Steinberger VSTi HALion Sonic User's Manual

What´s New in HALion Sonic 1.5

December 2010

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

New features

64-bit support for MAC OS X

• HALion Sonic 1.5 is available as a native 64-bit plug-in and
should work in any VST 2.4, VST 3 or VST 3.5 compatible
native 64-bit host, such as Cubase 6. The dramatically
enhanced memory address space gives new possibilities
for really large setups.

New set of brass and reed programs

• With version 1.5, HALion Sonic´s sample library has been
expanded with 1.2 GB of new brass and reed programs
including Baritone Sax, Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Soprano Sax,
Clarinet, Brass Section, Flugelhorn, Trombone, Trumpet
and Muted Trumpet.

• Multi Expression Instruments and Single Layer Programs
include expressions like straight, vibrato, falls, doits, scoops
and shakes.

General MIDI support with new GM instrument set

• HALion Sonic 1.5 includes a dedicated new GM instrument
set providing General MIDI support including MIDI program
change and preloaded chorus and reverb effect.

FlexPhraser variations

• Each FlexPhraser features up to eight variations that allows
you to set up different phrases or variations of phrases or
loops.

• Variations can be switched using the trigger pads.

Global Latch (Hold) Reset via a user-definable MIDI CC

• All FlexPhrases that are in "Hold" mode can be reset via
user-definable MIDI CC.

Four new Distortion modes for the filter

• The following new distortion modes have been added to the
filter type section: Hard Clipping, Bit Reduction, Sample
Rate Reduction and Sample Rate Reduction Key Follow.

HALion 3 legacy effects library included

• In addition to the standard effects, HALion Sonic 1.5
includes no less than 28 additional legacy effects from
HALion 3.

New distortion insert FX

• HAlion Sonic 1.5 provides a new distortion insert effect
allowing to combine Tube Drive, Hard Clip, Bit Reduction
and Sample Rate Reduction.

Sub presets for the pad section

• Trigger note settings and chord snapshots can be saved
and loaded as presets.

Global trigger notes for trigger pads section

• Trigger note settings can be saved as default setting to be
used globally to reflect a specific hardware environment.
Loading programs or multi programs will not change
assigned trigger notes.

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