i just heard last night that halion is sort of multitibral, in other words, you can use more than one track with only one instance of halion, i do not know if this is true, i do not use halion but if it is the case i believe that i will be purchasing it, version 2.0 has 24 breakpoint waldorf filters and if it is indeed multitimbral as i was told, then i am not going to miss logic 6.0 and its multitibral capabilities, Someone please correct me if i am wrong.
thnx.

You heard right.
It is 16-part multitimbral. And like many of it's users I think it IS better than Kontakt in spite of what Kontakt-customers, most of whom have only glanced at HALion's potential, say.

gertwynens,

I'm very interested in hearing why many Halion users think Halion (2.0?) is better than Kontakt. I'm just about ready to buy my first software sampler (demos before )

Caleidoscopes wrote:

gertwynens, I'm very interested in hearing why many Halion users think Halion (2.0?) is better than Kontakt. I'm just about ready to buy my first software sampler (demos before )

The one thing that would set them apart in my book is that HALion can stream samples from the hard drive a la Gigastudio, while Kontakt is a RAM based sampler. They are both really good in thier feature sets, but to make a better choice, I would go to your local music store and give them a run through.

actually kontakt 1.02 streams everything from disk now too, akai, even giga samples go to NI website.
Kontakt has some really nice wave editing features that i think are better than halion, kontakt is also a much much much less of a memory hog
halion gobbles ram.

halion 2.0 will be very nice because it has 24 break point waldorf filters
but then again kontakt has a step sequencer that can be used to change volume, pitch, filter cutoff etc.

i own both and i really think kontakt has alot more features that haliion.
i think halion is prettier looking if that counts for anything lol

ah. I wasn't aware of that peice of info.