HALion is the most comprehensive virtual sampling and sound design system available today and excels the present creative process for producers and sound designers in all areas.

It covers the complete creative workflow from recording and sample editing to programming advanced synthesis and modulation setups. With HALion, create customized user interfaces and export ready-to-release instrument libraries with every step streamlined to the greatest extent.

The powerful set of oscillators for seamless sample playback as well as the next-generation synthesis make HALion a versatile creative tool in simply every situation. Its broad library includes thousands of high-class and deep-sampled instruments and cutting-edge synthesizer sounds for all kinds of musical genres.

Key Features
•State-of-the-art sampler and sound creation system tailored to the demands of professionals
•Advanced library creation tools including Macro Page Designer, drag-and-drop Library Creator and HALion scripting
•Powerful multi-timbral audio engine with disk-streaming sample playback, tone-wheel organ simulator and high-end virtual analog, granular and wavetable synthesis
•AudioWarp for cutting-edge time-stretching and pitch-shifting
•FlexPhraser module drives beats, arpeggios and complex tonal phrases
•Outstanding library including over 3,400 synthesized sounds and breathtakingly authentic acoustic instruments
•Flexible user interface with multi-monitor support allowing you to customize and save your own windows and screen sets
•Wide range of high-end audio effects, including REVerence convolution reverb, VST Amp simulation and many more
•Up to 192 kHz, 32 stereo outputs and 6-channel surround support
•Cross-platform compatibility: Windows (VST 3, VST 2, AAX) and macOS (VST 3, AU, AAX) plug-in and standalone support


HALion 6.4.20

HAL-4512 Feature Macro Page Designer: Added decor controls which allow to draw vector-based rectangles. Decors can be customized with rounded corners (Radius), line width and color and fill style (No, Solid, Linear Gradient, Redial Gradient)
HAL-4357 Sample Export Added “Keep MediaBay Tags” option in Export Sample dialog. When active MediaBay tags on samples are not removed during export.
HAL-4464

General Fixed issue where automated script parameters were not correctly processed for “Render in Place” and “Audio Mixdown”
HALLY-8129

General Fixed issue where Bar & Beats could not be tagged in the MediaBay
HALLY-8176 General Fixed possible hanging notes when selecting or moving MIDI notes in Cubase key editor
HALLY-8220

General General: Fixed possible crash when changing the trigger mode for played notes
HALLY-8470

General Fixed unwanted undo operations in host, when trying to undo HALion changes
HALLY-8501

General Fixed broken switching of expressions via mouse-click in expression list
HALLY-8513

OSX Fixed broken CPU Max setting, which was not working in prefetch-mode
HALLY-8529

OSX Fixed possible load issue, when loading presets with large number of samples
HALLY-4591

Macro Page Designer

Fixed issue with 2D and 3D wavetable displays not working when moved into a template
HALLY-8140

Macro Page Designer

Fixed word wraps issues for certain fonts
HALLY-8417

Macro Page Designer

Fixed missing scroll bar and clear message button in message output
HALLY-8450

Macro Page Designer

Fixed wrong state of "checkable" option of menu controls after loading

HALLY-8489

Macro Page Designer

Fixed issue where wavetable displays lost their connection with changing group scopes
HALLY-8499 Macro Page Designer Fixed issue where level meters where displayed on hidden disable views
HALLY-2371 HALion Sonic Fixed slot selection after loading projects
HALLY-8004 HALion Sonic Fixed problem, where the FlexPhraser was internally deactivated after loading certain presets

HALion 6.4.10

Improvements macOS Compatible with macOS Big Sur on Intel Systems
HAL-4297

Macro Page Editor The Step Modulator control now allows alternatively to display lines with an adjustable height instead of bars.
HAL-4296

Macro Page Editor Subpreset selectors can now provide previous and next subpreset switches.
HAL-4275 Scripting Voice groups can now be set via script.
HAL-4153

HiDPI HALion, HALion Sonic and HALion Sonic SE now supports Windows display scaling factors in 25% steps.
HAL-8298

General Fixed possible crash when loading HALion into Cubase.
HALLY-7575

General Made it possible to edit the script of the Mono Step Modulator
HALLY-7572

General Removed possibility to assign the Zone Type parameter to a Quick Control
HALLY-8441

HiDPI Macro page slider knobs didn't use HiDPI resources with sliders set to "Scalable"
HALLY-7948

Macro Page Designer

Fixed wrong initial alignment of elements in browser of the macro page designer
HALLY-8246

Macro Page Designer

It's no longer possible to cross top / bottom or left / right margins for bitmap resources
HALLY-8102

Macro Page Designer

Enabled the edit command for empty macro page templates
HALLY-8137

Macro Page Designer

Fixed letter case changes that occurred when dropping images onto the macro page designer
HALLY-8425

Sample Import

Added new $ (Velocity) option when using a name pattern, to allow zones to be mapped on a single velocity only.
HALLY-8340 Scripting Fixed crash when opening a message box

HALLY-8212

Scripting

Fixed function waitBeat () not reacting on tempo changes while waiting
HALLY-7917

Scripting

Fixed issue where incorrect parameter values ​​were produced

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