain's audio tutorial thread (
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17916 ):
mdyde wrote:Also, for the benefit of anybody reading this thread that might not already have found it, the full documentation for Hauptwerk v5's audio routing/mixer/reverb functionality is in the two '
Audio routing and impulse response reverb ...' chapters in the main Hauptwerk user guide (pages 166-201 in the current v5.0.0 version). Also, for those used to v4's routing functionality, the summary in the '
Changes in version 5.0.0 above version 4.2.1: Advanced Edition only: audio routing, multiple audio output perspectives, and associated voicing changes' section in the release notice (pages 5-8 in the v5.0.0 version) explains the changes and how the new routing functionality and terminology relates to those from v4:
https://www.hauptwerk.com/documentation/In the main Hauptwerk user guide's routing sections, '
Example 6: multi-channel audio with 24 (or more) speakers configured as stereo pairs in 3 groups of 4 pairs each, with different organ divisions routed to different groups, optionally plus a sub-woofer, optionally with an additional pair of ‘rear’ speakers for surround-sound, optionally with an additional pair of speakers as an ‘aux reverb mix’ with added reverb (which can be bypassed, or its wetness adjusted, on a per-organ basis)' (pages 196-201) gives an example of routing different divisions to different groups. (If you only want to use a single stereo pair of speakers for each division, then you would only want one mixer bus, i.e. speaker pair, in each of your groups/divisions).
Note also that if you simply want your existing v4 audio routing to be entirely unchanged from v4 (and you don't plan to take advantage of any of the new routing abilities that v5 offers), then when you first launch v5 just allow it to migrate your existing audio routing/settings, by making sure that that you
un-tick the '
Discard migrated Hauptwerk v4 audio settings and reset audio device settings' option on the General Configuration Wizard when it runs automatically upon first launch of v5. [If you have already launched v5 and reset the routing then note that you could potentially get (all of) your v4 settings back, including audio routing, by using '
File | Restore ...' in v5 to restore the last settings backup you made from 4, then re-launching v5, then un-ticking that '
Discard migrated Hauptwerk v4 audio settings and reset audio device settings' option when prompted.]
As Jiri mentioned, although you can certainly migrate your v4 audio settings if you want to, I think you'll find it worth investing some time learn the new v5 routing functionality, since it can do a lot more, and in most cases much more easily/quickly (once one has one's head around the concepts).
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.