All user reviews of 4/5 for the Steinberg HALion Sonic

Steinberg Halion Sonic is affordable and runs at a high level. It installs quickly and does not take up much disk space. You can also run other programs on your computer at the same time because it does not take up much CPU. It comes with a tone of sounds and patterns and you can even integrate it with Cubase 5 very easily. That was one of the key decisions for me because I use Cubase a lot.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The layout of Sonic is easy to work with, it makes everything faster because it seems like all the options are right in front of you on the main screen. You will have infinite possibilities to edit and shape your sounds in this program because it gives you all of the parameters, and you can even tweak those using a MIDI controller or keyboard.

OVERALL OPINION

You will get over a thousand different instrument sounds with this program and a ton of effects to use with those sounds. Now not all of the effects are that great, but they are useable and better than a lot of effects that come standard with most DAW’s. You can use this software on a Mac or a PC, you will need to have at least 2 GB of RAM, if you have that much you will be fine and it will run great.
Another thing to take note is that the activation process can get daunting because you need to have internet connections to do proper activation. For me that was an issue because my studio computer has no internet connectivity (on purpose) to keep all viruses and malware away from it. I thought I would be able to activate right out of the box but boy was I wrong. It was a headache trying to get it activated online but we figured it out. It does also require an eLicenser key and that is not included

when you're used to steinberg, one must know that you need a key e-LICENSE.
When you're on Logic, it says nowhere and nobody tells you!
Then he must learn to use E-LICENSE. I just want to make music!
Steinberg after having the phone, I managed to get the license key
I did the update to 1.5 and then downloaded the bank triebwerk ... and once again for the license.
(We would prsque happy to find a cracked version of the same by paying steinberg)

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I use it in my studio on Imac i3 4GB RAM with Logic
and on stage on my laptop i3 standalone.
On stage, it is stable once found the right latency settings
(There is a method or app is doing and it works perfectly).

in the studio, it is much less stable
Sync flexphrases of plant regularly and notes block when
returns to the beginning of the song.
It is pretty crappy but I need it!

OVERALL OPINION

6 months that I use, I toured the functions of the beast:
it is quite powerful, with a great choice of flexphrases to mount quickly moods, grooves. Electronic sounds sound great.
on the other hand, it lacks a lot of acoustic sounds no bank is proposed.
(No ethnic instruments, some wind instruments)
Some sounds that plague the CPU (hybrid strings).
I bought it to prepare a musical, driven by a CS6x.
in the pub, they say you can call 128 patches. This is true, but what they do not say is that you can just load the previous or next patch!
therefore no question of sending the PG 34 and have immediately changed his groove split / ep + strings.
We can fuck the system by preparing a multi 16canaux and send out on 16 different channels ...

this is a good software in general, may be a little young but that sounds
really good.
I wait without much illusion a universal bank type "studio" or "ethnic"

and experience with the same budget, I would have no choice and I would buy halion Sonic.

The important thing is talent!