The controls display their modulator sources once you click them, and a drop-down menu allows you to add new ones. Changing how sounds dynamically morph is easier than ever. The level of modulation in HALion 7 has always been high but Steinberg has given it an overhaul with v7. (Image credit: Steinberg ) More modulation and creation Spectral Zone is certainly a HALion highlight and there’s enough in this section alone to change a single sound beyond all recognition. Other controls include Accelerate and Target which lets you speed up, freeze or slow down the sample as it plays back. These both twist in filter-style editing and a separate Filter tab lets you get even further into the frequency tweaking. There’s time-stretching and pitch shifting, both of which are among the most natural we have heard – but it goes deeper, with resynthesis options like Purity and Formant. Spectral Zone is another new addition, and we suspect this might take some elements from SpectraLayers, another title that has come into the Steinberg/Yamaha stable.Įither way, it lets you see and manipulate your audio in highly flexible ways. These can easily be changed (with classic DX7 options if you wish), and five main tabs take you into all other main sound tweaking areas so you’ll quickly be experimenting and creating. You get the operator guts of FM synthesis as drop-down menus or displayed graphically as an algorithm. That hardware instrument was, frankly, a pain to use FM Zone isn’t. It’s an obvious addition really, what with parent company Yamaha’s FM heritage via synths like the DX7. Version 7 includes some all-new goodies – of course, it does – the main one being FM Zone, to add to those synthesis options. Similar engines, price, effects and modulation, Falcon is a powerhouse of an instrument Almost industry standard sampling instrument with huge flexibility and option to add new collections

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