Steinberg HALion 7 Sample and Synthesis Platform Software (Crossgrade)

Steinberg 91455 Overview

Steinberg HALion 7 is virtual sampling and sound-design software designed to deliver extensive virtual instruments, sampling, and programming functions, and audio effects for sound designers, musicians, producers, and composers in studios and live performance applications. It features over 35GB of content with 3700+ presets and 15 instruments, including engines for FM, wavetable, virtual analog, and granular synthesis. With more than 70 effects plus countless modulation and MIDI options, HALion 7 is equipped to handle anything. Its high-performance sample engine was designed specifically for large libraries.

It offers a multitimbral audio engine with 32 stereo outputs and 6-channel surround sound. The AudioWarp function comes in handy for shifting pitch and stretching time. Live sampling allows you to record and edit samples, then trigger them in a variety of ways. Use virtual analog, granular, and wavetable synthesis methods to produce a wide variety of patches. The FlexPhraser enables easy arpeggiation and pattern creation, and the Phrase Editor allows you to create your own. Add audio effects including reverb, delay, compression, vibrato, and more. HALion 7 supports AAX, Audio Units, and VST3 plug-in formats, works in standalone mode, and is compatible with macOS and Windows.

Note: This competitive crossgrade is available to owners of Omnisphere, KOMPLETE, Falcon, and KONTAKT. Proof of ownership required.

What`s New?

What`s New in Version 7

FM Zone: Developed together with Yamaha

• HALion 7 features the completely new FM Zone, developed in cooperation with Yamaha, the company that created some of the most iconic FM synthesizers in history. Freely combine up to eight operators, use them as carriers, or send them to feedback loops. Together with the powerful Algorithm Finder, a comprehensive and easy-to-use algorithm designer, you can create everything from classic DX7 tones to the most contemporary FM sounds. And if that is not enough, HALion now supports DX7 and TX81Z SYX file import in the FM Zone.

Spectacular: The new Spectral Zone

• The HALion spectral oscillator features in-house developed time-stretch and resynthesis algorithms, which sound amazing even at extreme settings. They not only allow you to change playback speed in real time without affecting the pitch, but you can now transform samples into completely new sounds. The real power comes with features like formant shift, spectral filter, purity, inharmonicity, and the ability to hold the previous spectrum functions if a sample`s start or end is reached. In addition, the new FFT view offers a precise and clear insight into the spectrum itself.

Modulation reimagined

• Shape, tweak, and animate your sounds more easily than ever with HALion`s new modulation concept. Click on a parameter in the zone, and instantly assign a new modulation to it with the new modulation rows. Jump directly to the modulation destination or source to make further edits with just one click. You can also assign modulation sources by drag and drop. Combined with the new visualization feature for any modulation signal, you have the perfect overview of what is happening.

New Shaper Envelope

• The User Envelope now has brush, pen, and eraser tools for intuitively drawing and customizing envelopes. You can choose from a great selection of predesigned shapes, or save custom shapes for future sessions. The new Shaper mode for envelopes allows you to cycle through shapes in synchronization with your host DAW`s tempo, giving you a brand-new variety of customized LFO.

FM Lab: A full-blown eight-operator FM synthesizer

• Enter the lab to find all the ingredients you need to design FM sounds from the ground up in an ultramodern, intuitive workspace. FM Lab features algorithms from the classic Yamaha DX7, FM-X, and TX81Z, 20 high-quality effects in a five-insert rack, many modulation options, and an arpeggiator, which allows you to create evolving sounds. Use different oscillator presets, or design complex algorithms in a fun and easy way. 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: An open-tuned guitar

• Ready for every story you want to tell, Tales is a beautifully captured guitar layered with additional acoustic and synthesized textures. The guitar strings were individually sampled as open notes and then tuned to a different pitch, giving each one a very pure and intimate sound. In addition to the open strings, Steinberg recorded articulations like muted notes and harmonics. Whether you´re writing ballads, looking for contemporary colors for underscoring, or want to uplift your next acoustic pop production, Tales delivers instant inspiration from every note you play.

More New Features

A fresh new look and feel: Updated interface and workflows

• Everything in HALion is now less complex, has more space, and is designed to get you into your creative flow and keep you there. Fewer clicks, improved menus, zones, and icons, optional auto-size for macro view, and innovative tools like the Shaper envelope, plus preconfigured screen sets for different use cases, all helping you to focus on the important things: making music and designing sounds.

New pitch-shift and time-stretch algorithm

• This new algorithm was developed from the ground up with musical content in mind. The result is a high-precision tool, which sounds very natural and beautifully accurate, even at extreme settings. You can use the algorithm in the spectral zone for creative experiments, or use it in the sample zone as a new warp mode to adjust samples without sounding artificial. Phase locking, transient detection, and channel correlation help restore the natural sound of stereo samples, even while working creatively with the sound.

Advanced wavetable synthesis

• Bringing a new dimension to wavetables, you can create your own with up to 1024 individual waves. If that is not enough, you can load multichannel files of up to 5.1 surround and work on the sum or individual channels to get all the details. The best part is that you can setup a new fully customizable Spectral Filter for each wave individually, while the automatic interpolation makes the fades between the previous and next waves sound extremely smooth.

New wavetable tools

• You can work with wavetables in an extremely dynamic way, thanks to the new Acceleration and Target Speed parameters, which are available for modulation. The new Hold function freezes the spectrum if the start or end of a wavetable is reached. Combined with additional new tools like sub-sample precision loop, Overlap Add, and the Spectrum Analyzer, you get maximum control and accuracy for wavetable editing. All these features make HALion 7 the perfect tool for composers, sound designers, and any real wavetable geek on the planet.

Decompose samples for unique sound design

• You can split every sample into its tonal and noise components directly in HALion, opening the door to a whole new world of sound design. Combine the tonal part of an electric piano with the attack of a guitar sample. Separate the noise part of a recording and send it through a unique effects chain, while keeping the tone as clean as possible. This is not only great for creating unique sounds, but also for building new kinds of libraries.

New X-LFO

• Enrich your sounds with spectacular movements. The new X-LFO can modulate two-dimensional parameters for wavetable, FM, granular, and the spectral zone. Create everything from wobbly basses to complex animated FM sounds.

Redesigned MediaBay: Easy access to everything for which you are looking

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