Highlights include up to eight grain streams and the ability to add independent random fluctuations to the grain position, duration, pitch and pan position. This is one seriously cool addition to HALion's sound- shaping arsenal that increases its reach into the future with the ability to turn abstract samples into fascinating ambient textures and post- modern pads. Organ is covered in Model C, but Grain gives HALion users a whole new way of manipulating samples, based on the granular synthesis engine found in Steinberg's Padshop product line. HALion 5's other big addition is a pair of new Zone types: Grain and Organ. These all make great additions to HALion's already impressive repertoire of effects.
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The new effects in HALion 5 comprise VST Amp, Wah Wah, Tape Saturator, Octaver, Ring Modulator and Envelope Shaper - all adapted from their Cubase counterparts - plus AutoFilter, Step Flanger and Vintage Ensemble.
It includes seven basic sounds: a choir, two clarinets, brass, bassoon, strings and our personal favourite, flute - famously used on The Beatles' Strawberry Fields. If you're a fan of really retro sounds, HALion 5 also includes the HALiotron instrument, which emulates that tape-based classic the Mellotron. That puts Trium at the top of Steinberg's virtual analogue synth tree - and yes, it definitely sounds good enough to compete with most of the other virtual analogue synths on the market. Trium also offers considerably more sub-oscillator waveforms, filter types and distortion modes than Retrologue, and both Trium and Voltage have their own arpeggiators, whereas Retrologue doesn't. Sonically and feature-wise, both resemble Steinberg's Retrologue, except that Trium boasts three oscillators and Voltage doesn't have oscillator unison, multimode filters or ring modulation. "Macro interfaces use the existing under-the-hood engine in a faster, more intuitive way than the previous modular setup offered" Again, these are just macro interfaces with which to edit or program synth patches using the existing under-the-hood engine in a faster, more intuitive way than the previous modular setup offered. Making the virtual analogue synthesis engine introduced in HALion 4 much easier to handle, HALion 5 adds the Voltage and Trium instruments. Still on a rhythmic tip, the new B-Box interface connects with the Beats sub-category and takes advantage of the new Drum Player MIDI module - essentially a step sequencer for crafting funky beats, not too dissimilar to Beat Designer, found in Steinberg's well-known Cubase DAW.
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The World Percussions set impressed us just as much, boasting 32 patches' worth of professional percussion loops and one-shots from around the world, with enough controls on the interface to enable tweaking of all essential timing- and tuning-related parameters. It would be nice to be able to call up a simple 24-note octave, for example. Like all the new instruments, this one certainly speeds up workflow, and its presets are amongst the best sounding we've ever heard from a sampler/ROMpler, although we can't help but wish there were more detailed scale and tuning options on board. The feature set is rounded out by the random preset generator, which guarantees inspiration won’t try up immediately after test-driving all the patches included."Presets are amongst the best sounding we've ever heard from a sampler/ROMpler" These all sound quite nice and certainly complement the sound sources on offer. This isn’t the sort of instrument you would intend for designing wild and crazy Neurofunk basses in, but it does make for a wonderful companion to your other weapons of choice.Ĭolors Free’s final section is the mastering section, which houses the various effects hosted in the instrument. This is done through the Easel panel, and users can blend together sampled analog synths, white noise, and other textures to make their own lush sound beds.
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There isn’t a ton on offer here, but for the cost of admission, it is to be expected.Ĭolors Free can be layered together with four different sound sources in total. That palette serves as an erstwhile preset browser. Launched alongside HALion 7 Sonic was Colors Free, an instrument filled to the brim with sampled synths, textures, and a bevy of features.Īt first blush, it presents a rather eccentric interface, with a number of squares comprising what developer Cinematique Instruments calls a palette. Earlier this week, we detailed the announcement and arrival of Steinberg’s HALion Sonic 7. The only thing better than a deal on an instrument is getting one for free. Steinberg releases Colors Free, a free Cinematique Instruments sound library for HALion Sonic 7.
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