Steinberg Halion Sonic 3 Premier VST Workstation

Steinberg's premier VST workstation is a uniquely creative instrument that offers a plethora of synthesized and acoustic instruments within one compact, easy-to-use interface. Designed for studio musicians, composers and live performers alike, HALion Sonic 3 includes an extensive library and a full synth engine with over 3,200 patches and a range of features that offer fast and flexible control.

Studio and stage

With its ease-of-use, absolute stability and pristine audio quality HALion Sonic has been designed to excel in the studio as well as on stage. HALion Sonic is a true virtual workstation with 16 instrument slots, each loaded with presets that can be routed to the 16 stereo outs and saved as Multi presets for your next performance. Create keyboard splits and switch to the dedicated player view for live performances. The included standalone version lets you launch HALion Sonic outside your DAW and use it as a quick access scratch pad; the metronome and record functions certainly will have you ready when inspiration strikes.

Performance advantage

With its reliability and dazzling audio quality, HALion Sonic not only meets the requirements of professionals today, but also provides the best-sounding audio engine that was ever developed by Steinberg. Featuring multi-core support, the efficiency provided by sample compression technology and the RAM Save Mode, HALion Sonic is the new creative powerhouse at the heart of your production.

Key Features

• Easy-to-use yet powerful premier music production workstation for synthesized sounds and breathtaking recreation of acoustic instruments
• Outstanding library, including over 3,200 instrument sounds created by top sound experts at Steinberg and Yamaha
• Powerful multi-timbral audio engine with disk-streaming sample playback and high-end virtual analog, granular and wavetable synthesis
• Wide range of high-end audio effects, including REVerence convolution reverb, VST Amp simulation and many more
• FlexPhraser for dynamically driving beats, arpeggios and complex tonal phrases
• Unique morphing filters, seamlessly blend between up to 4 out of 24 filter types
• MediaBay sound management system for immediate access to the libraries
• Stage-optimized workflows with dedicated player view, rapid building of keyboard splits or layers, and switching of entire multi-setups with a single command
• Full VST Expression 2 support for smart articulation editing in Cubase
• Cross-platform: Windows (VST 3, VST 2, AAX) and macOS (VST 3, AU, AAX) plug-in and standalone support

Details

Supported Platforms: Windows 8.x, Windows 10, OS X 10.11 & macOS 10.12

Library content size: > 40 GB uncompressed

Number of presets: > 3,200

Number of MIDI Channels: 16

Real-time audio FX: 65

Stereo output channels: 16

System requirements

Mac OS X
- OS X 10.11/macOS 10.12
- VST 3, AAX or AU compatible host application for using as plug-in

Windows
- 64-bit Windows 7*/8.x/10
- VST 2, VST 3 or AAX compatible host application for using as plug-in

Mac OS X and Windows
- 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor (Intel i5 or faster recommended)
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 30 GB free HD space (90 GB required during installation)
- 1366 x 768 display resolution (1920 x 1080 recommended)
- OS compatible audio hardware**
- Internet connection required for activation, account setup and personal/product registration. Additional downloads are required for the installation.

*Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0 and Platform Update for Windows 7
**ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low-latency performance