IS this coming soon ?
My guess is 2031. 
HALion major version release years*:
4: 2011
5: 2013 ( ~2 years after prior version )
6: 2017 ( ~4 years after prior version )
7: 2023 ( ~6 years after prior version )
8: ???
*Sources:
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Wow , I’m so happy I started at v7. I bloody love it
8: 2031 it is. I should live so long. I hope it will be telepathy-enabled, so I don’t have to use my hands.
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Well, it can not be said that there is no pattern there.
Maybe the pattern starts again at 2. So, 2025… 
What exactly are you expecting from 8 besides a date? (no halion won’t take you on a date)
Don’t know what to expect, HALion7 has changed the way to work with samples love it !
Be great if it could auto sample (so it plays a set number of notes + RR & velocity) and auto map them , I have been using it to sample me modular synths which is so cool , it a little slow having to sequence notes 1st
Just a VL1 Engine (Virtual Acoustic Synthesizer).
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Pardon?
MIDI Output ports 
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sequence
There really isn’t a mystery here folks. Check the release dates. From what I can see (I have no clue what Steinberg is on-this is my opinion)…Halion gets updated about 14 or so months AFTER the Yamaha Top Synth gets it. Software on a hardware synth release schedule. That’s gonna work! 
Original Montage comes out. We get Halion 6. Fifty million years later-Montage M-then Halion 7. Unless something drastically changes-which I assume it won’t..we are literally getting HALF THE UPDATES that UVI Falcoln does! Not to mention Halion had over a decade head start and Flacon is better in almost every category-except for acoustic sounds. Interface is super beautiful. Amazing plug-ins with DAW level interfaces. It’s gorgeous.
Here is what Halion 8 needs (in my humble)
- Montage Effects.
- Better library. This is pretty absurd.
- Redesigned program tree (it’s a literal mess)
- Mac stability. No other synth crashes a daw like Halion does (on our Macs)
- Less fidgety interface.
- Default states on plugins
- Faster load times
- Better plugin interfaces.
- Update the original macro interfaces for those old instruments that have basically kinda fallen off . (Voltage, etc)
- Go to a 2 year update cycle.
I think if you are on a PC or you use Cubase-it may be solid. I dunno. We are YEARS past Halion 6 and crashes every single day in Logic. The issues never get fixed.
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By the way, Retrologue is dead?
Any update or rumours on where we might be with our HALion 8 speculation? It’s been almost 3 years since 7 was released. 
There was six years between HALion 6 and HALion 7.
oh dear
Just outdo Falcon and I’m happy…
It would take several releases for them to catch up to Falcon, which I think has practically won that race.
No, but there also isn’t anything they need to do with Retrologue 2 - except a HiDPI User Interface… cause it’s quite small and not very ergonomic on a 4K display.
Same with Padshop 2 and Groove Agent 5.
Those are fine, IMO. They just need a UI refresh (less a redesign, and more just making them scale better).
I think the way HALion’s UI is laid out is also problematic as it means things are quite tiny in there, and it becomes cluttered. That has always been one of the biggest complaints about Groove Agent and HALion, though…
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1: 2001
2: 2003
3: 2004
4: 2011
5: 2013 ( ~2 years after prior version )
6: 2017 ( ~4 years after prior version )
7: 2023 ( ~6 years after prior version )
8: ???
I had to complete this list 
I actually, I started with HALion 1. I still have the sounds around and I think I still have the physical media of Halion 3 somewhere.
About the Halion 7 UI being tiny: it does scale depending on your DPI setting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide the same +/- 25%, 50% options that Cubase does. I think this is desperately needed. Other than that, it is generally capable of scaling everything. I know a lot of people complain about the UI, but I personally think it is actually pretty well thought out and very flexible. I’d be pretty disappointed if they dumbed it down.
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