Steinberg today announced the launch of its HALion Player OEM software. Tailored to meet the needs of sample content producers, HALion Player OEM provides all the advantages of the HALion sampler platform, and represents a new bundled player instrument for sample content.

Offering the famed sound quality and copy protection facilities of the HALion sampler platform, HALion Player OEM is the ideal OEM player for inclusion with sample content libraries. For the first time, a sample player product is available as an OEM version that gives full copy protection for any sample content it is provided with, utilizing the latest generation of Steinberg's USB-based copy protection system. This gives sample content producers the same strong yet unobtrusive copy protection as featured in the latest version of Steinberg's Cubase SX3, Nuendo 3 and HALion 3 products.

HALion Player OEM is based around the same advanced HALion sampling engine that powers Steinberg's award-winning HALion 3.1 virtual sampling instrument. Innovative features such as the new Q-Controls allow sample content creators to define and create the parameters necessary for the end customer to form and shape sounds through the intuitive user interface. HALion Player OEM also features a custom GUI tailored to the sample product, blending in to the design of the sample library product.

The first sample library products featuring this new OEM product are already on display at NAMM -> see the Scarbee VKC and Project Sam True Strike 1 announcements.