![]() Lots of pre-sets but I found the ‘pack’ system a bit confusing, lots of legacy packs and I didn’t really know what they were for as a new user, I just wanted the good (new) stuff- they could use a ‘best of’ (unless I have missed that) The sample based contact outside of the synth engines is OK not as good as Kontakt stuff in my opinion, but the new guitar instrument is pretty good (Kontakt standard) but the old stuff has tiny low res GUIs and are pretty basic. learning curve is about the same as Falcon in my opinion, could be easier (even some basic stuff is a bit cryptic) but then I guess you loose some flexibility if you make the work only flow one way. Some of the effects are a bit vanilla (like the delay and chorus) compared to Falcon, but overall with all the layers, arps, modulators and engines you could pretty much do anything. Any sound designer is going to have a lot of fun here! No cross modulation between engines, but there is a lot of other modulation options that area easy to apply and very customisable (shaper etc). Other than that, its pretty impressive, lots of engines (zones) and the new FM zone is a bit of a star (and has a bigger, better GUI as a player). Haven’t used Halion for a long time, but use Falcon and Kontakt a lot so here is my take.įirstly the bad- GUI is still horrible, its flexible in terms of layout but no scaling (very small if you are 4K) and some strange design decisions like dark grey text and small buttons against black and tiny little arrows hiding important menus- style over function in my opinion. Padshop 2 (including Polarities, Zero Gravity and Granular Guitars).Retrologue 2 (including Sounds of Soul).Groove Agent 5 (including Prime Cuts,Future Past Perfect, Rock Essentials).Together with the launch of HALion 7, Steinberg will also launch Absolute 6. New tools for designing instruments like SVG resources which can be animated by Lua, color options.Additional new features: 10 new effects, Decompose, X-LFO, Chord export from Trigger Pads, impulse response import and the new Oscilloscope.Advanced wavetable synthesis for multichannel files with up to 5.1 surround and spectral filters.A fresh new look and feel: Updated interface, a redesigned MediaBay and search plus tons of workflow improvements.New Shaper Envelope: The User Envelope now has brush, pen and eraser tools for intuitively drawing and customizing envelopes.Modulation reimagined: Shape, tweak and animate your sounds more easily than ever with HALion’s new modulation concept.Guitar strings were individually sampled as open notes and thentuned to a different pitch, giving each one a very pure and intimate sound additionally layered with acoustic and synthesized textures. FM Lab: A full-blown eight operator FM synthesizer with hundreds of cutting-edge presets.It allows to change playback speed in real time without affecting the pitch, but it can also transform samples into completely new sounds. Spectral Zone: the new spectral oscillator features a new in-house developed time-stretch and resynthesis algorithm. ![]() Including an Algorithm Finder, an Algorithm Designer and SYX file import. FM Zone - developed with Yamaha: Freely combine up to eight operators, use them as carriers or send them to feedback loops.
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