Congrats to Steinberg ror making a first step in the right direction, supporting the Ipad, unlike Arturia or Native Instruments or Ableton. When will I be able to run my desktop V9 collection on my Ipad? It’s not that difficult to port to M1 chip support… or my NI libraries. It’s all about the money. I am going to test HALion’s stability to see how well it runs live on 16/32 channels compositions, layers and splits, then I will give it my full support and blessings.
Yep. I have two Arturia MIDI controllers and when I look at Arturia's "tutorials" they seem more like ads to me. Then there is no mention of anything that is for iPad, only for PC and Mac, which they simply call a "computer," as if PCs and Macs are the only computers in existence.
@@GaryR55 you can use them with the ipad but not “oficially”. You can map the controls with AUM but it is a shame we can not use our licenses on an ipad, which is more than capable to handle the vsts. I have a keystep 32 and an older keylab for when I am on the road.
@@doubleohdutch2108 I have the Keystep 37 and the Minilab 3. They do work fine with my iPad, but I have always needed third party tutorials on RUclips, as Arturia's documentation doesn't even mention iPads.
@@doubleohdutch2108 Not so sure about iPads and VSTs, though. When I was using Acoustica Mixcraft on a Windows PC, I used VSTs all the time. But, I think the many apps for iPad that essentially do the same things are the iPad equivalent of VSTs. I plan on getting a Macbook Air soon, for use with my three USB external storage drives, but also for music, probably via Garageband and Cubase Artist 13, which can share files with the iPad versions of Garageband and Cubasis.
@@GaryR55 The problem with that setup is having to depend on external storage, which is ok for a studio but not ideal for gigging. An ipad lacks connectivity too, I still have to depend on hubs, but at least I have a Tb of storage and a M1 chip, and the added value of a touchscreen.
Hi Jakob. Thanks for announcing it. I've been aware of it for a few years. Take Rebirth for example. Take care of old iPad or iPhone without updating them and use them as synths and store them.It's incredibly cool even with an old iPad 3 plugged into the mixing desk or an iPhone 5se as an extra as it still works but requires a bit of sampling without sync, but it's just cool.Buttom Line keep your old gear👍
These sound great, I'm contemplating getting it. Do you know how large the full library is? Also, if you transfer a Cubasis project to Cubase would these Halion Sonic sounds tranfer as well, rather than as bounced audio files? Thanks!
Hi @jamescurtis, HALion Sonic Selection is a 1.8 GB download. Via the updated Cubasis Project Improper it is possible to open your Cubasis projects with Cubase, where desktop instruments derivates are automatically loaded when available. Hope that helps!
@@MobileAppsSteinberg Thanks for the quick response. 1.8GB is not bad at all for the amount of presets (of which they are high quality) in my opinion! Now I just need to decide if I upgrade on my Android or iOS device, haha. Okay, I will give that a try. Very happy to see a solid update for Cubasis, thanks!
I bought them as I found them and this vid justifies me. Btw I got my UR22C today through Amazon and it just worked nicely with my 2016 MacBook Pro and Cubase 11 and Logic, Live and Reason. Cool outlook is an added pleasure. I also upgraded Absolute from 4 to 6. Have a merry Christmas everyone.
Awesome Update,..Sounds like I can actually delete some of these extra synth apps I’ve accumulated over the years ,.( sucking the soul out of my I-pad ), and use more of the built in sounds . The sound quality has caught up with what Im looking for. Great job with demonstrating the detail.
Danggggg this adds a LOT 😲 I needed something more organic and different to fit into my nearly all-roland hardware setup 😅 will sit nicely in my performances I believe :)
Hi @prodbyryanbeatz, HALion Sonic Selection comes with a huge library of instruments presets, including many bass presets. But there are also two more FM instruments with Neo FM and FM Classics available, which also come with many bass presets.
@@MobileAppsSteinberg That would be great because I work in the field of electronic music and there are simply too few bass presets there is too little reese bass ect. …
I really like the keyboard. How is the configuration with the iPad Pro? What other hardware would I need? Keyboard (Akai MPK Mini MK2) ->UR22C -> iPadPro. Thank you very much.
HALion Sonic Selection includes a few dedicated key switch presets. Once a preset has been chosen, the lower keys that allow to switch to a different color set are coloured accordingly.
The drum kit sounds of Cubasis Halion Sonic Selection only play as long as you press down a key. That makes finger drumming for inputting a beat impossibke. Is there a way to set the drum sounds so they play in full length once triggered? As they do on every keyboard or workstation I know.
@@MobileAppsSteinberg Your cubasis video introduction is so exciting, I appreciate it very much😄 I hope cubasis can add the update of the time signature and speed as soon as possible😅
I'm genuinely excited about this 👀 By the way, on 2:15, there are also 2 knobs you didn't mention, the "mw vib speed" and "mw vib amnt". Can you explain what they do, please? I tried googling, but I didn't find much info on that. I suppose they're somehow related to vibrato, but I honestly can't hear the difference when I play around with them. Edit: Ok, I found what it does. My guess about vibrato was right, but for it to take effect, I had to use MOD wheel, which I usually hide and don't use manually. Looking back at it, it's kinda obvious, since the first 2 letters of their names start with "mw". But hey, I was a little bit sleepy, don't blame me :P
The great thing is: You can give Dom a keyboard with just a few keys on it, an old iPad or whatever... and he will always capture magical stuff with it...
If you have an AKAI or any other controller with Pads then a clever way of doing this would be to assign the VX key switches to the pads (every midi keyboard allows you to change the pitch -e.g. C1, C#1, D1 etc-of the pads), it works brilliantly and is the way I work all the time when I’m mobile ;)
We need Kontakt for iPads, with the power these new M4 iPads have its ridiculous we don’t have Kontakt for iPad OS (Natives fault not Steinberg obviously) I think when my iPads finally give up the ghost I’m going with a new Microsoft Surface Snapdragon + co-pilot (or whatever’s newest then) and then run Cubase and Kontakt.
Also any recording ,..Song or Sample file you make in the files app or AudioShare, or Audio copy, can be sent to The media section and it shows up in the “ Audio Files “ section,… then you can just set the play meter ( line ) select a track and double tap your sample or press and hold …then drag it to the section on the track where you want it . Then up top is a stretch function that if you select -Auto - it will sync to the tempo and you can speed up, and slow down , with your song .… ( just trying to help) 👍
That would have made the price going up by tenfold. At least Steinberg made a first step, unlike Ableton, Arturia or Native Instruments, all of them huge letdowns by not supporting the Ipad. Must be some sort of complot. I bought an ipad pro for a reason, i will NOT buy an airbook or laptop if my ipad cost me way more than that. On the other hand, we have logic pro but, where is the vst support for that?
Agreed. I think that, eventually, physical modeling will become the way things go. For now, though, it's cheaper to just record a bunch of samples. The SWAM instruments give the musician such a range of control, though, that would have to be covered by a whole library of samples, just for each instrument. The sound of any of the SWAM instruments is highly variable and expressive and hardly takes up any space at all when compared to samples. I can always tell the difference by the sound, too.
Do you think creating modeled instruments is like clicking a record button and then putting them into an app? It requires a lot of people and a ton of research, and this translate in a much higher price for the final product. Sure modeling is better but it's something completely different and not easy at all like having a soundbank.
HALion doesn't download they are having bandwidth issues and not doing anything to fix it... I paid for it and I can't download it and it's been three days.
Hi, We are sorry to read about your download issues. Please check out the following article, which hopefully helps resolving your problems: forums.steinberg.net/t/troubleshooting-cubasis-instruments-download-issues/887620/2. To further exchange, let's keep up the discussion in the Cubasis forum. While there has been to issues to download HALion Sonic Selection for some users, all of them have succeed to do so in the end from what we know.
UPDATE: I was able to download all the instruments eventually... and they sound amazing and great add on... thank you. CUBASIS... this is the go to mobile DAW.
I bet they are samples so disk space is a worry. Companies that are making apps for iPad/Mobile need to rethink this. Audio modeling is the best way to go for mobile me thinks.
@@Noldy__ that’s great, most people don’t have issues connecting, it’s just everything else that comes along with it which has been fairly well documented.
Why doesn’t Steinberg add things like Tempo Track, export mono tracks, Event List and Drum List editors? It’s basically a great-sounding but completely unusable DAW for anything professional. Steinberg needs to study what Logic for iPad has added to make Cubasis the top DAW. I’ve been reading how many Cubasis users are jumping ship because of the important missing features. What’s going on, Steinberg?.
Im very disappointed i ve spent 49 for this app and it does t even have a duplicate function ..still copy paste....no group tracking .....no probability.. offset scale notes on midi editor ...no clip launcher and scene ....and all they implemented a part giving you more sounds ( which we dont need we use other app for that ) is black coloured keys ...thats embarrassing compared with logic pro.... what are you doing steinberg ?
We are sorry to read that this update seems not to be for you. We continue making Cubasis better with every update, hoping to catch you with the next one!
@@MobileAppsSteinberg thanks for the reply, can you please implement a drag loop selection or duplicate function button ..because the copy paste selection right now its very limiting ... and slow down the workflow ..there is should be the possibility to drag a selection at the end a copy it as many time as i drag it on the timeline ...
I’m happy with this huge and long awaited update!!! Already purchased it!!!
Can’t see it in the apple App store! Where can I buy it?
@@puito6024 Update Cubasis and go to store
@@puito6024it’s an in-app purchase, once you own Cubasis 3
Absolutely fantastic demo, I wasn’t going to buy Halium until I heard you playing it, it’s a dream, it’s like I have now Kontakt desktop on my iPad 👌
Thanks for the demonstration Dom. The ‘Film Piano’ sounds amazing.. I will definitely be purchasing.. 👍
Congrats to Steinberg ror making a first step in the right direction, supporting the Ipad, unlike Arturia or Native Instruments or Ableton. When will I be able to run my desktop V9 collection on my Ipad? It’s not that difficult to port to M1 chip support… or my NI libraries. It’s all about the money. I am going to test HALion’s stability to see how well it runs live on 16/32 channels compositions, layers and splits, then I will give it my full support and blessings.
Yep. I have two Arturia MIDI controllers and when I look at Arturia's "tutorials" they seem more like ads to me. Then there is no mention of anything that is for iPad, only for PC and Mac, which they simply call a "computer," as if PCs and Macs are the only computers in existence.
@@GaryR55 you can use them with the ipad but not “oficially”. You can map the controls with AUM but it is a shame we can not use our licenses on an ipad, which is more than capable to handle the vsts. I have a keystep 32 and an older keylab for when I am on the road.
@@doubleohdutch2108 I have the Keystep 37 and the Minilab 3. They do work fine with my iPad, but I have always needed third party tutorials on RUclips, as Arturia's documentation doesn't even mention iPads.
@@doubleohdutch2108 Not so sure about iPads and VSTs, though. When I was using Acoustica Mixcraft on a Windows PC, I used VSTs all the time. But, I think the many apps for iPad that essentially do the same things are the iPad equivalent of VSTs. I plan on getting a Macbook Air soon, for use with my three USB external storage drives, but also for music, probably via Garageband and Cubase Artist 13, which can share files with the iPad versions of Garageband and Cubasis.
@@GaryR55 The problem with that setup is having to depend on external storage, which is ok for a studio but not ideal for gigging. An ipad lacks connectivity too, I still have to depend on hubs, but at least I have a Tb of storage and a M1 chip, and the added value of a touchscreen.
Nice demo! Seems like a lot of fun!
Thank you for your video beautiful sounds this needs to be put in a standalone.
Hi Jakob. Thanks for announcing it. I've been aware of it for a few years. Take Rebirth for example. Take care of old iPad or iPhone without
updating them and use them as synths and store them.It's incredibly cool even with an old iPad 3 plugged into the mixing desk or an iPhone 5se as an extra as it still works but requires a bit of sampling without sync, but it's just cool.Buttom Line keep your old gear👍
These sound great, I'm contemplating getting it. Do you know how large the full library is? Also, if you transfer a Cubasis project to Cubase would these Halion Sonic sounds tranfer as well, rather than as bounced audio files? Thanks!
Hi @jamescurtis, HALion Sonic Selection is a 1.8 GB download. Via the updated Cubasis Project Improper it is possible to open your Cubasis projects with Cubase, where desktop instruments derivates are automatically loaded when available. Hope that helps!
@@MobileAppsSteinberg Thanks for the quick response. 1.8GB is not bad at all for the amount of presets (of which they are high quality) in my opinion! Now I just need to decide if I upgrade on my Android or iOS device, haha. Okay, I will give that a try. Very happy to see a solid update for Cubasis, thanks!
HALion sounds amazing.
Indeed it does... :)
Sounds so Powerful! Happy that Cubasis is receiving some more support 💯🎄
Thanks for the kind feedback! We hope you will enjoy using the new instruments!
Great Sounds and nice demo. Thank you!
Because if your videos, today 12 may 2024 @ 1:57am est time, I bought CuBasis 3 and going to buy HALion Sonic also!
I bought them as I found them and this vid justifies me. Btw I got my UR22C today through Amazon and it just worked nicely with my 2016 MacBook Pro and Cubase 11 and Logic, Live and Reason. Cool outlook is an added pleasure. I also upgraded Absolute from 4 to 6. Have a merry Christmas everyone.
Enjoy being creative & have a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2024 yourself too!!
Awesome Update,..Sounds like I can actually delete some of these extra synth apps I’ve accumulated over the years ,.( sucking the soul out of my I-pad ), and use more of the built in sounds . The sound quality has caught up with what Im looking for. Great job with demonstrating the detail.
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for the video! 🤩
Great demo, Dom! Thanks! 😊
It’s a beautiful, thank you very much
Cubasis is great to create some midi, when you got the idea somewhere without access to PC. Or for some basic multiinstrument ideas. Great app
Danggggg this adds a LOT 😲 I needed something more organic and different to fit into my nearly all-roland hardware setup 😅 will sit nicely in my performances I believe :)
Not super interested in the FM IAPs since I have sooo many FM AUv3s but the HALion engine sounds amazing! Thanks 4 the demo! 🎉
We love them all, but it's your choice of course... ;)
What FM AUv3s do you like? I really like Cubasis’s FM synth and DX7 patches but I’m curious about the competition.
Thanks. This is very helpful.
Awesome!!!!!!
Beautiful wonderful sounds! Can the VX keys be MIDI mapped?
Is there any way to use polyphonic aftertouch with this halion rompler?
I think it would be great if there was even a bass or synth bass program like this just for house music....
Hi @prodbyryanbeatz, HALion Sonic Selection comes with a huge library of instruments presets, including many bass presets. But there are also two more FM instruments with Neo FM and FM Classics available, which also come with many bass presets.
@@MobileAppsSteinberg That would be great because I work in the field of electronic music and there are simply too few bass presets there is too little reese bass ect. …
I really like the keyboard. How is the configuration with the iPad Pro? What other hardware would I need? Keyboard (Akai MPK Mini MK2) ->UR22C -> iPadPro. Thank you very much.
where is that articulations screen on the trumpet at 8:03? are all instruments like this?
HALion Sonic Selection includes a few dedicated key switch presets. Once a preset has been chosen, the lower keys that allow to switch to a different color set are coloured accordingly.
I am still figuring out how the DAW works. But if I buy it Halion will be my next purchase.
Hi, Please check out our "Getting started with Cubasis" tutorial to dive into Cubasis easily and quickly: ruclips.net/video/bNIYJ2jM2zc/видео.html
@@MobileAppsSteinberg Thanks🙂
The drum kit sounds of Cubasis Halion Sonic Selection only play as long as you press down a key. That makes finger drumming for inputting a beat impossibke. Is there a way to set the drum sounds so they play in full length once triggered? As they do on every keyboard or workstation I know.
This guy makes it look so easy 😂 😭
How to set up different time signatures (3/4&4/4) in the same piece of music, and how to set up the fast and slow steps. Thank you!
On our list for future updates.
@@MobileAppsSteinberg Your cubasis video introduction is so exciting, I appreciate it very much😄 I hope cubasis can add the update of the time signature and speed as soon as possible😅
I'm genuinely excited about this 👀
By the way, on 2:15, there are also 2 knobs you didn't mention, the "mw vib speed" and "mw vib amnt". Can you explain what they do, please? I tried googling, but I didn't find much info on that. I suppose they're somehow related to vibrato, but I honestly can't hear the difference when I play around with them.
Edit:
Ok, I found what it does. My guess about vibrato was right, but for it to take effect, I had to use MOD wheel, which I usually hide and don't use manually. Looking back at it, it's kinda obvious, since the first 2 letters of their names start with "mw".
But hey, I was a little bit sleepy, don't blame me :P
How is it on cpu?
Might be time for a new iPad! Cheers Dom 😂😂
The great thing is: You can give Dom a keyboard with just a few keys on it, an old iPad or whatever... and he will always capture magical stuff with it...
Nice demo., how to change Attack and release parameters?
Attack and release you can edit in the automation section, much more parameters you can adjust there that are not shown on the halion app itself.
Thank you very much!@@cargojacker
@@cargojackernow that is a TOP tip. They should really advertise that possibility.
I hope you don’t need to press with one ☝️ finger continuously for VX sounds. Also, can you map controller functions on AKAI to Cubasis ?
If you have an AKAI or any other controller with Pads then a clever way of doing this would be to assign the VX key switches to the pads (every midi keyboard allows you to change the pitch -e.g. C1, C#1, D1 etc-of the pads), it works brilliantly and is the way I work all the time when I’m mobile ;)
You can add the vx after you recorded the melody..
Can it be used as AUv3 plugin in other DAW?
Does Halion also work in the free Cubasis LE ore is it necessary to buy
the full version ?
If you've purchased the Full Feature Set IAP within Cubasis LE, you will find the new instruments IAP in the shop as well.
The knobs on your controller can be mapped to the plugins no?
Hi, The new instruments include MIDI Learn and automation support. Hope that helps!
We need Kontakt for iPads, with the power these new M4 iPads have its ridiculous we don’t have Kontakt for iPad OS (Natives fault not Steinberg obviously) I think when my iPads finally give up the ghost I’m going with a new Microsoft Surface Snapdragon + co-pilot (or whatever’s newest then) and then run Cubase and Kontakt.
Can it used in android device ?
Cubasis 3.6 and the new instruments IAPs have been released via Google Play too. The performance is strongly related to the Android device in use.
The new HALion sounds very fat. I hope that cubasis 4 or Cubase 1.0 for ipad will be available very soon
How do I connect midi keyboard to my iPhone?
Cubasis fully supports class compliant devices, which normally works via plug and play! Hope that helps!
Can I use my own samples?
Hi, There is no option to use your own samples, but HSS comes with 1100+ presets...
And you can add your own samples using the Cubasis built in sampler.
Also any recording ,..Song or Sample file you make in the files app or AudioShare, or Audio copy, can be sent to The media section and it shows up in the “ Audio Files “ section,… then you can just set the play meter ( line ) select a track and double tap your sample or press and hold …then drag it to the section on the track where you want it .
Then up top is a stretch function that if you select -Auto - it will sync to the tempo and you can speed up, and slow down , with your song .… ( just trying to help) 👍
If you had modeled some of the voices like SWAM does, then they would not have had to be so large soundbanks.
That would have made the price going up by tenfold. At least Steinberg made a first step, unlike Ableton, Arturia or Native Instruments, all of them huge letdowns by not supporting the Ipad. Must be some sort of complot. I bought an ipad pro for a reason, i will NOT buy an airbook or laptop if my ipad cost me way more than that. On the other hand, we have logic pro but, where is the vst support for that?
Agreed. I think that, eventually, physical modeling will become the way things go. For now, though, it's cheaper to just record a bunch of samples. The SWAM instruments give the musician such a range of control, though, that would have to be covered by a whole library of samples, just for each instrument. The sound of any of the SWAM instruments is highly variable and expressive and hardly takes up any space at all when compared to samples. I can always tell the difference by the sound, too.
? I want to know as well
@@doubleohdutch2108But Swam instruments are already available for iOS. 😉
Do you think creating modeled instruments is like clicking a record button and then putting them into an app? It requires a lot of people and a ton of research, and this translate in a much higher price for the final product. Sure modeling is better but it's something completely different and not easy at all like having a soundbank.
HALion doesn't download they are having bandwidth issues and not doing anything to fix it... I paid for it and I can't download it and it's been three days.
Hi, We are sorry to read about your download issues. Please check out the following article, which hopefully helps resolving your problems: forums.steinberg.net/t/troubleshooting-cubasis-instruments-download-issues/887620/2. To further exchange, let's keep up the discussion in the Cubasis forum. While there has been to issues to download HALion Sonic Selection for some users, all of them have succeed to do so in the end from what we know.
@@MobileAppsSteinbergI have tried everything you mentioned in the forum and it still hasn’t worked
UPDATE: I was able to download all the instruments eventually... and they sound amazing and great add on... thank you. CUBASIS... this is the go to mobile DAW.
I bet they are samples so disk space is a worry. Companies that are making apps for iPad/Mobile need to rethink this. Audio modeling is the best way to go for mobile me thinks.
Hi @Noldy, All new instruments perform greatly inside Cubasis!
I agree but luckily it’s only 2 GB for everything. With apple would allow the iPad to properly work with SSDs also. Not just the developers faults.
@@HotStrange I have no problem connecting my SSD to my iPad. Unless you mean something that I don't know.
@@Noldy__ that’s great, most people don’t have issues connecting, it’s just everything else that comes along with it which has been fairly well documented.
@@HotStrange I understand. It has its own weird things but for the most part, it is what it is.
What afro beats
Why doesn’t Steinberg add things like Tempo Track, export mono tracks, Event List and Drum List editors? It’s basically a great-sounding but completely unusable DAW for anything professional. Steinberg needs to study what Logic for iPad has added to make Cubasis the top DAW. I’ve been reading how many Cubasis users are jumping ship because of the important missing features. What’s going on, Steinberg?.
Im very disappointed i ve spent 49 for this app and it does t even have a duplicate function ..still copy paste....no group tracking .....no probability.. offset scale notes on midi editor ...no clip launcher and scene ....and all they implemented a part giving you more sounds ( which we dont need we use other app for that ) is black coloured keys ...thats embarrassing compared with logic pro.... what are you doing steinberg ?
We are sorry to read that this update seems not to be for you. We continue making Cubasis better with every update, hoping to catch you with the next one!
@@MobileAppsSteinberg thanks for the reply, can you please implement a drag loop selection or duplicate function button ..because the copy paste selection right now its very limiting ... and slow down the workflow ..there is should be the possibility to drag a selection at the end a copy it as many time as i drag it on the timeline ...
To me it sounds like a cheap Cassio keyboard
I wish! I love Casios!
😂