I really enjoyed taking the instruments way-out and explotring just how far the sonic boundries of these piano instruments were. Each piano has the ability to create a variety of timbres thanks to the interface controls. The Eagle, which loads up with a nice resonant sample set and the Raven, a slightly darker piano upon loading. HALion 6 comes with a couple different Pianos. This one is a lot of fun and when loading up the different samples included, I was blown away by the new sounds created from tweaking out the parameters, effects, and positions for the playback to jump around. HAlion 6 also includes a synth called SkyLab. Over all, I really enjoyed this instrument and can see myself diving deep into Anima for some special synth sounds. The functionality has everything I could think of including selecting different samples, wavetables, an easy to use arpeggiator wit all the effect controls you would need. The presets have some really cutting edge sounds. The first synth I dug into was Anima.ĪNIMA is a wavetable synth. To listen to the included sounds and see what kind of functionality the libraries and synths had. The main thing I wanted to focus on was the included instruments. HALion also includes drag and drop tools that allow users to customize their own instruments interface. This allows users to record directly into HALion and the software does the cutting and mapping so your instrument is ready to play immediately after sampling. One of the big strengths of HALion is it’s set of advanced library creation tools. The Halion engine also sports a wide range of effects including the “REVerenc” convolution reverb, Modulators, resonators, amp simulators and all the usual suspects. The software comes with over 30 GB of samples from acoustic instruments and the synths range from vintage to granular to wavetable synthesis. Now, there are a lot of things to like about this software, experimenting with different wavetable oscillators with the synths and tweaking out the sounds of the acoustic instruments and taking them out even further than imaginable. I will include all of those videos in a playlist at the bottom of the page. I found myself referring to those videos several times throughout my exploration of HALion. There are a dozen or so official videos to help hold your hand, so you can get a little better lay of the land as for what HALion 6 is capable of and how to operate it. That said, the sonic delight once digging into the depths of HALion encouraged to indulge my inner tweaker and continue exploring, even if at times blindly turning knobs or adding layers to hear what might happen. The interface feels “engineered” as opposed to “designed”. Opening up the interface for the first time I wasn’t sure where to start. It didn’t help that the install process required me to download a downloader, to download the products, to download the update, to download an elicenser, to download an elicense helper before I was able to successfully get HALion 6 running in my DAW (Logic X). As I started downloading and watching the walkthrough videos I starting to feel a little overwhelmed. HALion 6 has a lot of power under the hood! In my time exploring the software I found was that all this power comes at a cost.Īs a media composer, I primarily am using ready made instruments to program quickly to create scores for the picture. HALion 6 sells for $349.99 from Steinberg with crossgrades/upgrades starting at $99. Not having used any of the previous versions of HALion, I was eager to see if the rumors were true, could this be a “mind-blowing new tool” and “go-to sonic toolbox” for a media composer like myself?įor the purposes of my review, I downloaded the latest update of HALion V6.0.1.5 HALion 6 comes with over 30GB of synths and instruments you can jump right into and start playing, but those are just the tip of the iceberg as the software was designed as a “Creative Tool” for to create your own sounds. Jump to the Videos of HALion 6 by Steinberg Jump to the Demos of HALion 6 by Steinberg All this power does come with a learning curve, although there are 20GB+ of synths and libraries you can jump right into. HALion 6 is a tweaker’s delight! From sampling to editing, synthesis to instrument interface design and scripting there is little this workhorse does not provide.
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