The controls display their modulator sources once you click them, and a drop-down menu allows you to add new ones. Changing how sounds dynamically morph is easier than ever. The level of modulation in HALion 7 has always been high but Steinberg has given it an overhaul with v7. (Image credit: Steinberg ) More modulation and creation Spectral Zone is certainly a HALion highlight and there’s enough in this section alone to change a single sound beyond all recognition. Other controls include Accelerate and Target which lets you speed up, freeze or slow down the sample as it plays back. These both twist in filter-style editing and a separate Filter tab lets you get even further into the frequency tweaking. There’s time-stretching and pitch shifting, both of which are among the most natural we have heard – but it goes deeper, with resynthesis options like Purity and Formant. Spectral Zone is another new addition, and we suspect this might take some elements from SpectraLayers, another title that has come into the Steinberg/Yamaha stable.Įither way, it lets you see and manipulate your audio in highly flexible ways. These can easily be changed (with classic DX7 options if you wish), and five main tabs take you into all other main sound tweaking areas so you’ll quickly be experimenting and creating. You get the operator guts of FM synthesis as drop-down menus or displayed graphically as an algorithm. That hardware instrument was, frankly, a pain to use FM Zone isn’t. It’s an obvious addition really, what with parent company Yamaha’s FM heritage via synths like the DX7. Version 7 includes some all-new goodies – of course, it does – the main one being FM Zone, to add to those synthesis options. Similar engines, price, effects and modulation, Falcon is a powerhouse of an instrument And its onboard effects give you a few ways of making the sound bigger, brighter, and bolder.Almost industry standard sampling instrument with huge flexibility and option to add new collections Its soft sound doesn’t need much in the way of editing to sound organic like you’re really playing a luscious piano. Here, you have an instrument that doesn’t try to be anything more than a clean-sounding piano – and that’s perfect for film scores, classical compositions, and so on. The final free HALion instrument I’ll talk about is Novel Piano. Its user interface has a dated aesthetic, the piano offers a dirty sound, and it even, and comes with chord pads and a number of onboard effects! Whether you layer them or write some counter melodies, these two instruments are not to be looked over! Meanwhile, LoFi Piano lives up to its name. Used together (with some LoFi processing on the glockenspiel instrument) they create a luscious blend of warm tones. And when you throw in some post-processing you’ll be able to make these sounds more your own.Īdditionally, the Alto Glockenspiel Essential instrument comes to life when used with the Sonic 7 LoFi Piano instrument. The Guitar Harmonics Essential instrument, for example, gives you a warm sound and texture perfect for creating many a chilled tune, so HALion Sonic 7 does give you a special bit of content.įurthermore, its warm tones are well suited to nice melodies and even some interesting sound effects with a bit of post-processing. Though the controls on HALion Sonic 7 are very limited, the sounds available in the software are worth awning over. HALion Sonic 7 is here, and it gives you a handful of free libraries with new presets and sounds made with the bigger HALion 7 sampler. All of HALion 7’s audio enhancements are included, of course, but users cannot make changes to any of the presets. It’s a slimmed-down version of the bigger virtual instrument and only provides access to HALion presets. HALion Sonic is essentially like the Player version of Kontakt. The latest update of Steinberg’s HALion 7 sample player offers many new tools for manipulating your sounds in addition to brand new FM & wavetable synthesis engines. The new sample player comes after the official launch of HALion 7 – Steinberg’s flagship sampler. Steinberg has released an updated version of the free HALion Sonic 7 sample player.
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