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felis · Post by **felis** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:42 pm

50% off Halion-6 or Sonic 3 for 5 days:

https://www.steinberg.net/en/promotion/ ... N-FR-ES-JP

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:12 pm

Interesting. I was thinking of getting this on sale. But now I have Falcon so I'm wondering what Halion 6 would give me for my £150.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:17 pm

ChamomileShark wrote:Interesting. I was thinking of getting this on sale. But now I have Falcon so I'm wondering what Halion 6 would give me for my £150.

A better VA synth engine than Falcon, a better wavetable engine, and also a slightly better Granular synth engine.

chili beans · Post by **chili beans** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:18 pm

Does Halion sonic 3 require a USB licence key?

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:39 pm

chili beans wrote:Does Halion sonic 3 require a USB licence key?

The System Requirements here don't mention it, so, it must allow soft eLicenser. Nevertheless, it is much more convenient and safe to have the license stored in a eLicenser (I have). That way, you can use it wherever you want - you just have to plug the key and that's it. And if, for any reason, you loose access to your OS, you don't loose the license.

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 6:14 pm

H6 has significantly deeper "sampling" and wave editing capabilities than Falcon. Falcon has better FX and probably is a slightly better hybrid synth. Obviously the latter is very subjective. I just find Falcon easier to get oddball synth combos into a viable patch. But, they do overlap a lot as "hybrid" synths.

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:19 pm

Do I need Halion Sonic when I have NI Komplete, PadshopPro, Iris2 and some other synth? Just wondering...

Romantique Tp · Post by **Romantique Tp** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:00 pm

I have Absolute 3 and NI Komplete. I think Halion Sonic complements Komplete well with bread and butter sounds of all kinds. The preset library is huge.

Neither Halion 6 or Halion Sonic 3 require a dongle anymore.

A big part of the acoustic instrument library is a mix of sounds from the Yamaha Motif XF and higher quality versions of sounds included with Hypersonic 2, with more samples, much more velocity layers and more articulations. Some of them were sampled by Wizoo but never used in any other VST plugin before. Of course they have been adding plenty of new sounds too:
https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/v ... fects.html

BeeDog · Post by **BeeDog** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:23 pm

How often does HALion tend to go on sales like this one? It's mighty tempting, but I'm not sure I can cash out the money at the moment.

ErikH · Post by **ErikH** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:24 pm

I'm wondering: I just went for Halionsonic 3 - I can upgrade to Halion later one if I want to - but as a Cubase user: do I need to keep the Halionsonic 3 SE folder? question of saving some 3GB of space ...

Romantique Tp · Post by **Romantique Tp** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:34 pm

BeeDog wrote:How often does HALion tend to go on sales like this one? It's mighty tempting, but I'm not sure I can cash out the money at the moment.

Not very often. Halion 6.5/7 will probably be released around next year so don't expect any more sales anytime soon.

ErikH wrote:I'm wondering: I just went for Halionsonic 3 - I can upgrade to Halion later one if I want to - but as a Cubase user: do I need to keep the Halionsonic 3 SE folder? question of saving some 3GB of space ...

Halion Sonic SE has like 1GB of content exclusive to Cubase users. I would just keep it installed.

chili beans · Post by **chili beans** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:37 pm

BeeDog wrote:How often does HALion tend to go on sales like this one? It's mighty tempting, but I'm not sure I can cash out the money at the moment.

Rarely. It's been a couple years since it was 50% off. I'm thinking about picking it up.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:00 pm

I know this is is the first time since the H6 cycle it has been.
and that is at least a year maybe?
rsp

felis · Post by **felis** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:52 am

Romantique Tp wrote:I have Absolute 3 and NI Komplete. I think Halion Sonic complements Komplete well with bread and butter sounds of all kinds. The preset library is huge.

Neither Halion 6 or Halion Sonic 3 require a dongle anymore......

I got Halion 6 as part of Absolute 3 last Black Friday. It won't run without the dongle.

Romantique Tp · Post by **Romantique Tp** » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:57 am

felis wrote: I got Halion 6 as part of Absolute 3 last Black Friday. It won't run without the dongle.

Yes, because Absolute 3 still requires the dongle.

Halion Sale