Steinberg HALion 7 is virtual sampling and sound-design software designed to deliver extensive virtual instruments, sampling, and programming functions, and audio effects for sound designers, musicians, producers, and composers in studios and live performance applications. It features over 35GB of content with 3700+ presets and 15 instruments, including engines for FM, wavetable, virtual analog, and granular synthesis. With more than 70 effects plus countless modulation and MIDI options, HALion 7 is equipped to handle anything. Its high-performance sample engine was designed specifically for large libraries.

It offers a multitimbral audio engine with 32 stereo outputs and 6-channel surround sound. The AudioWarp function comes in handy for shifting pitch and stretching time. Live sampling allows you to record and edit samples, then trigger them in a variety of ways. Use virtual analog, granular, and wavetable synthesis methods to produce a wide variety of patches. The FlexPhraser enables easy arpeggiation and pattern creation, and the Phrase Editor allows you to create your own. Add audio effects including reverb, delay, compression, vibrato, and more. HALion 7 supports AAX, Audio Units, and VST3 plug-in formats, works in standalone mode, and is compatible with macOS and Windows.

35+ GB, 3700 Presets, and 15 Instruments    FM, Spectral, Wavetable, Virtual Analog    Granular Synthesis    High-Performance Sample Engine    70+ Effects + Modulation & MIDI Options    FlexPhraser, Macro Page Designer    Library Creator and HALion Scripting    MediaBay Sound Management System    AAX, Audio Units, VST2, and VST3    macOS, Windows

FM Zone: Developed together with Yamaha

• HALion 7 features the completely new FM Zone, developed in cooperation with Yamaha, the company that created some of the most iconic FM synthesizers in history. Freely combine up to eight operators, use them as carriers, or send them to feedback loops. Together with the powerful Algorithm Finder, a comprehensive and easy-to-use algorithm designer, you can create everything from classic DX7 tones to the most contemporary FM sounds. And if that is not enough, HALion now supports DX7 and TX81Z SYX file import in the FM Zone.

Spectacular: The new Spectral Zone

• The HALion spectral oscillator features in-house developed time-stretch and resynthesis algorithms, which sound amazing even at extreme settings. They not only allow you to change playback speed in real time without affecting the pitch, but you can now transform samples into completely new sounds. The real power comes with features like formant shift, spectral filter, purity, inharmonicity, and the ability to hold the previous spectrum functions if a sample’s start or end is reached. In addition, the new FFT view offers a precise and clear insight into the spectrum itself.

Modulation reimagined

• Shape, tweak, and animate your sounds more easily than ever with HALion’s new modulation concept. Click on a parameter in the zone, and instantly assign a new modulation to it with the new modulation rows. Jump directly to the modulation destination or source to make further edits with just one click. You can also assign modulation sources by drag and drop. Combined with the new visualization feature for any modulation signal, you have the perfect overview of what is happening.

New Shaper Envelope

• The User Envelope now has brush, pen, and eraser tools for intuitively drawing and customizing envelopes. You can choose from a great selection of predesigned shapes, or save custom shapes for future sessions. The new Shaper mode for envelopes allows you to cycle through shapes in synchronization with your host DAW’s tempo, giving you a brand-new variety of customized LFO.

FM Lab: A full-blown eight-operator FM synthesizer

• Enter the lab to find all the ingredients you need to design FM sounds from the ground up in an ultramodern, intuitive workspace. FM Lab features algorithms from the classic Yamaha DX7, FM-X, and TX81Z, 20 high-quality effects in a five-insert rack, many modulation options, and an arpeggiator, which allows you to create evolving sounds. Use different oscillator presets, or design complex algorithms in a fun and easy way. Worried about programming? No problem—FM Lab comes with hundreds of cutting-edge presets ranging from classic sounds with a new twist to some of the most contemporary and progressive FM sounds ever produced.

Tales: An open-tuned guitar

• Ready for every story you want to tell, Tales is a beautifully captured guitar layered with additional acoustic and synthesized textures. The guitar strings were individually sampled as open notes and then tuned to a different pitch, giving each one a very pure and intimate sound. In addition to the open strings, Steinberg recorded articulations like muted notes and harmonics. Whether you´re writing ballads, looking for contemporary colors for underscoring, or want to uplift your next acoustic pop production, Tales delivers instant inspiration from every note you play.

A fresh new look and feel: Updated interface and workflows

• Everything in HALion is now less complex, has more space, and is designed to get you into your creative flow and keep you there. Fewer clicks, improved menus, zones, and icons, optional auto-size for macro view, and innovative tools like the Shaper envelope, plus preconfigured screen sets for different use cases, all helping you to focus on the important things: making music and designing sounds.

New pitch-shift and time-stretch algorithm

• This new algorithm was developed from the ground up with musical content in mind. The result is a high-precision tool, which sounds very natural and beautifully accurate, even at extreme settings. You can use the algorithm in the spectral zone for creative experiments, or use it in the sample zone as a new warp mode to adjust samples without sounding artificial. Phase locking, transient detection, and channel correlation help restore the natural sound of stereo samples, even while working creatively with the sound.

Advanced wavetable synthesis

• Bringing a new dimension to wavetables, you can create your own with up to 1024 individual waves. If that is not enough, you can load multichannel files of up to 5.1 surround and work on the sum or individual channels to get all the details. The best part is that you can setup a new fully customizable Spectral Filter for each wave individually, while the automatic interpolation makes the fades between the previous and next waves sound extremely smooth.

New wavetable tools

• You can work with wavetables in an extremely dynamic way, thanks to the new Acceleration and Target Speed parameters, which are available for modulation. The new Hold function freezes the spectrum if the start or end of a wavetable is reached. Combined with additional new tools like sub-sample precision loop, Overlap Add, and the Spectrum Analyzer, you get maximum control and accuracy for wavetable editing. All these features make HALion 7 the perfect tool for composers, sound designers, and any real wavetable geek on the planet.

Decompose samples for unique sound design

• You can split every sample into its tonal and noise components directly in HALion, opening the door to a whole new world of sound design. Combine the tonal part of an electric piano with the attack of a guitar sample. Separate the noise part of a recording and send it through a unique effects chain, while keeping the tone as clean as possible. This is not only great for creating unique sounds, but also for building new kinds of libraries.

New X-LFO

• Enrich your sounds with spectacular movements. The new X-LFO can modulate two-dimensional parameters for wavetable, FM, granular, and the spectral zone. Create everything from wobbly basses to complex animated FM sounds.

Redesigned MediaBay: Easy access to everything for which you are looking

• Find the sounds for which you are looking faster than ever. The MediaBay in HALion has been completely refreshed, with a clearer, uncluttered structure, context-sensitive search, and an improved user experience. This makes browsing for the right samples, layers, programs, presets, and multis much more efficient.

HALion 7 features new effects including VST Bass Amp, Studio EQ 24, Bass Tape Ducking Delay, DI Driver, Bass Overdrive, Bass Octaver, Bass Chorus, Bass Envelope Filter, Bass Phaser, and Clipper.

Oscilloscope

• Visualize audio signals directly in HALion 7 with the Oscilloscope module. You can adjust the displayed time frame, and switch between the left and right channels or the summed signal. This is especially helpful for analyzing your audio, or for visualizing how modulation changes the signal.

Load new impulse responses and import your own

• Make room for all your creative ideas by loading your own impulse responses from recordings of halls, studios, or legendary hardware units into HALion, and use these in the REVerence reverb. We have also added several IRs from iconic chamber, spring and plate units like the EMT 240 Goldfolie, Lexicon 224, AKG BX5, and RE-501.

New tools for designing outstanding instruments

• The Macro Page Editor is packed with incredible new features like the spectral view in sample displays and many more tools to help you build extremely creative instruments. HALion now allows you to connect bitmaps and SVGs with external editors. You can load SVG resources directly in HALion and animate these using Lua expressions. With new appearance and color options, you can design controls faster and more flexibly. Combine all of this with the new vector graphic controls library, and you can be sure the instruments you design will look simply amazing.

Chord export

• Drag and drop MIDI chords to your favorite DAW from trigger pads.

Native Apple silicon support

• One of the fastest HALion experiences on Apple Macintosh, ever.

Steinberg Licensing

• Use HALion on different machines with new Steinberg Licensing—no need for a dongle.

New mixer

• The mixer has been refreshed with improved handling of effects.

Bipolar/unipolar switch

• Pitch and user envelopes allow you to switch polarity.

User icons

• Assign your own user icons to programs.

SVG import and color editing

• Create macro pages with animations or color switches based on SVGs.

Section and module presets

• Navigate through presets using the new previous/next preset buttons even in the chord pads.

Spectral view in the Sample Editor

• Switch from sample to spectral view for analyzing your samples.

Improved program tree

• There is now a text filter to search for elements and a prelisten section for samples.

Move ranges

• Move the sample or loop start and end markers together.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. can this product be used on glossy photo paper?

A: No, the Premier Imaging Eco Print Shield Protective Coating Sample Kit is designed for canvas prints.

Q: 2. Would official support for Windows 10 be possible in the near future?

A: Lynx Studio Technology currently supports AES16e users using Microsoft Windows 10.

Q: 3. Can the prompter be operated via keyboard keystrokes instead of a mouse or touchpad?

A: Yes, You can enter text and scroll using your keyboard when using the Ikan Prompter Pro 4.0 Software. Manual - Page 4 under "prompting" https://bit.ly/3v1kai3

Q: 4. How long is the included cable?

A: The cable included in the box with TourBox NEO Creative Software Controller is 59'' long.

Q: 5. Has anyone used this with an I pad?

A: The TourBox Upgraded NEO Creative Software Controller is not compatible with iOS; it is only compatible with Windows and macOS devices.

Q: 6. I would like to use it in pair glass, which items should I purchase with?

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Q: 7. The talent monitor does not match the computer monitor. How can that be achieved?

A: you can adjust your computer display setting to match the prompter monitor settings

Q: 8. HI Can this Micro Panel work with Davinci 19? Thanks Renzo M.

A: Yes, the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel with Resolve Studio Software is compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.

Q: 9. Hi, can you supply us with the power 220-240 range. i am from asia?

A: Thank you for your mail. The system will run on any voltage for 110vAC-260v AC. I hope that helps!

Q: 10. Does the package include 2 numbers of glasses and stand ? Does it include the glass holder (B&H # AUEG001 MFR # ESP-GLASS/001)?

A: Hi Pratik. The package is for one conference prompter only. It includes one monitor, one stand and base, one glass holder (which is B&H # AUEG001 MFR # ESP-GLASS/001), one piece of glass, software and cables.