4/15/2024 0 Comments Free halion library![]() Don't really need much more than that to tell me I made the right decision ditching Cubase as my primary DAW. I recently saw that Nik from Noisia is now doing Bitwig stuff on his Patreon, and Noisia were Cubase users pretty much their entire musical career. Bitwig destroys it in almost every other way when using it for the creative process. I'm keeping Cubase around, but really only using it for a mixing environment or tasks that can benefit from ARA2 extensions. There's so much I do love about Cubase & Halion 6 is a great sampler, when it isnt crashing. Then if you factor in that Cubase's userbase is now more of a contemporary mixing engineer or film composer crowd, than electronic producers, and composers are less likely to really dig into a sampler's wide array of sound mangling possibilities, and are more likely to want a sampler for its 3rd party instrument libraries & tweak string presets, then clearly Kontakt has always been the better choice for the very people Steinberg are catering to. Anyone else have any experience using it in other DAWs besides Cubase or Bitwig? I'd be interest to know if it's just as poorly optimised. It is horribly optimised for use outside of Cubase it seems. I can run insane patches in Phaseplant with all kinds of parallel or multiband processing in snapheap or multipass on one track in bitwig with no dropouts, but loading a multisampled instrument in Halion 6 will often bring my CPU to it's knees. ![]() It's clearly streamlined more for use within Cubase, which limits it's potential userbase substantially. ![]() It is about the only plugin in my arsenal that frequently crashes in Bitwig, especially when using large multisampled libraries like Vibrant Rhodes. I own a Halion 6 license, as well as Groove Agent 5 & Backbone, and since I started using Bitwig, Halion 6 seems almost unusable. The lack lustre FX modulator was the final straw for me, after years requesting something more resembling Bitwig's modulation system or even Ableton's max4live extensions. I got excited when they announced new features for 12 included "modulation improvements", but the way it was implemented makes no sense at all. It's largely down to half baked implementation & Steinberg's "too little, too late" approach to modern workflows, that are leaving it way behind DAWs like Bitwig or Ableton for electronic music production & sound design workflows, that forced me to switch to Bitwig 6 months ago. This continued even after the introduction of Cubase sampler tracks, which were rendered kind of obsolete for anything more than basic chromatic sample playback for a couple of Cubase versions, until Steinberg introduced slicing & LFOs to it.īy the time scripting for making 3rd party tools in Halion 6 was introduced, it was just too little too late to kompete. This was obviously to try & force Halion purchases, but by this time Kontakt 5 had well & truly cornered the soft sampler market, particularly when it comes to 3rd party content being made for it. Really left a big void in it's feature set, up until Groove Agent One was updated to SE4, and even that is more an MPC style workflow sampler, which isnt as intuitive as most DAW samplers when using harmonic material sampled chromatically for most people. For years Cubase had no native sampling features. I think Steinberg kind of shot themselves in the foot in a few ways with this.
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