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The VST Sampler

HALion 3.0 The definitive software sampler

Since its launch in 2001, HALion has been pushing back boundaries in virtual samplers. HALion 3 is no exception: over 50 new features ensure that HALion stays where it always has been: at the forefront of digital audio technology. This latest version expands existing HALion capabilities to new levels of accessibility and flexibility, creating a virtual sampler environment that not only lets your creativity flourish, but lets you work more productively and efficiently than ever before. Building on the outstanding surroundcapable HALion 2.0 sampling engine with support for up to 32-bit floating point files, HALion 3 adds even more new capabilities. A new output routing system allows you to create and configure the audio outputs; only the outputs you need will be routed directly to the host VST mixer. The sleek new user

Macro Vision The compact display mode with all the most important parameters

Seeing the wood for the trees HALion 3 lets you get to the audio you need quicker with an impressive set of powerful new sound management tools. The new file browser with drag’n’drop support and new Favorites function makes your sample files library fully accessible directly within HALion, giving you a clear overview over all your sound files. The intuitive Sound Categories system lets you group related sounds together, and find them quickly later. And the HALion 3 database functionality indexes your sound library and lets you search for convenient keywords and categories, helping you find your sounds in seconds.

Loopmatic Creating loops in your sampler has never been easier than with the HALion 3 automatic zero crossing detection, crossfade and A/B previewing features

interface is not only easy on the eyes but has been restructured to keep switching between the different HALion views to a minimum. These are just some of the reasons why HALion has received a new nickname: the definitive software sampler. Even more file formats Your virtual sampler should be able to import sample data from the widest possible range of formats to make sure you’re compatible with other instruments and file standards. That’s why in HALion 3 we’ve added Kurzweil, Kontakt and ZeroX BeatCreator to the already long list of supported formats

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such as AKAI, E-MU, Roland, GIGA, EXS24, SF2, LM4, LM4 MkII, REX, WAV, AIF, SD II (Mac only), ISO and Nero Disc Image.

More creativity with new Effects section A pristine 32-bit sampling engine and filters bearing the legendary Waldorf moniker have established HALion as a fantastic-sounding VST sampler. But to make working creatively with audio in HALion even more inspiring, we’ve included a dazzling new effects section. 27 quality effects encompass just about any effect requirement, from subtle reverbs and EQs through specialist guitar tools like AutoWahwah all the way to heavy-duty sound-manglers like BitCrusher and TalkBox. Sound like nothing new? A closer look at the new HALion 3 effect handling reveals that each effect can be applied to each individual sample, program or event to entire banks. And the new routing matrix in HALion 3 even allows send effects from within HALion to be routed directly into the host VST mixer. That’s what we call creative power at your fingertips.

Load ‘em up The new File Browser with Favorites, database functions and easy to use sound categorization system

RAMSave™ Technology

Modulation Madness

HALion 3 now offers RAMSave™, a new feature created to keep in check the RAM resources needed by even the most extensive sample instruments. With RAMSave™, HALion 3 dynamically scans through an entire project, and unloads any sample from the computer’s RAM that isn’t needed. Sounds can be reloaded to RAM instantly when needed with a single mouse click. The result is low RAM usage and faster project load and save times, a boon for pro users using large, intricate sampled instruments such as orchestral combi patches or large drum kits.

The new Alternate mode adds a range of functions, including a special mode that plays a different sample with slight variations with each new Note On message, introducing more spontaneity and feeling. And while extensive modulation functions are a must in any modern virtual sampler, HALion 3 also adds extra accessibility with the capacity to assign any MIDI controller to any modulation effect, making creative, experimental sound design that bit more intuitive.

Access all areas The main Sound Page offers access to all areas, including filters, envelopes, effects and the extensive HALion 3 modulation capabilities

Feature Highlights • Up to 32 Bit / 96 kHz file support • 256 Voices per instance, several instances loadable simultaneously • 16-way multi-timbral with an individual editor for program selection • 128 programs per instance, unlimited layers per program • Full individual parameter set for each sample if required, ideal for drum sounds • Notch / High Pass / Low Pass / Band Pass 12 dB and 24 dB Filter as well as fantastic sounding Waldorf filters, and Fatness function for Overdrive filter sounds • Keyzone Editor for quick mapping of keyzones, samples, sample layers and velocity values with drag’n drop support and several automapping modes

• Ultra-flexible internal routing management: • Up to 128 freely configurable outputs per instance • 5.1 surround support • Insert effects can be applied to individual samples, sample groups or entire programs • Effects sends can be sent to the HALion internal Send effects or directly to the VST mixer through configurable outputs to share plug-in Resources between the Host and HALion • All new realtime FX: Reverb, Phaser, Talkbox, Delays, EQs, BitCrusher, AutoWahWah and much more (27 effects total) • Integrated Waveloop Editor with crossfade, snap to zero, loop, release loop, loop tuning settings • Total recall: all samples are saved with your song, including the respective settings

• Sample-accurate timing and automation thanks to perfect VST integration • Archive function, transfer of entire projects to other computers with zero hassle • RAMSave™ technology offers lower RAM needs, speeding project loading and saving • Import formats: AKAI, E-MU, Roland, Kurzweil, GIGA, Kontakt, EXS24, SF2, LM4, LM4 MkII, REX, ZeroX BeatCreator, WAV, AIF, SD II (Mac only), ISO & Nero Disc Image • 2 synchronizable envelopes with up to 32 freely editable points, intuitive handling • 32-stage STEP envelope as free modulation source and 2 LFOs, syncnronizable to the host application

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HYPERSONIC The Ultimate Virtual Music Workstation

Hyper Modules Accessory Sound Modules for Hypersonic

Hypersonic is the music workstation that adds more power, more versatility and more sounds to your system than you’ve ever dreamt of. With its outstanding CPU efficiency, uncompromising sound quality and fast, easy tweaking options, Hypersonic is the ultimate sound factory for every computer-based musician.

Hyper Modules expand Hypersonic by adding fully-featured software instruments to the Hypersonic workstation environment. All Hyper Modules are fully editable, and each offers a special graphical user interface.

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Ultra Synth

The US-1 Ultra Synth is a virtual analog/ wavetable synthesizer with a punchy, powerful sound and extensive modulation features. This great sounding synth will let you rediscover the potential of analog synthesis.

Hypersonic is both a compositional work-horse and an expandable, highperformance sample player/synthesizer. It takes the musical instrument workstation concept to computer-based music production environments with higher quality, easier use, and more effective playability than ever before.

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Virtual Tonewheel Organ This Hyper Module resurrects the legendary organs and rotary cabinets from the 50s with their unique characteristics, ideal for all kinds of sounds from punchy basses to screaming leads. These fantastic emulations capture not just the sounds but also the soul of those legendary 50s sound machines.

With 5 high-quality sound generation engines, a large built-in patch library with 1000 patches from more than 50 categories featuring Wizoo’s acclaimed sound design, it delivers an unbelievable amount of sounds, effects, voices and outputs, allowing you to generate more high-quality sounds on any given system than ever before.

• Three oscillators with analog waveforms, wavetable synthesis, sync and unison modes • Multimode filter with audio modulation per oscillator and overdrive • Three envelopes, three LFOs • Modulation matrix for flexible, intuitive modulation management • “Expert” editor with detailed settings for huge array of sound-forming parameters • 256 patches by pro sound designers included

• Nine drawbars

• Unique tonewheel simulation

A fully integrated database makes finding the right sounds a breeze; “hyper knobs” allow for quicker, easier and more intelligent sound-tweaking than ever before at the turn of a single knob.

• Switch for Percussion on/off, loud/soft, short/long, 3rd/2nd Harmonic • Selectable Key click • Virtual rotary cabinet (Leslie) with valve preamp; speed, sound characteristics and distortion adjustable

Thanks to its proprietary and unique optimization engine, Hypersonic dramatically reduces CPU loading, RAM/disk space requirements, and patch/combi loading times.

• Realistic representation of horn rotor • Rotor cabinet can be used as effect in every patch

The Hypersonic synthesis engines and sound library are expandable with Hyper Modules.

• 64 patches by Peter Gorges included

GP-2 Grand Pianos

Feature Highlights • Multitimbral, multi-synthesis, super-polyphonic workstation with integrated effect and mixing capabilities • 1000 preset patches, 100 combis, 70 drumkits, 2560 user programs • Easy and powerful macro editing (hyper knobs) and large, comfortable user interface. • 5 Synthesis Engines: Multisample, Virtual Analog Synthesis, FM Synthesis, Wavetable Synthesis, Sliced Wave Loop Synthesis • Wave ROM featuring more than 400 (multisampled) waveforms, optimized to 260 MB size (linear: 600 MB) for extremely low RAM usage and fast patch loading/switching. • Proprietary wave optimization saving up to 66 % CPU load resp. RAM/Disk space

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Professional, uncompromised audio quality 16x multitimbral, integrated audio and midi mixers Polyphony: up to 1024 voices per instance Expansion Bay with 5 slots for future synth engine or library expansions Integrated database for quick and effective name, attribute and category search Up to 16 pre-programmed + 4 user-editable effects per patch, 4 main FX, 40 algorithms of all types Max. 32 output channels, configurable (Quad, Stereo, Mono) Built-in Arpeggiator, extensive realtime (MIDI) control, fully tempo-syncable LFOs/Effects

The company that developed the acclaimed “The Grand” concert piano now presents the GP-2 Hyper Modules. GP-2 offers two concert grand pianos with detailed, realistic sound yet with very low memory usage. • Two concert grand pianos • Selectable sound characteristics (soft/natural/bright/hard) • Three versions of each piano for optimized sound for different RAM capabilities • Velocity curves adjustable using three preset switches

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Groove Agent Your Virtual Drummer

Xphraze The Ultimate Phrase Synthesizer

Xphraze has been developed to offer musicians completely new ways of bringing rhythmically phrased sounds into projects quickly and intuitively. Xphraze is the first virtual synthesizer in a long time that has the potential to revolutionize music making for many.

tempo automatically. Although this concept is utterly new to the instrument market, many musicians have long been waiting for exactly this type of instrument, especially those who have been forced to work with partial solutions such as polyphonic arpeggiators or step sequencers.

Xphraze is the first synthesizer to be based on free-form and real-time automation of rhythm and sound. Instead of having to be programmed into a sequencer, rhythmic phrases can be built in just a few seconds with only a few clicks and let loose simply by playing a note or chord. Xphraze is built around the song tempo; the Phrase Generator. Envelopes and LFOs all follow the song

As is to be expected from a top-class synthesizer and phrase generator, Xphraze offers the entire synthesizer sound palette available today, including stereo poly-patterns, hammering bass lines, dazzling arpeggios, distorted chord riffs and up to 4-layered drum loops and effect patterns synchronized to the song tempo.

Feature Highlights • Four-part multi-timbral polyphonic phrase synthesizer, full loop and temposync capability (phrase oscillators, envelopes and LFOs). • Each Timbre consists of: Phrase Oscillator (32 cells) with individual note resolution, amp section and multimode filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and notch filters with 12-72 dB slopes) with free-form loopable envelopes, two ad-ditional freeform loopable auxiliary envelopes, two freeform LFOs, arpeggiator, unison mode. • Each Phrase Oscillator contains: individual waveform per cell, plus a maximum of six freely assignable cell parameters, such as pitch, cutoff, resonance, pan, level, gate-time and more. Each cell parameter curve freely mouse-editable. • Unlimited, freely assignable modulation potential with full morph capability (one controller controls multiple parameters at a time, which can be adjusted individually).

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Rounding off the extensive functionality on offer is multisample import, vector synthesis, four-way mutitimbrality, 8 stereo effect sections and a feature which lets the user remix prepared Xphraze songs live using a MIDI keyboard. This makes Xphraze not merely one more VST synthesizer among many, but opens up new, quicker and more intuitive ways to work for pop music arrangers and DJs. as well as offering utterly new ways of producing sounds.

• Phrase playback can be fully adjusted for each timbre: play and loop range (start/end) can be adjusted on-screen, switchable trigger/mute per cell, adjustable cell crossfade/duration. • Performance controllable stereo insert effects for each timbre from 24 effect types, plus two master effects from six types. • Includes a pool of 256 preset phrases and 256 user phrases. • 500 MB Wave ROM with more than 200 waveforms. • Imports AIFF and Wave samples, automap function for multisamples • Sample-accurate audio engine featuring 32 Bit floating-point resolution, 192 kHz sample rate, and 1024 voices/notes (256 per timbre). • Four assignable stereo outputs with vector synthesis — output mix can be controlled via any assignable modulation source. • Integrated mouse-controllable keyboard and wheels.

Brought to you by the creators of Virtual Guitarist, Groove Agent is a stunning new VSTi that provides you with readyto-go drum rhythms in only a few mouse clicks. Featuring the versatility in playing style which any trained studio drummer should have, Groove Agent can play the hottest, most popular and influential styles from the past 50 years of music history – inside your VST host application. Based on quality drum samples most of which were recorded especially

to analog tape, Groove Agent puts a top studio drummer at your fingertips. Creating your own drum track couldn't be simpler – just choose a music style, a drum kit and you're off. The drum rhythms and sounds are instantly tweakable: set the amount of drum room ambience, play fills and half-time breaks. Groove Agent can play at over two dozen different complexity levels, allowing you to create the right mood with your rhythm track simply by moving a slider.

Feature Highlights • Over 50 musical styles (each with their own drum style patterns), programmed by top musicians • Two dozen complexity levels in each style, including fills and half • Tempo feel variations • Combine any style with any drum kit – instantly • Four unique drum kits plus percussion and numerous electronic drum sounds • Separate dry and wet (ambience) samples and 4 stereo outputs for total flexibility

You can also replace any of the preprogrammed instruments with your live playing from your keyboard, and adjust volume, ambience, decay, tuning and velocity response individually for each instrument. From slammin’ dance through classic Motown to kerosene-fuelled rock – need drums? Contact your Groove Agent.

• User-configurable drum kits, including tweaking of sounds • 24 Bit drum sounds, most of them recorded via analog tape • Combine any musical style with any preset kit • Fine-tune the overall feel with the Shuffle and Humanize controls • Save snapshots of your tweaks for easy recall • Special mode for GM compatible output

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Virtual Guitarist Everyone’s favorite rhythm guitarist

It’s always the same problem: Try calling a professional guitarist in the middle of the night when you need a slick 12 string accompaniment for a ballad or a hard metal groove for an advert soundtrack. Introducing Virtual Guitarist – a perfect rhythm guitarist who plays both acoustic and electric guitar, including all keys and difficult chords, who never gets impatient, sounds better, always plays 100 % tight, is always completely in tune and who doesn’t need to set up his equipment or be miked up, and integrates perfectly into your VST system.

Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition” Electric rhythm guitar and guitar FX board for VST He’s a professional guitarist. He owns a wealth of classic guitars and amps. He masters any conceivable electric rhythm guitar style from past to present. He brings his own stylish multi effect board. And he’ll never argue. A success story continues. Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition” is the perfect rhythm guitarist for anyone needing electric guitar tracks. This VST instrument is based on real recordings, yet is as flexible as a synthesizer. Featuring 29 different players from the 50s to the present day, Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition” oozes authentic sound character whilst

offering unrivalled playability and outstanding tempo flexibility. Also included is a fully featured multi-effect board with Wah pedal, Filter, Delay, Reverb, Phaser, Chorus and Flanger; these quality guitar effects can be used both within Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition” and in a VST host application on normal audio tracks. Playing Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition“ is as easy as using lead sheets. Select a player, select some chords and it plays perfect tracks. Liven it up with real-time controls like syncopation, phrasing variations or long chords. Change shuffle or dynamics, use track doubling or be creative with the many effects provided.

Virtual Guitarist isn’t a MIDI drone, it’s based on guitar tracks recorded by professional guitarists. That’s why you can’t tell a Virtual Guitarist track from a real guitar part played live. And you can edit all guitar tracks whenever you like, such as changing the guitar sound, changing the key, rearranging phrasing – it’s all possible. Virtual Guitarist gives you dozens of guitarists specialized in acoustic or electric guitar. Each one can play their part perfectly, regardless of whether its finger-picking on a classy 12-string, strumming folk on a steel string guitar, funky off-beats, dynamic wah parts, crystalclear LA licks on classic electric guitars and hard metal riffs.

Many musicians dream of owning a concert grand piano. Unfortunately, such an instrument needs too much space, is too expensive, requires tuning and is a pain to record or carry around. Digital pianos or samplers have been the only alternative so far, but while the basic sound may come close, they just never feel right. That was yesterday. Today we’re proud to present the world’s first ideal concert grand piano, The Grand. It is not a digital piano, nor is it a ROM player that reels off piano sounds. It is, in fact, a perfectly simulated grand concert piano, based on the sounds from a top-flight acoustic grand piano – guaranteeing you powerful bass, crystal clear mid-range and brilliant treble.

The Grand Owning a grand piano no longer has to remain a dream…

Unrivalled feel and sound The Grand reproduces the thrilling experience that is a large grand piano. There are no loops or audio compression to compromise the sound and feel. Not a single bit of your musical expression gets ignored: dynamic response, damper and hammer action, sostenuto pedal functionality – it’s all there.

Perfect integration into your environment The Grand is as easy to use as a grand piano should be: Set it up, open the lid and start playing. However, The Grand allows you to tailor it perfectly to your needs: freely programmable velocity curves, four master timbres (Natural, Soft, Bright, Hard), well tempered or concert grand tuning, and adjustable ambience.

When it comes to sound, recording quality, and expression nothing comes close to The Grand. That’s why we call it the “ideal” concert grand piano.

Just choose acoustic or electric. Select a player and you’re ready – even if you’ve never played guitar before. You can press single keys, whole chords or use a MIDI track.

Feature Highlights (VG)

Feature Highlights (VGEE) Guitarist • 29 different players offering a variety of guitars/amps, sounds and phrasing styles • Vast range of electric guitar styles for all kinds of music from the 50s to present • Variable playing – shuffle (groove), dynamics, timing (tight, loose), syncopation, long chords • Stereo width, track doubling and other sound shaping options • Flexible real-time variation (keyboard, mod-wheel, aftertouch, velocity) Multi Effect Board • integrated into VSTi or separately usable as VST plug-in • Effects: Wah, AutoFilter, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Delay, Reverb • For Cubase, Nuendo and all VST-compatible host applications – PC and Mac

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• Two VST instruments – acoustic and electric, with stylistically authentic and intuitive user interface • 20 different players with a variety of guitars, sounds and phrasing styles • 8 parts (variations) per player – flexible and variable in real-time • All popular guitar sounds and styles from Spanish to steel string to resonator or clean Strat to Wah guitar, heavy power chords and ultra metal – in high Wizoo quality • Variable playing characteristics – shuffle (groove), dynamics, timing (tight, loose), syncopated rhythms, long chords • Effects – Stereo width, track doubling, low cut / enhancer (acoustic), pickup selector / presence (electric) • Intelligent fret noise for complete authenticity • Flexible real-time variation – sound, phrasing – with keyboard, mod-wheel, aftertouch, velocity • Economical with system resources • For Cubase, Nuendo and all VST-compatible host applications – PC and Mac

Feature Highlights • Absolutely realistic, authentic sound based on an intelligent VSTi engine optimized for a concert grand piano • Playable with any MIDI keyboard • Authentic functionality of sustain and sostenuto pedals

• Easy recording due to perfect integration in the VST environment • Velocity individually adaptable to suit personal playing style • Complex variation of different sound characteristics such as dynamic response, dying out of notes, hammer action and string resonance

• Free variation of acoustic ambience thanks to complete separation of piano and room • Various performance optimization features to get the appropriate balance between sound quality and system performance

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ACK V-STA Virtual Instrument Rack for VST

Brought to you by the creators of VST, and offering 100 % VST-compatibility, V-STACK is the next step in the ever-expanding world of Steinberg’s VST technology. V-STACK is the ideal tool for playing and mixing VST instruments live from your PC or Mac, offering features such as keyboard splits and layers alongside a fully-equipped mixer with EQs, effect inserts and sends. All this in the same pristine 32 Bit floating point audio quality users of Cubase SX/SL and Nuendo have become accustomed to. An ideal extension rack for VST System Link, V-STACK also expands musicmaking capabilities in Cubase and Nuendo using VST System Link, Steinberg’s CPU resource-sharing and synchronization technology. Up to 16 VST instruments can be added to your VST System Link network without needing to add another sequencer.

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Thanks to its superior sound quality in all common articulations and convenient section layout, HALion String Edition offers fantastic playing feel and a sound character suited to any musical style from classical to contemporary. A software sampler is not required, as the included HALion String Player is an ideal virtual instrument for these first class string sounds – for both the VST and DirectX platforms.

The top-notch recording techniques used gives the HALion String Edition a warm character, an outstanding sound quality and an unobtrusive, natural ambience.

The ultimate symphonic strings collection from Steinberg/Wizoo features sections of eight double basses, ten cellos, twelve violas and sixteen violins, each in two versions you can combine freely with other sections. A multitude of presets make arranging and combining sections a breeze.

HALion String Edition Volume 1 – all the strings you need.

The specially developed HALion String Player allows full control over articulations such as crescendo, bowing or portamento. The additional HALion programs allow creative editing and limitless combination with other sounds in HALion (see pages 2 and 3).

Feature Highlights Orchestra Highlights • Four sections : 8 Double Basses, 10 Cellos, 12 Violas, 16 Violins • Articulations: legato, tremolo, whole tone trills, semitone trills, spiccato, pizzicato (loose/tight) • Professional players, selected vintage instruments • Up to 9 velocity layers from pp to ff per section • Real-time (de)crescendo control, alternating up/down bows, true string release action • All articulations cover entire instrument range (number of variations available varies per instrument and articulation) Key Features • Complete String Orchestra (Double Basses, Cellos, Violas, Violins) • Covers all common articulations such as legato, tremolo, pizzicato or spiccato • Suits all musical styles from classical to contemporary • Warm and defined sound character, true 24 Bit playback, perfectly balanced bow noise • Sections can be combined for a multitude of orchestra setups • Section size can be doubled by layering A and B sections • Unrivalled expressiveness, full dynamic range, up and down bows • Natural yet unobtrusive concert hall ambience, true key release action • No sampler required – HALion String Player with enhanced functionality included for Cubase, Nuendo and all VST- and DXi-compatible host applications • 5 GB of the finest material on 8 Cds

Feature Highlights • VST System Link support for VST instruments • Mixer featuring up to 200 or more channels simultaneously * • Supports up to 16 virtual instruments, each with own Input MIDI port and channel • Master keyboard functions for each individual VSTi such as Transpose, Layer and ìSplittingî of VSTiís in seconds • 8 send effect slots • 5 insert effects for each audio channel • 4 master effect insert slots • 4 group channels with same access to audio effects and EQ for submixing

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4-band fully parametric equalizer per channel Real-time support for VST2 and DirectX plug-ins ReWire 2 support Transport Bar allows setting of Tempo and Time Signature – ideal for live performance with VST instruments/effects • Adaptive and configurable track mixer • Viewing of multiple mixing parameters simultaneously • Remote control via dedicated hardware controllers such as Steinberg Houston, JL Cooper MCS-3000, JL Cooper CS-10, Roland MCR-8, Yamaha 01V, CM Automation, Motormix, Radikal SAC-2K and other units by Tascam, Roland and Yamaha * Depending on computer hardware

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