Published
Fri, Mar 26, 2010, 10:40
- The German developer have unveiled a new VST3 production workstation.
Steinburg will implement their forthcoming HALion 4 sample engine on a new VST workstation called HALion Sonic.
Boasting a 12GB Steinberg and Yamaha produced sample library and fully featured synthesis engine, the HALion Sonic VST3 workstation will likely look to muscle in on the multi-tasking plug-in market occupied by the likes of Native Instruments' Kontakt. The HALion Sonic will actually serve as the follow-up to Steinburg's Hypersonic plug-in, albeit in a largely beefed-up form.
Making up the principal architecture of this new offering will be four different modes covering a sizable array of production tools. First up is a "high-performance disk streaming engine" dedicated to recreations of acoustic instruments, while on the flip side of this, a "fully editable virtual analogue synthesis section" looks after matters of sound generation. Next up is a sliced-loop mode for all things beats and rhythm related, which will be backed by a drum mode for "studio-grade drum tracks."
Up to 16 instruments can be simultaneously loaded at any one time, and affected by a four-way effects rack which borrows from some of Cubase's higher end VSTs such as convolution reverb REVerence.
Steinburg will release HALion Sonic in the third quarter of 2010, at a suggested retail price of 249 Euros.