![]() Straight away I must try to explain the terminology. Baby Bear – HALion SE which is free, comes with no libraries at all, but can still play programs, some of which you can get for free.It would probably sell better if people if it was called Motif. ![]() Mummy Bear – HALion Sonic which can play back programs from a rather large library of Yamaha sounds and synthesisers.If you’re a big tough electronic dude like me, you get this one. Daddy Bear – the full HALion, which makes new programs.Rather than provide various ‘zooms’ of interface (such as Alchemy) there are three different versions of the software: We will see it’s not just a sampler, but more akin to a workstation such as the Yamaha Motif. Today I want to look at the strangely capitalised HALion. No great innovation has taken place in a while and others are trying ideas that NI seems to have abandoned as they market pre-cooked ‘solutions’.ĭue to secret men’s business I have the opportunity to review some Steinberg products. Kontakt is a good sampler, but that’s about it. I hoped SFZ would be the one, but Alchemy went Apple-Embrace-Expand-Extinguish. In a way it’s good that there’s some kind of standard, but it’s not an open or versatile one. If you buy samples it’ll come as Kontakt for sure, occasionally with a dog bone for the Reason and Logic people. Here I need to test an assumption I made about Kontakt being the sampler of choice. That leads to a discussion about whether hardware is really worth it, (for which I have flame-proof pants from eBay). I have written about sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. Rewritten with updated information about version 7 down the page.
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