Title says it all, really

http://www.steinberg.net/en/ps/products/upcoming/halion/index.php

Lots of new features, but will they work? I'm quite disappointed in my HALion.

Which bits pissed you off?

I find it hard to get HALion to play without Clicks and Pops at all, there's usually something like that. It's a CPU hog and the Soundfont import wasn't great. I'm not too fussed about filters and stuff like that and I haven't had the big crashes some others have had, I just bought Sampletank+SS and HALion never got touched again.

Kevvvvv,

HAlion is looking great, I'm so glad someone decided to do a skin for Kontakt.

Bruce

looking at those screenshots ill be interested to compare halion2 and Vsampler3 - there looks to be more than a passing resemblance to me

slainte rob

I really like the new look. Very nice. All those new features with a free upgrade? Sounds like a good deal to me.

A sampler with built-in Waldorf filters sounds like a dream come true to me. It'd be nice if they were the filters from the Microwave XT & not the D-Pole, but even D-Pole is a huge step up from what's currently available in any of the soft-samplers (& I doubt Akai will change this reality, the filters weren't even a strong point of their hardware samplers).

Wonder how it fairs against Kontakt... well, it'll certainly beat the Kontakt's less than usable Direct Disk streaming and inability to even just identify Akai discs on multiple CD drives

If it does a better job importing Akai, has better filters, and is stable I wil be very pleased

I HATED the old filters, but I love Waldorf fitlers, so I am excited

Love the look, especially the import page and I sincerely hope it all works because I am using HALion less and less as I find much easier ways to produce the sounds I bought HALion for.

Is everybody sure this will be free as the wesite says "Update Information for registered HALion 1.0x users will soon be available."

Is the "FREE" statement somewhere else?

It would be a major tunraround in Steiney's policies of the past and hopefully a new dawn following recent "non-upgrade" decisions on products like Virtual Guitarist EE and HALion Strings Edition. Maybe us "whingers" made a difference after all??

It is almost free. You have to pay for shipping and handling, no download this time.

Here is the link

http://forum.cubase.net/forum/Forum4/HTML/008889.html

scroll about have way down the papge until you see the Angus B, the moderator's statement...

man, I hope this thing is good..


david

That's bloody brilliant news, long live the new upgrade policy!!!

A bit of a debate going on regarding the update policy over on cubase.net

[quote="Smudge"]That's bloody brilliant news, long live the new upgrade policy!!![/quote]

Brilliant as long as you have WinXP/2000. If you're still using Win98SE, too bad, they won't support it.

This seems to be a strong trend in Steinberg's upgrade scheme. The update for the LM4-MKII required Cubase 5, which "encouraged" those sticking with Cubase 3.7 to upgrade. Then Cubase SX with WinXP, now Halion. I can understand their desire to minimize development on differents OSs, but WinXP has not been out that long.

brickoflife wrote:

Smudge wrote: That's bloody brilliant news, long live the new upgrade policy!!! Brilliant as long as you have WinXP/2000. If you're still using Win98SE, too bad, they won't support it. This seems to be a strong trend in Steinberg's upgrade scheme. The update for the LM4-MKII required Cubase 5, which "encouraged" those sticking with Cubase 3.7 to upgrade. Then Cubase SX with WinXP, now Halion. I can understand their desire to minimize development on differents OSs, but WinXP has not been out that long.

I'm new t the PC world, how long has XP been out?

[quote]I'm new t the PC world, how long has XP been out? [/quote]

XP was released in October 2001. Less than a year later, Cubase SX was released which requires Win XP.

XP is great!

I think that the move to XP is one of the smartest things the Steinbergers did lately. XP is soooo stable. When working with Win98SE it wasn't too much fun with all the problems I had. All these memory problems, blue screens, etc. It wasn't really bad but now I know what stable really means. It means to crash NOT.
AFAICS this is for the majority of people I read and hear about. Everybody wants a stable DAW so the step to pay under €100 for a lot of basic stability is the way to go I think. Works good for me.

The thing about XP is that some older cards don't have drivers for it, that's the only good reason I know of not to switch. This is the case with two of my more important cards & so I myself was hesitant to make the change, but I don't think I could go back to 98 after working in XP for the last 9 months (those 2 cards now reside in a separate 98 system that acts like a dedicated effects processor now).

The requirements for SX are either windows 2000 (NT 5.0) or XP (NT 5.1). Win2k has been out since 1999... and it was the first version of windows since win95 that didnt crash constantly for no reason.. so it makes sense that enough people wouldve been using that at least.