As far as I know, there aren’t too many free Halion libraries around. Sonic SE can also load libraries created by users who have the full version of Halion and who share their creations. Their are some pretty good instrument libraries, like their great Electric Bass library, which is unfortunately a bit overpriced and their Vibrant Electric Piano library: Most Halion Expansions are available commercially from the Steinberg shop. It’s intended to be used with “Halion Expansions” (basically the equivalent to Kontakt libraries). Halion Sonic SE (the one that can be downloaded for free) does not come with any content as far as I know. Halion Sonic comes free with Steinberg Cubase (including a library), while Sonic SE can be downloaded for free by anyone. Halion Sonic and Halion Sonic SE are just the player functionality without the in-depth sample editing. Halion is Steinberg’s equivalent to Native Instruments Kontakt – a full fledged sampling instrument that can also be used just as a player for libraries.
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The instrument is powered by Steinberg’s free HALion Sonic SE plugin. The multi-channel recordings were mixed to stereo in order to reduce the CPU and RAM usage when plating the instrument. The samples were carefully edited and denoised. In addition, a pair of room microphones were used to capture the sound from the player’s perspective and another two microphones were placed five meters from the piano to record the room tone.
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The soundboard was recorded with a pair of closely positioned mics, while the low-end character was captured with another microphone positioned just above the ground. The instrument was recorded with an array of seven microphones. The recording engineers paid special attention to capture the subtle nuances of the sampled piano. See also: 99Sounds Releases FREE Upright Piano VST/AU Plugin The instrument was recorded both with and without the mute pedal. The creators sampled a modern upright piano in a relatively small studio space, resulting in an intimate-sounding virtual piano. The library is the first virtual instrument released by Sonic Atoms. Novel Piano is an impressively good sounding upright piano sample library powered by the freeware HALion Sonic SE plugin. Though note to others, despite it being a free player, it only allows one machine install.Sonic Atoms has released Novel Piano, an upright piano sound library for the free HALion Sonic SE plugin by Steinberg.
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It appears to be an issue with the player, not the sample library. Performance view takes away the image all together and makes it effectively just a keyboard.ġ920x1080 resolution in my display settings which matches my 24 inch monitors native resolution.Īlso tried it on two different machines (same problem on both, 2nd computer is a laptop with a lower resolution native screen). I wish I could have caught that before going live. If you see my livestream today you will see the problem at the end. There is not a way to even capture the “window” of the GUI using OBS. I think there is much improvement that the HALion line could use as far as the GUI. make sure you are not doing any type of scaling in the Windows display settings. Try switching to Performance View (Click the “P” near the upper right side) and see what happens?Īlso what is your screen resolution.