Steinberg Halion 3

Even if it’s getting old, Halion 3 is a VST instrument plugin that i use in all of my audio productions, it contains many sample based instruments programs, plus it’s a great sampler…

Why still using Halion 3 ?

I made an upgrade to Cubase 10 Elements including HALion Sonic SE 3 and Groove Agent SE 5 basic sets with over 185 instrument sounds, i really like the idea but compared to my good old Halion 3, it’s like night and day.

Features:

64 Bit Sample based VST instruments and loops player
Complete sampling section with multi layer, loop and filtering options
Individual outputs
Import/Export of many sample formats
VST Instrument and standalone version

What i like:

32/64 Bit operation
Can be used as a VST plugin or as a standalone version
Still working with recent host applications like Steinberg Cubase 10 as an example
The large amount and variety of instrument programs and loops
Can load older programs from Halion 2
The browser
Can load 128 programs per bank
16 MIDI channels
The individual outputs and the basic but useful effect inserts
The sampler can load many sample formats like .wav, .aiff, REX files and AKAI programs in different layers and can be edited in the looper and the filter section

What i Don’t like: