![]() ![]() Native Instruments' Battery is an impressive sample‑playback plug‑in which beat HALion on to the market by several months, but was primarily designed for use with single‑hit percussion sounds, and is not really suitable for pitched, layered multisamples. However, HALion is the first really convincing professional sampler built specifically for Cubase VST. Of course, software samplers are not a wholly new idea: several developers have already produced some creditable examples, perhaps most notably Nemesys with Gigasampler and Emagic with EXS24 (the latter offering seamless integration with Logic Audio). If you're interested in how it runs under the competition, look at Mark Wherry's box on using it with Emagic's Logic Audio, which you'll find elsewhere in this review. However, as you might expect from a piece of Steinberg software, HALion was clearly designed for closest integration with Cubase, so that's what I used throughout this review. ![]() More specifically, it's a software sampler implemented in the form of a VST plug‑in, and therefore useable with Steinberg's ubiquitous Cubase VST MIDI + Audio sequencer, as well as compatible third‑party applications. Paul Sellars investigates Steinberg's HALion, which offers close integration with Cubase VST, but can also be used as a VST‑format plug‑in from other sequencers. Software samplers are not new, but until now they have only existed as stand‑alone applications or sequencer‑specific plug‑ins. ![]()
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