The size of each window and window section is individually adjustable. You can arrange the available editors in the window, structure the window sections using tabs, and configure several separate windows for your work. HALion provides flexible and highly customizable window management options. Here you will find detailed information about all the features and functions in the application. This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s HALion. Those synths and libraries are not the value drivers, IMVHO.The following list informs you about the most important improvements in HALion and provides links to the corresponding descriptions. Ableton Live Suite, Logic Pro and Reason are all better there.īuy Cubase for what it offers as a DAW. However, Cubase is not S-Tier when it comes the quality of the included Virtual Instruments and Sample Content. Same thing with Sample Content and Browsers. That's a perk of being developed by the same company. Most of the same benefits are mirrors, and most DAWs will integrate well with first party virtual instruments. Groove Agent SE 5 and Cubase is not fundamentally different than that of Impact XT and Studio One. This works in Cubase, as well as in DAWs like Studio One and Ableton Live (it's part of the VST3 Standard). There are some VST2.4 holdouts, but those are being quickly phased out.Īll of their stock plug-ins and virtual instruments are VST3, and load no differently than any other in a third party DAW.Īny VST3 can use the VSTPreset format to make their presets available in the browser. Steinberg uses VST3 for all of their plug-ins. I like the iZotope workflow, so I typically use those plug-ins for mixing, but I would not have an issue using the Cubase stock plug-ins. I'd probably still look into getting better Reverbs and Delays, but for most things the need for specific features or workflows dictates whether you will want to replace them. I do think the stock FX in Cubase are nice and serve their purpose. You can get Pigments on sale, and that basically replaces both Padshop 2 and Retrologue 2 in an instant, as it does both Analog and Granular Synthesis very well. I would not buy Cubase for the stock sounds. even the Kontakt Factory Library equivalents sound better. Some of those stock HALion sounds are sounding really dated. Novel Piano and Lo-Fi Piano.įrankly, I think Steinberg needs to move some of the content out of HALion and into the Cubase/Nuendo Products. Steinberg released two free libraries for HALion recently. There is some stuff, but a lot of it seems quite sound designer oriented, very cinematic, or it's another Accoustic/Electronic Piano library (4Pop, etc.). If you want access to a broader market, you probably want to invest in Kontakt. There is not much in terms of third party library development for HALion. However, none of that is standard with Cubase. There are also some World Instruments and World Percussion. The Strings are mediocre-at-best and the Brass is terrible. HALion 6 has Studio Strings and Hot Brass. Iconica is more expensive than EW HOOPUS or Komplete 13 Ultimate Collector's Edition (which includes the entire Symphony Series - Collection, and a lot more) during a sale. In addition to that, HALion Symphonic Orchestra terrible - only useful as a stock sound bank for Dorico, IMVHO, and doesn't ship with Cubase ($99, $50 during promotional periods). Cubase ships only with what you'd expect from a Yamaha workstation synth/keyboard 15+ years ago. I almost never use the content that comes with it.I'd probably delete that stuff if it weren't all just mixed together in the Library Manager, Lol.Groove Agent SE 5 does not Live Sample, and doesn't have Decompose.īackbone is very nice for Sound Design.Orchestral Stuff. Groove Agent, because it basically removes the need to use Maschine or MPC for Live Sampling in Cubase, while being well-integrated into the MediaBay, Arranger and MixConsole (workflow, basically). I also have Absolute 5, and the only pieces that seem worth it to me - in hindsight - are Groove Agent 5 and Backbone. The new keyboard library they added in Cubase 12 is quite good. Some of the bundled instruments are nice. Padshop and Retrologue are decent synths, but Granular kind of went through a phase where it exploded and now it's about as dime-a-dozen as Wavetable synths.Ī lot of the expansion content is heavily geared towards Euro Dance Music, though newer additions to the package are much better. If you have Komplete 13, you will probably not use much of it.
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