Halion 7 Tutorial #1 - Our First Look at Halion 7
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
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About me:
My name is Anthony Chisnall. I'm a musician & songwriter.
My channel is these things:
1. A place to share my songs - via various 'Back on Track' video series - in which you'll see each song idea evolve step-by-step, with me (hopefully!) improving my song-writing skills as we go.
2. An outlet for me to discuss all things musical - including technical break-downs of software and tools that I use, as well as more wide-ranging discussions of topics that interest me.
I play the guitar (electric, acoustic, and bass), and record all of my own synth-based sounds myself too, but I can't sing very well (huge understatement!), and so my wife, Pauline, who has a lovely singing voice, has come to my rescue. You'll hear her on all of my songs.
All of my music is written in Steinberg's Cubase.
I try very hard to make my videos PRACTICAL and no-nonsense - if I don't use a feature, I'm not going to waste your time trying to sound like an expert on it! This is the stuff I use day-to-day, so I think that's also what you'd like to hear me talking about.
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I don't think you actually realise how brilliant you are at this. I've just bought Halion 7 and I'm looking forward to watching this series. Thanks Antony.
I second this. I also just bought H7, and there's no way I could come to grips with this plugin so quickly without Anthony's tutorials.
Thank you, I appreciate you saying so! Hope you enjoy the series :)
@@OneManAndHisSongs I'm really enjoying the series thank you.
I'm hoping to find an in depth FM Lab piece on Importing .syx files and populating the presets / browser with the contents. I have a huge set (that I'm sure we've all downloaded from the web) I'd like to integrate into FM Lab :)
Anthony your tutorials are an ADDED VALUE for the software makers, companies should pay you for your enormous contribution to their software. Your explanations are so very well detailed i didn't look at the manual anymore!!!
That's very kind of you to say, thank you :)
What a brilliant teacher. I was not sure about buying Halion as it looked very complicated and I was not sure my 77 year old brain would get to grips with it. However, your excellent calm, detailed explanation and general teaching skills have made me realise that I will enjoy learning and using Halion and produce my own sounds for new compositions. Thanks very much, Anthony.
Wow, that's very kind of you to say, thanks very much!
Hello Anthony, I am discovering Halion for the first time. Your tutorials on Halion 7 are a great help to me. Thank you for your work. Your videos are amazing.
That's great to hear, thank you for the feedback :)
Thank you Anthony, Halion has always been somewhat overwhelming to me - looking forward learning from you.
Hope you enjoy the series - thanks for the feedback :)
I've just made the leap into Halion after many years on some of the other big names, and someone recommended your channel - because Halion is such a beast. Excellent overview! I'll definitely be watching all your videos - this is such a great resource, thank you!
That's very kind of you to say, thanks :)
I’ve worked with this for years and never understood why some instruments had a macro and some didn’t! That one bit of information alone made it all worth while. I learned more in this one video than everything else I’ve seen! Looking forward to more. Thank you.
Great stuff! Thanks for the feedback, and I really hope you enjoy the series :)
Finally!
I follow many people on CZcams in order to learn about sequencers, samplers, synths, etc.
I have been training on desktop software (mainly MS Office) for 38 years.
You are cleanly the best instructor I have found so far. And because of your simple, logical (pedagogical) explanations, I decided to purchase the full version of Halion 7.
Wow! Thank you so much!
You have a new pupil. 🙂
That's awesome! Thanks for the feedback, I'm very grateful :)
This is great you're covering Halion 7. Your presentation style is paced just right. thanks.
That's great to hear, thanks for your feedback and support :)
Another great video and also a BIG THANKS because I found out through watching this, that I had not installed all the presets.
You're very welcome, thanks for the feedback!
A huge thanks for you sir! It all started with me wanted to sample my drum machine to free up some inputs on my AD converter and to keep the kits virtual in cubase. First I looked at Groove Agent but was sort of dissapointed over it could only handle 24bit audio. So after remembering having a Halion 3 license that was able to upgrade to 7 I went for that option to be able to sample in 32bit float. And you can imagen how suprised I was from having years of break from Halion 3 and entering 7. It's like an own audio workstation and not just a VST anymore :D
I'm glad you found this useful, thanks for the feedback :)
I have just got Halion after wanting it for a while. It is great and very similar, at least on the surface, to Falcon, which i already have. Not that this is a bad thing. Got it for £106 while on sale and with the Falcon crossgrade, it would have been rude not to. Im loving it so far. Thanks for these tutorials, they will be invaluable to me.
Awesome, hope you enjoy the series :)
@@OneManAndHisSongs thanks brother, I'm sure im going to learn tons.
I really appreciate and enjoy your presentations. Very knowledgeable and organized on complex topics. Keep going and thanks!
Much appreciated, thanks very much for the kind feedback!
Unbelievable that you already have a v7 tutorial series already! I have been "using" Halion for several years but just by selecting presets and never had a look at the interface and all options. These tutorial really give insight in all the possibilities of HALion. Great.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated :)
Awesome Anthony! I was hoping you would do this series
Settle yourself in ;)
Halion is a really powerful and fast way to make layered sounds, and I find that starting from presets and altering their modulation, filtering, layers and internal program tree structures, is incredibly powerful. The only other synths that come close to this one are MSoundFactory (which is not very fun to use, frankly) and Falcon (which is almost as powerful, and arguably better UI, but less powerful). I would also like to give Steinberg credit for building up an incredibly vast set of presets and content for Halion.
Thanks for the feedback. yes, I agree, Halion is truly vast, and most of the sounds are readily usable and rich. I'm enjoying making this deep-dive series very much!
This is amazing! Thank you. Halion is currently on sale, and I'm tempted. The 7.1 update looks fantastic!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the kind feedback :)
Same here, and since I have Komplete Standard I think I am eligible for the competitive crossgrade, which is also on sale. Very tempting. Thank god I have until the end of July to make the decision.
Thank you for this series, i've been using Halion for a while but only as a preset loader , now i can understand it beter ; this thing is deeep 😅
Glad to help, thanks for the feedback!
I've been waiting for this series ;) Thank you so much ! Great work as always
Really hope you enjoy it, thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for this great video. I am looking at Halion 7 and your Halion 6 series (excellent by the way ) has really helped me to understand what's going on. This new series is very welcome and I'd like to say thanks for the brilliant work you do.
That's very kind of you to say, thank you!
Such a great teacher! Thanks
You're very welcome!
Thank you! I've been waiting for this series.
Hope you enjoy it! Thanks too for your kind support :)
Always enjoy your cubase and arturia tutorials. Looking forward to seeing more of this series.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm looking forward to making it!
Excellent intro to Halion7! Thanks a lot. Looking forward to the next parts! :)
Much appreciated - I hope you enjoy the series :)
Anthony, thank you, this is great - I currently can't afford Halion 7 but I'm gonna continue watching your series in the hope of picking up some tips about Halion 6. I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be, even in the basics of this monster!! Thanks again 🙂
Update - maybe I can afford the upgrade from Halion 6.. I notice it's about £200 cheaper than full price.. but I may still have to wait 😞
You should be fine for a while - there are a couple of new synth types (FM and spectral), and some new editing features, but they look and feel quite similar.
Great Video's about Halion 7. Thanks !!
Glad you like them, thanks for the feedback!
SO helpful, many thanks
You're welcome!
I loaded it and can start it as a stand-alone but cannot pick it up on studio one
Great Content, but that high Frequency noise is impossible to listen to I had to stop after 4 minutes, sorry
That'll be my old ears! Thanks for alerting me to the issue, I'll add a LPF to my mic input for the future.
Anyone?? Can u update HAlion till 7 and still remain in Cubase 8 ?
Hi Anthony, I have watched lots of your videos and they are very useful in understanding lots of things!!! Just a quick question: I have bought, registered, activated and downloaded Halion 7. Why then when I try to load Halion 7, I only get the option to load Halion SE3. I load it in however and then the instrument name in top left is Halion Sonic 7, not Halion 7 as in your video? I still have access to all the Halion 7 instruments such as FM lab etc. However the 'load', 'programme', 'media bay' &' browser' don't show up as in your video?These are the options above the 'factory' and 'user' on the top right. (I was trying to go through the steps in this video, I loaded 3 oscillator lead OK but cant access the prg tree) Not sure you can answer this one TBH as it may be something to do with my system specifically. I have downloaded Halion 7 more than once as I thought that may help, but no joy! Thanks
Are you running it inside Cubase? If so, have a look in your Studio\VST Plugin Manager\Instruments tab to make sure it's visible. Another place to look is in the Steinberg Library Manager to confirm that it's properly installed
@@OneManAndHisSongs Hi, ahhh yes I added it in the plug in manager to the Steinberg column in Cubase and its showing up now. There is no sign of it in the library manager, not even under the Halion tab as perhaps would have been expected. All that shows up here are the Halion plug ins. However that's ok as I can access it in Cubase now I'll be able to follow the steps you go through in this video now. Thanks so much.
Your tutorials are great, and in this one you show the power of Halion 7.
However, I find it hard to believe that in order to use a piano sound, or a bass, or a saxophone, I have to study every single detail of all the things you can do with every sound.
I am 12 minutes into the video, and I have no idea where to look for an instrument.
Would it be too much to ask for a dumbed down version, so that I can use and instrument as it comes, prepackaged, and later one, learn to do all the possible wonders to each sound?
That's a perfectly reasonable request. I must admit it hadn't occurred to me (inexplicably) to make a single-serving, basic introduction video for Halion, and I certainly should. I'll add it to my to-do list.
Hello, in the DRUMKIT area. in Halion 6 many drumkits cannot be modified, when you open the mapping page the samples are not visible, why? Furthermore, it is possible to access the factory-proprietary sample libraries in order to create a customizable mapping. I hope that with Halion 7 we can do it. Thank you
It depends upon the Macro. Many Halion presets are "black-boxed", meaning that some or all of their sound make-up is hidden. That's a design decision that lies with the preset/macro designers. If you wanted to created a sample library from "hidden" Halion content, you can always record the notes in Cubase then render them (freezing works too). That will create raw audio in your project folder over which you have complete control, but obviously at that point you're not really inside Halion at all.
Wow, the most powerful? I know you're a master of Omnisphere, so I'm paying attention now. I do have Falcon as well, and it does look a bit similar to Halion. But I find that with all that power their UI can be intimidating as hell, which is why I've gelled so much with Omnisphere, as it's powerful, but compared with Halion and Falcon, seems like a simple synth! :-)
Love your work, by the way!
To be honest, I think Halion + Omnisphere is the perfect package. Omnisphere is more accessible and intuitive, so for instantly great sounds it wins, whereas Halion is the better get-your-hands-dirty nerd fantasy :) I like doing both of those things ;)
@@OneManAndHisSongs haha! Yes, you do!
Don't forget UVI Falcon.👇
Very good, Anthony. Looking forward to this tutorial. Still I wish you'd started with the layout. I want to follow you - step by step - but when I don't know where to find where you are it's not easy. But I suppose the layout is an item soon🙂
Yeah, that'll be episode 2. It was a Catch-22 decision - if I'd started with the Layout video and not given a general introduction to the plugin, I think it would have lacked any context. I just wanted to give a really high level "welcome" to the series as a whole, and next episode we'll get specific :)
@@OneManAndHisSongs 😉👍🏽
Great content thank you🙏🏻
My pleasure, thanks for the feedback!
Hi Anthony, I now don't have showing in Halion Sonic 7 any Halion sounds all I have is the All showing a couple of programs / a few sounds but none of the Halion sounds I have a screenshot but don't know how to add to this I have probably clocked on something but I can find what hope you can help. cheers Nick
email me: anthony@onemanandhissongs.com and I'll have a look
My man right on time. I’m having a hard time working with the fm synth
That's one of the more advanced topics, but we'll get there eventually!. In the meantime, you might find my series on Arturia's DX-7 emulation interesting - I cover most of the principles of the FM there. czcams.com/play/PL3P42Av427hyPQ1ctVl4bjwlFthkaLhSm.html
@@OneManAndHisSongs man you don’t now how valuable you are bro. Much thanks frfr 💪🏿
Can you use a Halion Sonic 7 with a Tascam DP Portastudio Thank you.
I don't know that kit at all, so wouldn't like to speak out of place, sorry. Halion 7 (including Sonic) are VST plugins that are capable of running in standalone mode, so they can connect to any hardware capable of communicating with them.
Very informative, thank you for doing this. Im learning how to make my own sample libraries. But where to store the samples is very complicated. I did it in a project. Then I saved the program and deleted the project. So then it won't work cause the samples where stored in that project. I can't wrap my head around the sample logistics. Such as making a folder for all my libraries, or make a multi preset that also contains the samples, but where are they? I cannot find it in the manual and also not here on youtube. Is there somewhere a proper explanation of it, and if not are you open to make one?
That sounds like a good topic for a video. I'll add it to my suggestions list. Sorry I can't guarantee when it'll get made, but I do work pretty methodically through it, so please be patient!
@@OneManAndHisSongs thank you!
Can i make sound/voices to yamah keyboard like a5000 or korg pa5x
Thank You
You're welcome :)
Great, and the size of the Macro interface doesnt scale? 😕
Nope, it doesn't
@@OneManAndHisSongs 😒 thx
Great video, only problem , there's so much infos it's is hard to see everything even if I use a good quality
monitor. Would be nice if you could zoom in on the subject or have less windows.........
Thanks for the feedback, I'm sorry it's too small for you. I did consider dropping my resolution from 1440p to 1080p (effectively zooming in) but in testing it just wasn't practical to show everything I needed to without huge logistical difficulties. Sadly you can't enlarge Steinberg interfaces in the way that other plugins can :(
Please can you help I’ve been following your channel a long time an a huge thanks for covering everything I’m on a Mac I had halion7 as a trial I bought it through the store so the old trial still shows but that’s not the issue on I use to be able to trigger halion 6 through the browser halion sonic does it shows to connect to it but halion 7 just shows 4 ports a b c and d but it won’t connect I deleted it I trashed all the prefs I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong do you know why
I've not had that particular issue so it's very difficult to imagine what might be causing it. Have you verified that the licence is properly activated? With Halion 7 Steinberg moved to a software licence instead of dongle - that's the only thing I can think of. You could always raise a support ticket with Steinberg. They'll ask you for logs and hopefully be able to tell you what the problem is.
@@OneManAndHisSongs yes it’s all activated it plays correctly but the media browser whic you can play MIDI files plays halion sonic but halion it jut shows ports a b c d but it doesn’t trigger anything I can drag a MIDI file directly on To the halion track and it plays I know halion 7 is a big jump from 6 I did not know if there is any MIDI settings that might not be turned on halion 6 never showed ports
I tried the demo for a bit , is there an easy way to export a wavetable including phase , pitch and spectral processing ?
It would be nice if there was an easy way to render the zones output for processing in other zones ... lots of possibility's .
In short, no to the wavetable question: the wavetable itself CAN be exported, but that's it. The second question is partially do-able, by routing the output to an audio track and recording it in real-time, then importing the resulting sample.
@@OneManAndHisSongs
So it can only be done manually by soloing each wave and resampling it into another zone ?
Does soloing a wave in wave table maintains the spectral filter on it ? Or does it work only when scrubbing thru the table ?
I'm a native English speaker and I've been recording music for 24 years and this video may as well have been in Japanese.
Am I supposed to feel way in over my head when you start talking about oscillators and trees? Does everything start to make sense later in the series?
I assume many other people are like me, and don't find it useful to be given a verbal description of the software with jargon.
I think a much more effective technique is to start making a song and say out loud step by step why you are clicking each thing you are clicking. Tell us about features and functions as they come up organically, as needed. Am I supposed to remember where the one type of oscillator is and what it does when it comes up later in the video? I still don't know what that is
Halion 7 is a powerful music workstation, so I've made some assumptions about such things. I'm sorry my approach isn't useful to you.
Reminds me a lot of UVI Falcon.
what do you mean : not to be confused with the one hosted in Cubase
Sorry, I can't remember the context - what was I discussing at the time?
Nice video, thanks! It looks pretty similar to the UVI Falcon from afar. Would you say that one can compare these two instruments?
I use both. I own Absolute and I have a UVI subscription, and I can say this much. halion 7 is almost Flacon 2 indeed. On the actual synth side of stuff, it's very near the same indeed. However the UVI soundbanks are monstrous and there's nothing like them. Omi sphere wishes it was like UVi's soundbanks. But I find Halion gets down. There's this KORG like quality, so you can really.jam with it. In which case, it's almost more like Phase plant, but with really strange and fun experimental sounds. However, the horns that came with Absolute are Amazing!!!
@@buckycore Thanks a lot for the elaborate answer :)
@@rumblechannel6343 you're welcome. I only purchased Absolute 6 over Falcon, is that Absolute is a better deal for what you get with it. Even though Falcon and Halion 7 are the same price, you are still getting way more content packs plus Grove Agent 5 and all it's content packs at a decent price. Where as I think it's better to just do the UVI subscription because if I had to purchase what I normally use in Flacon, that would.almost be 1500-2000 dollars. I'd rather just use that for a new computer
Do you find yourself using Halion more than Omnisphere
Pretty much 50/50 these days. I used to favour Omnisphere, since it's easier to get to grips with, but the more I use Halion the more I appreciate its power.
@@OneManAndHisSongs Would you say this is worth picking up even if I already own Omnisphere? I love Omnisphere's sound design possibilities but Halion looks like it has more advanced sample manipulation. The fact you use them 50/50 suggests that they compliment each other nicely and that it could be worthwhile to own both.
Thx for this superb tutorial series. I have two questions: 1. Having Cubase artist, what from Halion do Iget in the package? Is there a description of all the content? Is Tales part of the package? And 2.) How do Cubase and Halion interact. Here is a vido from e about the problem: czcams.com/video/m7oTko1aEAw/video.html
Different versions of Cubase come with different bundles, so I can't answer your first question. there will be comparison charts that tell you what you need to know though. As for the second question you've loaded a PROGRAM called Acoustic Grand Piano, which pre-loads all the channels of your Sonic Instance, but from that point onwards you've overwritten the instrument in Slot 16 with a different instrument. It's like loading a MIDI song into Cubase then changing one of the instruments. It's still the same song, just with a different instrument on one track.
@@OneManAndHisSongs Thank You! What could You recommend on learning the basics about Cubase (and MIDI) on that level. Any of Your tutorial videos You could recommend?
You're welcome. I've made a couple of Cubase tutorial series - the Cubase Fundamentals series is the latest one. I'm in the process of making "one-shot" videos on V13, but that only started fairly recently. I've also made an "Essential MDII" series that goes into quite some depth on that subject. Check out the playlists from my channel home page and you'll find everything neatly sorted :)
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1:12 That's not actually what this does. That's a root level thing.
Sombody, please, before i start screaming and never stop...I'm pretty fluent in all things Mac, all things that connect to and use Mac...but either I'm just being a complete idiot or somebody''s not being clear...do I need to even have GB running to use this? I understand a "stand alone" program as one that can be used independently of anything else. No matter what I do, I cannot get sound to produce from this program. Not independently, not w GB running, not through my MIDI keyboard....WHAAAA???????
I have no experience of either Macs or (presumably?) Garage Band, but Halion is definitely standalone-capable and doesn't need anything else running to function. It sounds like a config issue - something with your audio interface, presumably, but impossible to trace without knowing your system setup. Steinberg Customer Support is slow, but they do eventually respond if you can bear the delay.
HALion 7 is insanely complicated to use. It's not intuitive at all and 95% of clicks don't do anything I expected or hoped for them to do. Isn't making music supposed to be fun? Steinberg really should improve their software, and make better tutorials as well!
Completely agree. Came here to see if I wanted to upgrade from Halion 6. A VST I never ended up using. Watching this video, confirms why I don’t. I don’t have time for this. I do appreciate his work with this tutorial however.
What synth do you prefer? I’ve tried pretty much all major synths and Halion looks powerful, easy no, but powerful yes.
@@BenCaesar anything U-he, Arturia, even Vital. Basically anything with few menus and meaningful controls that are intuitive.
@@BenCaesar I'm able to cover the most ground and get the best results with Omnisphere, Serum, Kontakt and Reaktor. I still haven't found any proper tutorials for HALion 7 yet.
@@davidknight754 Exactly! U-he and Arturia plugins are highly intuitive. Vital as well. I use all 3 of these often! 🎯