KVR Audio

felis · Post by **felis** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:33 pm

Until Apr. 12, 2018:

https://www.steinberg.net/en/newsandeve ... -4692.html

cowby · Post by **cowby** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 2:38 pm

My GAS leak again. The price to me is unbeatable esp Halion 6. But I've over spent too much money during last X'mas till Easter for VSTs ..

Armagibbon · Post by **Armagibbon** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 3:39 pm

Gotta wonder... would anyone even want this absolute thing instead of komplete?
The halion that comes with cubase is just patch playback and nothin else with some wack 90s soundin shit so I don't even install it. Doesn't give high hopes for the full thing you know?

What's special bout halion 6 vs kontakt? Anything jump out for 250 bucks?

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:31 pm

Armagibbon wrote: What's special bout halion 6 vs kontakt?

Steinberg is a "download-once-install-many" whereas Kontakt via N-Access pushes for each machine to have its own downloads.

As an experiment, I removed Komplete Ultimate from my systems and then subsequently sold it. While I still have sample libraries for it and may one day opt to get Kontakt 6 if it ever comes out just to use one particular library, I don't think I would ever waste my time and energy again on anything else in their product line again (well, maybe Guitar Rig 6).

In short, I'm much happier and my time has greatly freed up without Native Instruments. But I also doubt I need the full Absolute 3 package either. Had it with Cubase and never used anything but my separate license for H6 which for me is complete enough for what it does.

Romantique Tp · Post by **Romantique Tp** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:17 pm

Armagibbon wrote:Gotta wonder... would anyone even want this absolute thing instead of komplete?
The halion that comes with cubase is just patch playback and nothin else with some wack 90s soundin shit so I don't even install it. Doesn't give high hopes for the full thing you know?

What's special bout halion 6 vs kontakt? Anything jump out for 250 bucks?

The Halion Sonic SE that comes with Cubase primarily uses sounds from the original Yamaha Motif from 2001, along with a few select sounds from newer Yamaha keyboards.

Halion 6 and Halion Sonic 3 use an almost completely different and much newer set of samples, and also offer 4 very good sounding synth engines (wavetable, granular, synth, organ, FM sometime in the future). Halion Sonic 3 is widely regarded as one of the best if not the best workstation-style synth around. The editability is also far deeper than HS SE.

I think comparing Halion 6 with Kontakt is apples and oranges. Most people only buy Kontakt for the third party libraries, while Halion makes creating your own sounds or editing existing presets accessible and fast. The interface is also extremely customizable, allowing you to speed up pretty much any task.

The full version of Groove Agent 4 also comes with almost completely different content compared to the version that comes with Cubase. I personally quite like the electronic kits. Not everyone likes the stock acoustic kits (these will probably be replaced in GA5), but the expansions are pretty good.

felis · Post by **felis** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:49 pm

I've got Absolute 3 and Komplete 11. There are things I like better about each.
Halion 6 is able to be configured to my liking much easier than Kontakt.

I would have to be able to write scripts for Kontakt for things that are readily available in Halion,
and I can't, and don't want to have to write scripts.

I really like Guitar rig and Battery 4 from Komplete, as well as a couple others.
Absolute is deep enough that I don't have a grasp on a lot of it yet.
But everything I've wanted to do with it is pretty easy to accomplish.

Most people probably wouldn't use everything that's included in either one,
but I guess that's the case with all the collections.

Hey Romantique Tp: I spent some time on a few chats with a couple Steinberg people today,
and I'm happy to say that they got me up and running smoothly, after a few panicky moments
of losing all my licenses. But all is OK now.

Still can't get on the forum there, but I can live with that.

Brother Greg · Post by **Brother Greg** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:20 pm

Do you know if this 50% off sale is an annual event?

felis · Post by **felis** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:08 am

Brother Greg wrote:Do you know if this 50% off sale is an annual event?

I bought Absolute 3 last Black Friday. But it was 40% off then, not 50%.

A better deal now.

Klinke1 · Post by **Klinke1** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:23 am

Went to the checkout and it's 250 + VAT 40euro. Bummer.
(dunno..but got birthday soon..no i should not do it..but ..oh man

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MattMusic · Post by **MattMusic** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:46 am

Absolute 3 is 219 Euros at https://www.bestservice.de

If you hurry & use Easter coupon code "yes20!" you can get it for 199Euros

This code seems to be only valid till April 4 though

kanoharuayu · Post by **kanoharuayu** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 2:18 am

Armagibbon wrote:Gotta wonder... would anyone even want this absolute thing instead of komplete?
The halion that comes with cubase is just patch playback and nothin else with some wack 90s soundin shit so I don't even install it. Doesn't give high hopes for the full thing you know?

What's special bout halion 6 vs kontakt? Anything jump out for 250 bucks?

Here's just Halion SE (the free version with cubase) playing a quick mock up, it has keyswitches for the guitar and strings and stuff, this isn't even halions new multi sampled string/brass librarys

it also comes with so many synths, I'm just talking about halion so far, and really amazing granular sampling, state of the art. I'm thinking of buying just for halion, the other included products are great as well lol

https://soundcloud.com/kotozo/testtraka

Klinke1 · Post by **Klinke1** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:44 am

MattMusic wrote:Absolute 3 is 219 Euros at https://www.bestservice.de

If you hurry & use Easter coupon code "yes20!" you can get it for 199Euros

This code seems to be only valid till April 4 though

Still down to 219,- (code didn't work anymore)
Thanks for the info.

Armagibbon · Post by **Armagibbon** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:54 am

Klinke1 wrote:
MattMusic wrote:Absolute 3 is 219 Euros at https://www.bestservice.de

If you hurry & use Easter coupon code "yes20!" you can get it for 199Euros

This code seems to be only valid till April 4 though
Still down to 219,- (code didn't work anymore)
Thanks for the info.

Code still works on the english site man. Least it works for me. I'm in the states. Might be tied to ip maybe try a proxy?

Klinke1 · Post by **Klinke1** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:48 am

Armagibbon wrote: Code still works on the english site man. Least it works for me. I'm in the states. Might be tied to ip maybe try a proxy?

Actually.. my clock was already on 5th while KVR was still/is on 4th.
Tried 2-3 times with the code.. and then fired my guns. No prob, thx.
(90GB

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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:09 am

I Just dont like the cumbersome guis of Steinberg but die this price IT seems to bei a No brainer? I mean Simon Always preaches

for halion 6 that it is still better than nearly every other granular synth? Cause with alchemy 2 only on Mac i Miss the great soundquality of IT....

50% off Steinberg Absolute 3