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Product HALion
Developer Steinberg
Primary Type Sampler/Sample Player
Price (MSRP) $399.99
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WindowsWindows 64 / x64 3.5.593 -Released
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Supported Sample Formats include AIFF, Akai, EMU, EXS24, Giga, HALion, Kontakt, LM-4, REX, Roland, SDII, SF2, WAV
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Average User Rating Average rating - 6.438
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HALion

HALion 3 can load almost every sound library available on the market and offers numerous tools to shape and even radically reinvent sounds.

Features:

  • 256 voices, 16-way multi-timbral, 128 programs per instance.
  • Supports nearly all common sampler formats, audio file formats as well as ISO, Nero and Toast Disc Images.
  • Resource-sparing operation courtesy of innovative RAMSave technology.
  • 5.1 Surround-enabled Sample Engine, supports audio files up to 384 kHz.
  • Unlimited number of virtual outputs.
  • High-quality Waldorf filters.
  • Extensive effect section.
  • Integrated browser with useful tools for searching, organizing, categorizing and archiving your samples.
  • Fantastic options for shaping sounds (Loop editor, synchronizable envelopes and LFOs, STEP envelopes, etc.).
  • HALion 3 sound library containing more than 160 high-quality instruments.

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Chicken Systems releases Instrument Manager 13th October 2009
Steinberg launches VST Sound Instrument Set Synthesizers (HALion ONE expansion) 25th September 2009
Steinberg releases eLCC successor to Syncrosoft LCC software 15th September 2009
AcousticsampleS releases AcademicGrand for EXS24, GIGA, SFZ and HALion 1st July 2009
Steinberg releases HALion v3.5 21st May 2009
Steinberg announces HALion 3.5 (incl. compatibility with 64-bit Vista) 1st April 2009
Chicken Systems releases Constructor Universal Instrument Builder 11th November 2008
MOTU announces 'Upgrade to MachFive 2' offer (from GigaStudio, Kontakt and others) 11th November 2008
Precisionsound releases Angelic Vocal Pads 4 [WAV|SF2|HAL|KON] 26th September 2008
Blue Sound Studios & GotchaNoddin.com release Club Bangin Kicks Vol.1 [KON|EXS|HAL|...] 12th September 2008
Yamaha announces Music Production Power Pack 4th July 2008
Precisionsound releases Meghan Celtic Harp [HAL|KON|SF2] 10th June 2008
Realsamples releases Early Pianoforte - Edition Beurmann [KON|HAL|...] 3rd June 2008
Loopmasters launches Artist Series Downloads with Future Drum & Bass from Nu:Tone 28th April 2008
Realsamples releases Dutch Harpsichord - Edition Beurmann [HAL|KON|...] 28th April 2008
Precisionsound releases Chimes Collection for HALion, Kontakt & Gigastudio 15th April 2008
Precisionsound releases ACE 3000 for HALion, Kontakt & SoundFont 17th March 2008
Realsamples releases Grand Piano (Erard Pianoforte) - Edition Beurmann 1st February 2008
Realsamples releases English Spinet and Italian Harpsichord [KON|HAL|...] 28th January 2008
Precisionsound releases The Blanchet Cembalo for HALion, Kontakt & SoundFont 25th January 2008
GotchaNoddin releases Soul Vocals Vol.2 [KON|HAL|...] 22nd January 2008
Precisionsound releases Gefle Bells for HALion, Kontakt & SoundFont 20th December 2007
Precisionsound releases Solovox [HAL|Kon|SF2] 12th December 2007
Precisionsound releases Monzter Bazz for HALion and Kontakt 19th November 2007
Sounds And Effects Pure Acoustic now available for HALion, EXS24 and Reason 29th October 2007
Natural Studio announces final remanufacturing of the ns_kit7 library [HAL|KON|WAV] 4th October 2007
Precisionsound releases Moldova Concert Cimbalom for HALion & Kontakt 28th September 2007
Sounds And Effects releases Electrified! guitars [KON|HAL|EXS|...] 28th September 2007
Vienna Symphonic Library announces Close-Out Sale of Pro Edition and Horizon Series sample libraries 16th July 2007
Steinberg updates HALion 3, HSO, HSE2 and HALion Player 11th July 2007
Sample Magic releases Sunset Sessions [HAL|KON|EXS|...] 28th June 2007
Precisionsound releases Alpine Concert Zither [KON|HAL|SF2] 22nd May 2007
Precisionsound releases Ethno Percussion Collection Vol.1 - DAF [KON|HAL|SF2] 19th May 2007
GotchaNoddin releases Reggaeton Drums Vol.4 [KON|HAL|...] 16th May 2007
Precisionsound releases Bergman Klavitron and Stylophone 350s [HAL|KON|SF2] 3rd May 2007
Modern Beats releases Tru Bass 1 - Electric Six [KON|HAL|EXS|...] 2nd May 2007
Steinberg updates HALion (incl. Player, String Edition, Symphonic Orchestra & OEM) and The Grand (incl. Universal Binary) 27th April 2007
ChocolateAudio releases Bonzo Drum Kit (KON|HAL|EXS|...) 24th April 2007
PowerFX releases Grand Colour download (KON/HAL) 23rd April 2007
Steinberg announces updates to VST Instruments for Intel-based Macs 28th March 2007
AcustiX releases Steinway Piano III and Bösendorfer Piano II (HAL|SFZ) 8th March 2007
Soniccouture release Konkrete 2 - Drum & Percussion Library (KON|HAL|EXS|BAT) 8th March 2007
Precisionsound releases Retro Gadgets - First Chapter [HAL|KON|SF2] 23rd February 2007
Realsamples releases Hollow Body Guitar Collection Vol.1 & 2 and the Classic Bass Collection 21st February 2007
Precisionsound releases ARTificial Drums & Percussions (HAL|KON|BAT|008) 7th February 2007
Precisionsound releases Dream Whistles for HALion and Kontakt 18th December 2006
Precisionsound releases Persian Santur for HALion, Kontakt & SF2 11th December 2006
Steinberg makes HALion v3.2.2.1400 Pre-Release available 21st November 2006
Precisionsound releases Greek Lira [HAL|KON] 12th October 2006
Precisionsound releases Owerland Guitar (HAL|KON|SF2) 5th September 2006
Steinberg releases HALion Symphonic Orchestra 8th June 2006
Steinberg updates HALion & HALion Player to v3.2.1.1338 18th April 2006
AudioWarrior releases Kreator LE Acoustic Dreadnought 5th April 2006
Steinberg announces HALion Symphonic Orchestra 29th March 2006
Soniccouture releases Abstrakt: Konkrete (KON/BAT/HAL/EXS/NNXT) 1st February 2006
AudioWarrior releases Kreator v1.0 27th January 2006
Auxbuss releases HALion3 Unleashed (video tutorial) 26th January 2006
AcustiX Steinway Piano II released (HAL) 18th January 2006
Precisionsound releases Bolivian Panpipe (HAL/Kon/SF2) 27th November 2005
Precisionsound releases Lyra (HAL/KON/SF2) 31st October 2005
ModernBeats releases Brass Elementz 2 (HAL/KON/EXS/BAT) 24th October 2005
Precisionsound releases Philicorda GM 751 (HAL/Kon/SF2) 20th October 2005
CDxtract releases Samplit v1.0.6 19th October 2005
CDxtract releases Samplit 21st September 2005
Precisionsound releases Langegard Pump Organ (HAL/KON) 20th September 2005
Precisionsound releases Ethereal (Kontakt/HALion) 28th June 2005
ModernBeats releases Brass Elementz 1 19th May 2005
SKYLIFE announces SampleRobot 29th March 2005
ModernBeats releases Vintage Machinez 1 23rd March 2005
Steinberg releases HALion v3.1 9th March 2005
Precisionsound releases Funky Electric P200 (HAL/Kon/Sfz) 1st March 2005
Tekniks releases two new Sample CDs 24th February 2005
Precisionsound releases Electronic Producer #1 2nd February 2005
Steinberg announces HALion Player OEM version 20th January 2005
Scarbee announces Vintage Keyboard Collection plug-in 20th January 2005
Steinberg announces HALion Player 20th January 2005
Steinberg HALion v3.1 pre-release available 29th December 2004
Precisionsound releases Monzter Guitars 20th December 2004
VSL Horizon Series, Performance Tool Tutorials and Special Offers 17th December 2004
Precisionsound releases Nordic Upright Piano for HALion & Kontakt 10th November 2004
Precisionsound releases Demonic - Voices from hell 25th October 2004
VSL Horizon Series for HALion & Kontakt 22nd October 2004
IK Multimedia releases Six Sonik Capsules 15th October 2004
ModernBeats releases Vinyl Scratchez 2 12th October 2004
Precisionsound releases Celtic Whistles for HALion / Kontakt 11th October 2004
HALion v3.0.1.538 update released 4th October 2004
Precision Sound releases Privilege Flute SampleSet 4th October 2004
Precisionsound releases Kloo Mandolin 21st August 2004
sampleLab libraries available via Time+Space (UK) 19th August 2004
HALion v3.0.1.512 (pre-release 2) available 11th August 2004
HALion v3.0.1.489 pre-release (PB1) update released 28th July 2004
Steinberg Virtual Instruments Collection released 6th July 2004
Steinberg HALion 3 now shipping worldwide 22nd June 2004
Steinberg announces HALion 3 31st March 2004
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.0.3.5 10th March 2004
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.0.3.4 19th February 2004
Extreme Sample Converter v2.0.1 released 7th February 2004
Steinberg HALion v2.0.3 PB3 released 2nd February 2004
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.0.2.2 (OS X) 25th November 2003
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.0.2.1 & Hypersonic shipping 24th October 2003
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.0.2 8th October 2003
Steinberg HALion updated to v2.01 11th August 2003
Ultimate Sound Bank launches Soundscan2 website 24th June 2003
HALion 2.0 is now shipping 16th April 2003
Steinberg announce HALion v2.0 @ Musikmesse 5th March 2003
Sonic Reality announces UFO: Universal Format Outputter! 23rd January 2003
New banks/patches for Kontakt/Reaktor/HALion added 11th January 2003
TR-808 kit for Battery/HALion/Kontakt/LM-4 1 & 2 10th January 2003
HAL - Sample Previewer and Database for HALion released 3rd December 2002
Sonic Reality introduces Sonic Station, multi-format sample library and universal wave bank 13th November 2002
Steinberg HALion v1.13 released 23rd October 2002
Kontakt cross-grade offers 17th August 2002
MAZ shipping 10-CD-Samples-Bundle for VSampler, HALion and EXS24 19th May 2002
Orphan HALion patches 12th May 2002
Steinberg HALion v1.11 released 21st February 2002

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By lordvader48
On 11th April 2007
Version: 2.1.144

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Steinberg's HALion is marketed as a "VST sampler". Unfortunately, it is anything but a sampler. HALion can't record samples, lacks waveform editing, and even lacks sample drag & drop to/from a VST host.

Perhaps in the early days of VSTi's these kinds of limitations in a software sampler were acceptable. That certainly isn't the case now. I think we all expected that HALion and Kontakt would be rounded out with these critical capabailities by now. After all, what good is a sampler that can't even sample? If HALion provided proper drag & drop of sampled material the lack of sampling and waveform editing might not be so crippling. But as things stand, HALion is really only good for loading and playing sound libraries. It is certainly not a "VST sampler" as Steinberg claims.

HALion also has serious problems in the file management area. HALion saves Programs by saving separate files for all of the constituent sample files for the program. This leads to a big tangled mess of files on your hard disk. HALion does provide a ".hsb file format" which saves bank contents to a single file, but be warned that once you save your bank as a ".hsb" you will be unable to access your samples outside of HALion!

Finally, HALion's onboard effects are weak, and the routing of effects is very hard to understand and use.

I've marked down HALion in the ratings because the manufacturer mistakenly claims that HALion is a sampler. When Steinberg finally gets around to addressing these problems I will raise these ratings accordingly.

HALion is in dire need of an update. Image-Line's DirectWave costs 1/4 as much as HALion, and does not have the debilitating limitations. DirectWave is a much better and much more useful sampling tool.
 
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The current HALion 3 release (3.1 final) is stable in every regard; a _huge_ number of bugs has been fixed since the very first build of 3.0. The integration in Cubase SX has always been great and very straight forward. I don't think the user interface is very beautiful, but it does what it should. The interface has been improved quite a lot for those people who create or edit programs. The new effects are really fine.

The filters are much better since version 2.x, and the delivered content is very usable and of high quality. The drums and strings are simply great (the drums already were in 2.x). BUT: The delivered content is preset only; you can't extract the samples or use them to create own patches, though you can edit the programs. So if you are used to archive your songs together with the samples you use, e. g. on DVD-R, you won't be able to, except you burn down the complete content archives of HALion 3 again and again (4 huge files).

With 3.1 (final) a new streaming mode was introduced, that gives a lot better performance than any previous HALion version. Comparisons with Kontakt show that it beats the latest version of the NI sampler, too.

HALion 3.1 finally is a mature product and is recommended to anyone who needs many many voices, excellent disk streaming and a powerful and really complete sampler.

HALion 3 comes together with a front end so it can also be used stand alone. According to the forums, there's some issues left with this and certain audio cards, and preferences are not always remembered correctly, so I recommend to use brainspawn forte or a similar host instead.

There's a quite active support forum at http://forum.cubase.net.
 
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Formats: VSTDirectX
General Features: Real-time processing with 32-bit Floating Point accuracy. ASIO, WDM and MME driver support. Support for 8-, 16-, 20-, 24-, 32-bit files with up to 192 kHz resolution. Support for WAV, AIFF, AU, Ensoniq Paris 24 bit, Sound Designer II, Ulaw, MP3, MP2 (M.U.S.I.C.A.M.), WMA, AVI Audio, Sun/Java etc.. Support of Redbook Audio CD and DVD Audio. Proprietary file format: OSQ for loss-less compression of audio files for archiving. Apogee UV22 HR Dithering. Save while work: simultaneous saving of multiple audio files in background. Full featured recording with up to eight audio chann... [more]

 
Product: Xphraze
Developer: Steinberg
Type: Phrase Synth
Price: €249
OS: WindowsMac OS X
Formats: VSTAudio Unit
Create chord patterns, riffs, bass lines, effects, arpeggios, morphs, pads, leads, even 4-track songs quickly and intuitively with Xphraze. With chopping rave chords, complex polyphonic soundscapes, screaming bass and lead riffs, luscious sweeping pads and tempo-synced sound effects, Xphraze will have your music exploding from your speakers all in perfect sync.Features: Comes with a huge library with literally hundreds of ready-to-go Combis, Patches and Phrazes. Just pick what you need and go or tweak it to your needs in no time. Four-part multi-timbral polyphonic phrase synthesizer, full loop... [more]

 
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