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Product HALion Player
Developer Steinberg
Primary Type Sampler/Sample Player
Price (MSRP) $129.99
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Instrument(s)VSTDirectXAudio Unit
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WindowsWindows 64 / x64 3.5.0.592 -Released
Mac OS XMac OS X Universal Binary 3.5.0.592 -Released
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Copy Protection Dongle (USB-eLicenser)
Supported Sample Formats include AIFF, HALion, LM-4, REX, REX2, WAV
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HALion Player

HALion Player includes the full HALion 3 sound library, consisting of a broad selection of highest quality instrument and drum sounds, and utilizes the surround-capable HALion 3 playback engine. HALion Player also offers the Waldorf filters and disk-streaming power that have helped establish HALion 3 as one of the top virtual samplers available today in terms of both sound quality and performance.

The unique Q-Control concept introduced in HALion 3.1 provides HALion Player with an adaptable set of sound-shaping controls. All HALion libraries include predefined Q-Controls which have been assigned to a certain set of parameters by the content creator and are chosen to ideally suit shaping and forming sound for that program. This allows a high degree of flexibility in altering and shaping sounds with HALion Player, while keeping functional clutter to a minimum.

The advanced HALion Player program loading facilities unify finding, selecting and loading a sound for quick, no-hassle access to even the largest HALion sample libraries. HALion Player also offers 256-voice polyphony delivering pristine 32-bit audio to up to 256 audio outputs into the mixer of the host application.

Features

  • HALion 3 technology at an affordable price.
  • Ultra easy user interface, clean, handy and easy to understand even for beginners, simply can’t misused.
  • Includes the full HALion 3 sound library, consisting of a broad selection of highest quality instrument and drum sounds.
  • Loads and plays back any HALion HSB, fxp and fxb Content.
  • Allows import and keyboard mapping of Wav / AIFF / Rex / Rex2 / ZGR and LM4 files.
  • Q-Controls - 8 Content pre-defined Sound shaping parameters per program allows instant fun while tweaking without the need to understand the complex architecture creating the Sound. Remote controllable with the all new set & forget MIDI learn mode.
  • Sound Category System support, no difference between finding, selecting and loading a Sound.
  • 256 voices polyphony and a maximum of 256 audio outputs, 16 sounds on 16 MIDI channels simultaneously per instance.
  • Rewire and standalone support.

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