I played with the HALion 7 demo today, mainly with the FM Zone.
I own a Yamaha MODX and I love its FM-X engine, so HALion 7 would seem like a no-brainer. On the virtual instruments side, my most used synth is HALion’s main competitor, UVI Falcon.
Even if the additions on the FM synth engine side, compared to the MODX, are excellent, overall the MODX still feels like a much more powerful synth, and this is in large part because of the huge pallette of fantastic effects.
Not only very good bread and butter effects, but also some very creative FXs that add a lot when sound designing: wavefolder, Spiralizer, Slice, VCM Filter and Booster and much, much more.
Some of them are demoed in this video:
Needles to say for anyone familiar with it, Falcon also has a lot more effects and they are much better. There’s also a large pallette of creative effects there and HALion looks very weak in comparison.
why don’t you guys implement all your Yamaha Vcm plugins in cubase channel strip. The Vcm tape deck sounded better than magneto .So Ppl don’t have to buy 3rd party Analog style plugins.
While I see the potential, this would be a question for the cubase marketing team, so I can not answer this. At HALion Team, we prefer creating new effect algorithms. They then trickle down to other products, such as the algo used in Cubase Ultra Shaper, developed by my colleagues, the power duo, Matthias K. and Tilmann M., among others.
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