Steinberg HALion 6 & HALion Sonic 3

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Great, so it will load all HS5 content? I don't need to keep both running side by side?

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aMUSEd wrote:Great, so it will load all HS5 content? I don't need to keep both running side by side?
You CAN'T load them side by side. It is a replacement. There are ways around that "replacement" process, but they are unpleasant.
If you have to ask, you can't afford the answer

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That's fine, I prefer that - providing - it will still load all that H5 can including Simon's Halion libraries and my own patches.
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V0RT3X wrote:You can crossgrade from Kontakt / Komplete, Falcon, Machfive, Omnisphere for $249.00
That is nice, but I hope you don't have to give up the license you are cross-grading from?

"HALion 6 Crossgrade Proof of eligibilty required"

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V0RT3X wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Wow...just wow.

Oh well, that's $350 I won't have to spend.

Thanks Steinberg. You just saved me a lot of money.

You can crossgrade from Kontakt / Komplete, Falcon, Machfive, Omnisphere for $249.00
Great. So they saved me $249.

I'm on Windows 7.

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So I've just downloaded the Halion 6 28GB files and I'm installing them.. can I delete Halion 5 folder now or do I need it?

edit:what a pointless process. Out of the 28GB download it only actually needed to install an extra 570MB over Halion 5.

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28 GB?!? :o

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wickfut wrote:So I've just downloaded the Halion 6 28GB files and I'm installing them.. can I delete Halion 5 folder now or do I need it?

edit:what a pointless process. Out of the 28GB download it only actually needed to install an extra 570MB over Halion 5.
lol really? I thought it had loads of new content?

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aMUSEd wrote:I thought it had loads of new content?
But mainly in the plugin itself, and not sample content

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fluffy_little_something wrote:28 GB?!? :o
That's nothing, Kontakt ships with 40GB+

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Not sure what you mean there, it is supposed to have new Pianos, brass libraries etc. Surely they are based on sample content, not just new GUIs?

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wickfut wrote:So I've just downloaded the Halion 6 28GB files and I'm installing them.. can I delete Halion 5 folder now or do I need it?

edit:what a pointless process. Out of the 28GB download it only actually needed to install an extra 570MB over Halion 5.
You sure that those 570 MB aren't just the plugin itself? Like aMUSEd, i would have thought Halion 6 features quite a lot of additional sample content.

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So what is it that you can do with HALion (+Cubase) that you can't do with Kontakt, sound/feature wise?

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aMUSEd wrote:Not sure what you mean there, it is supposed to have new Pianos, brass libraries etc. Surely they are based on sample content, not just new GUIs?
You are right, it is stated that Hot Brass and Studio Strings are multi-sampled, so how they managed to squeeze that into 570MB seems weird.

Maybe stuff needs to be downloaded after installing H6 ?

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keyman_sam wrote:So what is it that you can do with HALion (+Cubase) that you can't do with Kontakt, sound/feature wise?
Does Kontakt have a VA engine, and granular synthesis?

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