halion symphonic library instrument list

Halion symphonic library instrument list mod#
Halion symphonic library instrument list portable#
Halion symphonic library instrument list pro#
Halion symphonic library instrument list professional#

Just start with a clean slate on your first project, and keep adding on with each new project.

Halion symphonic library instrument list portable#

It’s also dongle free, so that helps out if you want to host this stuff on a portable rig! The libraries are small and lean in terms of system requirements, so you can even put them on a laptop or high end tablet and run with them! Garritan Libraries are quite inexpensive as well (given the sheer number of instruments they come with, plus the quality of the sounds is quite good if you bother to tweak them a bit in real time with expression maps).Ĭurrently, you’ll probably need to do some of your own expression map work with ANY libraries on the market (including HALion stuff).

Halion symphonic library instrument list professional#

There are indeed some more polished and professional brass and wind libraries out there if you’ve got the bank-roll for them (and a dedicated hard drive, as they tend to get very large and otherwise resource demanding), BUT, you’ll be very hard pressed to find one that covers so many families of instruments (even halicons, susaphones, euphonia, mellophones, flugal horns and cornets…in both solo and tutti configurations…and if you need marching battery percussion, and an even more robust set of symphonic percussion (school bands often call for more crazy stuff than one can shake a stick at, and COMB has a good bit of it), COMB has you well covered there as well!). I can recommend Garritan Concert and Marching Band, and Jazz and Big Band. If you’re still not getting closer to what you want after getting to know HALion better…until we get more Wind/Brass band kind of ‘Sampler Style Libraries’ for HALion…

Halion symphonic library instrument list pro#

I’ve gotten some great professional and polished sounding results with HALion SE and the Basic SE and Pro SE content packs over the years. It’s a general purpose ‘stage instrument’, or ‘composer workstation’ synth out of the box It’s highly capable of producing really nice sounds…it’s just important to think of it differently than a ‘sampler library’. When it comes to HALion SE, think it more like a Yamaha MOTIF Rompler (really nice Keyboard Workstations). Also keep in mind that a touch of the right effects (either in HALion itself, or on the Mixer Insert chain of Dorico) can go a LONG way to shaping up more realistic and pleasing solo brass and wood wind sounds.

Halion symphonic library instrument list mod#

Hint: For tutti work take advantage of some the more generic sound Patch Names in the SE Baisc and Pro content packs such as a general “Brass” patch, and keep an eye out for the ‘wheel’ patches which are going to use the Mod Wheel for dynamic control instead of velocity. Even the slate of GM sounds can be quite convincing (and in my opinion as good or better than Sibelius Sounds 7.x). Knowing where to look, and tapping into the effects are a BIG game changer. I can show you a few tricks (but probably not today) to start milking HALion for surprisingly NICE sounds. You get some options in the box with Dorico that are worth exploring but they’re not exactly obvious to anyone that hasn’t been using HALion over the years. If I get a chance I will publish my expression maps so long as IK is ok with this.If you want to do Wind and Brass Symphonic/Marching/Jazz bands, HALion has potential but it’s not in the most obvious places with currently existing HALion libraries. I am a string player so I know my articulations and how they apply to the instrument. Mezzoforte yes but what does 0.4 have to do with detache. What does detache 0.4 mean or detache 0.4 mf. The new strings sections can have upto 20 key switches!!!! Some of the strings key switches are explainable so are just plain odd. Unfortunately you need set up an expression map yourself. These are your key switches of expression map. You will see that at about c-2 I think it is red keys.

In your instrument you will see greyed out keys due to instruments low and high note restrictions. Philharmonik 2 only has one star to tick rather than the 5 for Cubase made VSTIs. It is recommended by Cubase that you star the vst instruments you use so you can find them easily.

If you select 14 violins including 1st Violin you will see a KS icon star. I suggest that you use the strings from version 2 instead of version 1 because the key switches are greater. Load an instrument into Cubase add some midi data into that track. Rather than expression maps think key switches.

Sorry to be a bit late to the table here but I think our colleague here is looking for expression maps that work with Cubase and IK Phil 2.