HALION 3.5.593 UPDATE. May 20th 2009 The update available here is a full installer. It can be used on both Mac OS X and Windows to install HALion 3 for the first time.

Steinberg’s HALion Sonic 3 is a powerful all-in-one workstation containing nearly any sample you’d need for composing, plus synths, and much more. By Rob Mitchell, Nov. 2017 Steinberg is the innovative music software/hardware company that is behind many great products such as Nuendo, Wavelab Pro, Cubase, Groove Agent, Pad Shop Pro, and HALion. The Germany-based company has been around since 1984, and they have built a loyal following over the years. For this issue of SoundBytes Magazine, I will be taking a look at HALion Sonic 3. It’s Steinberg’s powerful multitimbral workstation which contains over 25 GB of sample content, more than 3,200 presets, virtual analog, wavetable and granular synthesis, plus a large amount of effects. HALion Sonic 3 uses the Soft e-Licenser copy protection which is installed along with the instrument, and uses an access code for downloading and activation.

On the PC, you’ll need 64-bit Windows 7 or higher, at least 4 gigabytes of RAM (8 is recommended), and a VST2, VST3 or AAX compatible host. On the Mac, you’ll need OS X 10.11 or higher, at least 4 gigabytes of RAM (8 is recommended), and a VST3, AAX or AU compatible host. It is also available in a standalone version. Halion Sonic 3 is a very full-featured piece of software, and more than just a “lite” version of Steinberg’s flagship instrument, HALion 6. So, what’s missing in HALion Sonic 3 that is present in Halion 6? The easy answer is that HALion 6 has everything needed to develop additional content – things like a sampler capability, a wavetable editor, the tools for developing hosted instruments with custom GUIs, and so forth. We plan to cover HALion 6 in the next issue of SoundBytes Magazine.

Getting Started After you are all squared away with the download and activation, you will be ready to load some sounds and take it for a spin. Along the top of the main display are the MIDI and audio settings, record/playback controls, tempo and time signature, CPU and disk usage meters, and more.

I will get to how you go about recording within the workstation (you could also trigger it with MIDI from your DAW), but first I wanted to cover a few other items. If you’re like me, you might want to hear some examples of how a new plugin sounds before you start creating your next masterpiece. To audition some of the programs in HALion Sonic 3, you just click the “Load” button. This will bring up the Load Dialog, a browser with columns of information for selecting by Category, Sub-Category, Style and Character. You are able to change the column’s type to what you’d like. For instance, you could change the column header from “Character” to “Genre”, or maybe you’d like it set to “Date Modified”.

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You can click on where it says “All Instrument Sets” to get a graphic display of the many included content sets. If you select one of those (say you pick “Model C”) then it will show all the presets that are in that sound set. After you’ve selected one of the many presets, you can click on the “Edit” tab to see the main controls. This is where the editing of the sound takes place for the preset. The controls that are displayed will differ with every sound set. This is one of HALion Sonic’s many strengths because there are just so many types from which to choose.

I took my time in browsing through many of the presets, and there is a high quality of sound within the huge 25 GB library. A large variety of instruments have been included: orchestral instruments, drums, guitar, bass, organs, pianos, brass, many ethnic types of instruments, chromatic percussion, vocals, woodwinds, and more. One thing you can’t do is edit the samples themselves. I don’t think that’s really an issue though, as there are just so many types of sampled instruments in the first place. Steinberg has already done that work for you, so you can get on with the production of music. If you are more interested in the importing, editing and manipulating of the audio, you may want to take a look at the full-blown HALion 6. Synthesis I wanted to mention something here about the synthesis, as it’s not only a great source for many sampled instruments, but it has a good deal of synth-related material as well.