Nine high-end filter types including classic filters, tube drive and bit reduction offer various possibilities to form your sound to the individual character your are looking for. Beyond dozens of different arpeggio types, FlexPhraser is the perfect tool for playing complete instrument patterns in sync to the host with a touch of a single key! With the new user phrase editor, you can create your own patterns and phrases, letting you set velocity and pitch for sounds in up to 32 steps, while harnessing the additional power of two controller lanes driving even more parameters like filters and effects.
With the next-generation wavetable synthesizer in HALion no questions remain unanswered. With two aliasing-free wavetable oscillators arranged in parallel, HALion introduces a powerful yet flexible new sound source for stunning re-synthesis and unheard-of sound creations. The new profound analysis features even let you get creative using your own sounds with ease.
Wavetables are automatically extracted, envelopes directly implemented into the wavetables on the fly, the integrated pitch detection finds the right blocksizes with just a click and the graphical spectrum editor makes editing harmonics intuitive and comfortable. Create your own customized user interfaces with the what-you-see-is-what-you-get Macro Page Designer.
HALion brings the creation of instrument Macro Pages from the engineering level straight to the frontpage. Import a background, move any kind of controls from the template library on it and connect parameters from your programs to the Macro Pages via drag and drop.
Use your own custom control libraries or start with one of the several macro page style libraries that come with HALion. Your imagination is the only limit. The granular oscillator in HALion raises the standard in terms of flexibility, musicality and sound. By breaking down samples into smallest bits and by playing back the grains in any order, the spectra of all kinds of sounds can be extracted to create stunning new sonic spheres.
Each oscillator generates up to eight different grain streams, leading to impressively rich and spacious structures. The innovative feature set offers deep access to the core of the oscillator, supporting you with a fresh, flexible and great-sounding approach to creative and user-friendly granular synthesis.
Thanks to the scripting you can for example implement a logic of how to play a bass realistically when using a keyboard, do batch processing of samples or write logics of how to use a filter in a more creative way.
From surgically precise EQing to ultra-expressive sound design tools: with over 60 first-rate effect processors, HALion offers a plethora of creative options. I also liked the detailed six-string basses and the surround synth pads, and the raw Minimoog oscillator set was great, with appropriate Q Control assignments.
If your system can handle it, you should go for the XXL Programs, which have the most samples and layers and so on. Mid-quality programs reduce the number of samples by about 40 percent and Eco by about 65 percent, compared to an XXL program. In many cases, the Eco and Mid options still sound good, but could be used in situations where the part you're using them on isn't too prominent. And I guess you could use Eco programs whilst working on a track and then change to XXLs during a mix or when bouncing to disk, or if you take your session to a studio with a more powerful computer.
This is all good stuff — I just wish there was more in the library. And how strange that space has been taken up with a handful of loops, as HP doesn't have the option to change the tempo of sampled drum loops. Instead, the collection is divided into fast, medium and slow tempo sets oddly, no tempo values are given in beats per minute , which is of limited use to serious programmers — although some of the loops do sound pretty good.
While it might seem initially that there will be some redundancy if you buy a third-party Halion-based library due to the inclusion of another Halion Player, this isn't the case. Whilst the Player supplied with third-party content may have been jazzed up graphically by the third-party library developer, it will only ever be able to play that library.
The ability of HP to load programs from any library means that it's possible to mix and match favourite Programs from any banks that you own. And as I hinted earlier, Halion Player can also accommodate your own samples, within certain limits. On the plus side, HP can load a wide range of sample types though not quite as wide as the full version of Halion — see the comparison table below. The limits appear as soon as you try to do anything too fancy.
The Mapping window, used when importing your own samples. Loading samples into the currently selected Program slot is simply a matter of using the Program browser and choosing the Load Sample function. You can replace what's in the current slot or merge the new sample with it.
A pop-up Mapping window lets you determine how a sample is treated once it's loaded into a slot. You choose a start root key and then decide how the sample will be played back. If you choose the Chromatic option, one sample will be played across the whole keyboard, centred on the start key. In addition, the program can automatically set the start key if it's included as part of the sample name. So, if you add something like 'C3' or '60' ie.
Alternatively, if the file has root key data embedded in it, the software can be told to detect this. Finally, there's an option for assigning samples to just white or black keys. What's missing is a way to assign key ranges to samples.
A loaded sample is either playable across the whole MIDI range the Chromatic option or by one key only. Thus, it's possible to create, say, a drum kit or a simple one-note-per-key multi-sample, but nothing with more subtlety.
Similarly, although it's possible to assign multiple samples to one key or the entire note range , there's no way to assign velocity ranges to each layer.
And although a sample that contains a loop point as part of its data structure will loop on playback within HP, it's not possible to 'turn on' a loop for any other kind of sample.
Of course, no effects or detailed editing can be undertaken. On a positive note, once loaded, your sample set can be saved with its own Program name set the name in the Program slot window first , with Sound Edit knobs to tweak as you wish. Additionally, preset Programs can be renamed and saved. A Bank of 16 Programs can also be saved, comprising your own or factory material this option, by the way, is necessary when using Halion Player in Rewire or standalone mode, since Program assignments won't be saved from within the host as they are when running HP as a plug-in.
Recycle can produce a MIDI file that plays back the slices to maintain the original 'groove' of the file, though you can trigger them back any way you like.
Even non-beginners could find a home for HP; anyone with multiple computers that uses Halion for custom sample manipulation and Program creation could put Player on a slave computer to give them extra polyphony, MIDI channels and audio streams, saving themselves the expense of another full copy of Halion.
When all is said and done, paying under 70 quid for a capable sample-playback front end and the Halion library even with its curious omissions is a pretty fine deal.
As a beginner's introduction to sample playback, HP works admirably, and even remains viable if you add extra libraries. I see no progress in H5 concerning the list of the samples formats supported. Maybe it would be better to simply use Alchemy for this instead…. Could someone also check if the ADSR release is now handled correctly with it for.
Unfortunately you are correct. All enhancements made within HALion 5, involved portions of the program outside of compatible file formats accepted. I too, would welcome this file format as a readable format within HALion. Thanks for the confirmation. Guess that we are, you and me, more or less on the same boat, sadly. Now, I would like someone from the Steiny crew to chime in : is there anything planned to extend the list of formats supported, instead of piling up brand new and shiny features?
But what do I know? H4 trial : EMu samples bank not found What about H5? Virtual instruments HALion. Hi all, Just installed H4. Thanks for any enlightment…. Seems rather restrictive to me in these SSD days, but well… Since my first post, I also tried to use the files exported with Kontakt 5 Player.
Thanks for your input! So better and more intuitive than these two : it has integrated sampling function with Synthswipe which allows you to do a complete sampling of a sound across the keyboard and at different velocities, all in one pass.
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