Halion 4 and Cubase 5 (Close-Integration features) ?

muziksculp · Member Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 186

Hi,

I'm very excited about the upcoming Halion4 sampler !

I was wondering, if (Cubase 5 + Halion 4) will work in a very close-integration type fashion ? i.e. it would be possible to drag-n-drop regions from Cubase 5 into Halion to create sampled instruments ? and any other powerful features that will make it a Joy Very Happy

to create, and edit our custom sampled instruments using (Cubase 5 + Halion 4) ?

Maybe the Halion4 blog will be updated in the near future to provide us with more of these type of details. Also looking forward to Halion-Sonic !

Many Thanks to Steinberg's development team.
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steff3 · Member Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 362

Well, by the time HALion 4 is out there might not be any support for C5 anymore ...

If they do not get Mac programming right this time, they should maybe stay on PeeCee anyways .... (not working around the vnodes behaviour of OSX - 10 years after OSX got released !!!)

best

muziksculp · Member Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 186

I would also expect Halion4 and Cubase 6 to be 64-bit on Mac OSX-SL.

Please ... No more technical excuses, especially given the extra time of development Steinberg will take until they release Cubase 6 and Halion 4.
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Ivan McKinney · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:30 am Post subject:

No one on the PLANET should expect Halion 4 to take on the likes of KONTAKT or MachFive out of the box.

Job 1 is "Halion 4 is Cubase's own Sampler"

I would LOVE to see H4's supposed 64 channels be able to be set up as "Instrument Channels"

I'd like to see H4, in Cubase/Nuendo ONLY, be able to use "Hi-Def MIDI" 16 bits instead of "standard" MIDI's 8 Bits

Just as Steinberg "borrowed" Melodyne's idea for "Vari-Audio", they should do their version of KONTAKT's AET, to give dead/static samples LIFE!!

Convolution, Convolution, Convolution, "borrow" from Giga, their "Continous Piano" used "one sample layer" for each note, but used convolution

to realistically synthesize timbre changes in respect to dynamics.

Etc, Etc, Etc.................

Screw KONTAKT and MachFive!!! Lets give Halion 4 the power to do, as a Cubase-Nuendo/Halion 4 duo what NO OTHER DAW/Sample duo can TOUCH!!!

With THAT as a GOAL, Halion 4 will be LEGEND!!!!!
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Current Spec:
Cubase 4.5, AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ 2GB,
FX Teleport, 1 Slave PC
Future Spec:
Cubase 5.x, Win 7 32/64 Dual-Boot, AMD PhenomII 6-Core, 16 GB, SSD OS drives,
Raptor Data drives. FX Teleport, 1-2 Slave PC
Current VSTi's:
MiroSlav Philharmonic, SampleTank 2.5,
Garritan GPO, Vir2 EOP, Eastweast Symphonic Choirs, Voices of Passion.
Future VSTi's:
Halion 4, Kontakt 4 Player, Garritan GPO4 & Big
Band, Sample Modelled Instruments, AAS Suite.
Pianoteq, Vocaliod PRIMA....

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daslicht · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 20

I hope that Halion 4 will have a automatic Legato/Glide Modus so that you only have a portamento when playing legato.

Ivan McKinney · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:14 am Post subject:

Hey Steiny, are you listening?
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Current Spec:
Cubase 4.5, AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ 2GB,
FX Teleport, 1 Slave PC
Future Spec:
Cubase 5.x, Win 7 32/64 Dual-Boot, AMD PhenomII 6-Core, 16 GB, SSD OS drives,
Raptor Data drives. FX Teleport, 1-2 Slave PC
Current VSTi's:
MiroSlav Philharmonic, SampleTank 2.5,
Garritan GPO, Vir2 EOP, Eastweast Symphonic Choirs, Voices of Passion.
Future VSTi's:
Halion 4, Kontakt 4 Player, Garritan GPO4 & Big
Band, Sample Modelled Instruments, AAS Suite.
Pianoteq, Vocaliod PRIMA....

Truth is a Pathless Land
J. Kristhnamurti

daslicht · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 20

Please keep the Waldorf Filters !

Blackout · Member Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 341

a crappy Halion 4 is going to impact on Cubase and Steinbergs other products. An old featureless sampler that Steinberg tell the world is their "flagship" is going to make people think "if this is how far behind they are in sampler technology then i wander what i dont know about Cubase and how old-skool it is also". i think Steinberg are too embarrassed to release their Halion 4 effort. They dont want its release to expose the company as being behind everyone else with their products. Im sure they know they have missed the boat and let Kontact walk in through the door now
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daslicht · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 20

Halion Sonic looks not too bad imo, If they wouldallow loading samples I would prefer the interface over kontakts scrolling and keygroup madness.
A more intuitive than Kontakts rather technical GUI might change a thing.