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With 32 stereo-output channels and six-channel Surround support, this is a monster.HALion Sonic SE 3 is a stripped-down version of HALion Sonic 3 with no loss in sound quality or affordability. The Advanced VST Workstation lets you load and play a variety of audio content: SE libraries included with Steinberg digital audio workstations, HALion VST audio toolkits, and custom libraries created with the HALion 6 sampler and HALion Sonic SE 3 sound creation system. HALion has powerful mixing and routing and comes with a long list of high-quality effects including VST Amp, the lush REVerence reverb and VintageCompressor. I cut out a single bass note, drop it into HALion and use Warp to end up with a playable instrument. I use this if I like the sound of a bass-sample loop, but want to create my own melody.

My second-favourite feature is the Warp feature. Warp is similar to Cubase’s VariAudio in that it will time stretch the sample to be of equal or variable length up and down the keyboard.

For instant glitch mayhem, use the ‘Create audio slices from hitpoints’ function in Cubase to slice up an audio file, drag into HALion, hit ‘Create sliced loop’ and those slices will be automatically and chromatically assigned up the keyboard. Great for making new vibes from vocals and organic drum patterns from ‘found’ sounds.

Studio Strings is great for pop arrangements and film scoring. Anima has two wavetable oscillators for cutting-edge synth sounds and warped mayhem Skylab uses granular synthesis with a huge preset list for deep electronic and cinematic sounds – some nasty textures here. The list goes on there’s a wealth of sounds at your fingertips, from analogue kitsch to world instruments, organs to drums.

Hot Brass ushers in a new era of funk and roots – this multi-sampled brass section sounds fat and tight. The lovely people at Steinberg have been very busy! Standout sounds are the Raven and Eagle Grand Pianos, for rich, natural and brilliant tones suited to classic to contemporary. HALion has a huge 30GB sound library of custom-recorded samples. And to manage your instruments, you can create and export sound libraries with Library Creator.

With live sampling, you can record internal and external sources directly into HALion and have your samples cut, mapped and ready to play, which is great with acoustic instruments. You can even trigger sounds from an external synth keyboard – HALion will listen to the MIDI and assign the incoming audio to those notes. In addition, for those who love to code, HALion has a script module for writing advanced behaviours for your sounds. Fans of the synth Spire will love this feature. I dragged in a hip-hop vocal-shout sample and with a couple of clicks, I had an awesome wavetable pad to play with – the detune function really makes this sound lush. The editing screen is intuitive and the sonic warping features are immense. Drag in a vocal audio clip and resynthesise the hell out of it – from crazy digitised mayhem to lush, evolving pads. HALion ushers in the next generation of wavetable synthesis.