Steinberg Absolute 6 VST Instrument Collection (Crossgrade from HALion 6)

Steinberg 91479 Overview

Create your next masterpiece with Steinberg Absolute 6, a software collection of virtual instruments, a sampler, drum-design tools, and workstation plug-ins, and expansion packs for bass, choir, orchestra, and keys. It`s all designed to offer inspiring and deep-level functionality for sound designers, composers, electronic musicians, and producers, in studio-based production and live performances.

Get tons of creative instruments, with 136GB of sound content and 7500 inspiring presets for every kind of music production. The collection includes sampler, piano, synths, bass, drum, percussion, organ, brass, choir, and cinematic instruments and expansion packs. Absolute 6 supports Audio Units, VST2, VST3, and AAX plug-in formats, and is compatible with macOS and Windows.

New in Version 6

HALion 7 Absolute Collection now comes with HALion 7, a groundbreaking premium-quality software instrument developed to help you create world-class music and design sounds. Delve into the iconic sound of FM synthesis, harness the power of spectral synthesis, embrace a new approach to modulation, create and customize unique envelopes, be inspired by new effects, and much more.

FM Lab FM Lab is your all-in-one FM synthesizer for HALion. Modern, intuitive and powerful, FM Lab allows you to design sounds from the ground up. Assign modulations via drag and drop, use different oscillator presets or design complex algorithms in a fun way. It`s entirely up to you. Worried about programming? No problem - FM Lab comes with hundreds of cutting-edge presets, ranging from classic sounds with a new twist to some of the most contemporary and progressive FM sounds ever produced.

Tales Tales is beautifully recorded guitar, designed for every story you want to tell. It brings together contemporary acoustic sounds with additional guitar and synthesized textures to inspire every note you play. Recorded with open strings, muted notes, and harmonics, Tales delivers instant inspiration every time you play it.

Featured Content

Sampler and Workstation

• HALion 7 A limitless source of inspiration for your music production. With six different forms of synthesis, including additive, granular and wavetable, a performance-orientated sample engine, fast assignable modulations and effects, and stellar precision when working with audio, HALion will help you create your most innovative sounds yet.

Synthesizer and Electronic Music

• FM Lab This powerful and versatile FM synthesizer for HALion allows you to create complex and dynamic sounds by combining up to eight operators, using them as carriers or sending them to feedback loops. With its intuitive design, features like the Algorithm Finder and easy-to-use Algorithm Designer, you can design everything from classic FM bell tones to rich, evolving pads or hard, abrasive bass lines.
• Retrologue 2 With classic vintage analog synth sounds and attention-grabbing sonic bites, Retrologue 2 is perfect for fat and funky lead and bass creation.
• Sounds of Soul Four decades of synth sounds combined in one beautiful Retrologue expansion.
• Padshop 2 Padshop 2 is a unique synthesizer, which features two engines, granular and spectral, that both allow you to edit the smallest bits, grains, and building blocks of samples, morphing them into completely new sounds. Compatible with any DAW that uses VST, AAX, or AU plug-ins, with more than 570 outstanding presets and the ability to import your own samples, Padshop 2 will change how you work with samples forever.
• Polarities Electronic and acoustic sounds that complement and oppose each other at the same time.
• Skylab Soaring through space like a bright star, Skylab`s unique combination of a huge sample library and granular synthesis is the ideal creative tool for attention-grabbing cinematic scores and electronic music.
• Anima Anima features a huge palette of cutting-edge synth sounds. Coupled with a powerful arpeggiator, flexible modulation section and two wavetable oscillators, modern electronic music production has never sounded so good.
• Voltage Many of the most famous analog synthesizers from the past inspired Voltage. Adding the sonic range and power of true vintage style bass, it delivers truly inspirational lead sounds that characterize the warmth and class of the best electronic music.
• Auron Auron will inspire you to create unique new soundscapes, but also provides 160 granular synthesis presets for quick access to great-sounding pads, textures and timbres.
• Triebwerk For great club sounds with soaring synths, hypnotic beats, and classic vocals, Triebwerk is the go-to choice
• Granular Guitars With nearly 3GB of studio-grade samples, Granular Guitars features a wide range of acoustic and electric guitars, alongside traditional instruments like psaltery, Celtic harp, and oud. It also features experimental guitar treatments for Padshop Pro.
• Hypnotic Dance With 400 synth-heavy dance sounds, Hypnotic Dance is truly a classic. Featuring a custom-designed macro page, it delivers thick bass lines, soaring leads, and finely textured pads.
• Trium Trium proves that analog doesn`t have to mean retro. Its clean user interface and great sounds are sure to inspire your creativity.
• HALiotron The sounds of 1960s and `70s rock and pop have left an indelible mark on music history. HALiotron is a painstaking reconstruction of the analog technology that helped to make it such a great era.

Brass

• Hot Brass A multisampled brass library with gloriously fat, tight, and authentic sounds, which are perfect for contemporary pop, funk, reggae, and soul music.

Organ

• Model C Variously described as smoky, punchy and silky, the Model C is a tonewheel organ emulation which is suitable for a wide range of musical styles.

Pianos

• Amped Elektra Smooth like butter, beautiful like a sunset, warm like a summer`s night. Amped Elektra is for the soul.
• The Eagle The Eagle grand piano has a rich and transparent sound, which is ideally suited to modern pop, rock, and jazz, as well as classical music.
• The Grand 3 Five meticulously sampled outstanding pianos from Yamaha, Steinway, and Bsendorfer, bringing prestige and true sonic excellence to your music.
• The Raven The Raven is a grand piano that delivers a beautifully rich harmonic sound with stunning nuances. It has a natural, precise playing feel that oozes craftsmanship and class.

Drums and Percussion

• Groove Agent 5 With fantastic electronic and acoustic drum kits, brilliant MIDI grooves, live sampling, beat creation tools, and unique features like Decompose to create your own signature drum sound, Groove Agent 5 is the ultimate in rhythm excellence.
• Future Past Perfect This Groove Agent Expansion delivers a tool kit for New York House, Future House, and Techno.
• Backbone The beat is the backbone of a track. With Backbone, you can intuitively design drums with up to eight layers.
• Prime Cuts Created by British producer Beat Butcha, Prime Cuts brings the latest hip-hop rhythms and sounds to Groove Agent.
• Rock Essentials There is nothing quite like a hard-hitting rock beat to drive a song along. Rock Essentials brings the essence of over four decades of classic rock music directly into your music.
• World Percussion From Africa to Asia, Europe, and many other places, World Percussion allows you to play and record percussion from right across the globe.
• B-Box B-Box is a step sequencer for beats and drum tracks. It features 13 instruments and 16 steps, each with velocity control and integrated mixing section the perfect tool for straightforward creation of great rhythms.

Guitars

• Tales This beautiful sample library combines the intimate sound of a handcrafted guitar with individual strings sampled as open notes and tuned to different pitches, with additional acou