Steinberg has released version 3.2.0.1305 of their HALion Player (both the Retail and OEM versions).
New Features
- HALion Player now supports RAMsave, it’s a technology to reduce the load time of Projects and memory consumption of Samples that aren’t used. You can activate RAMsave by hitting the RAMsave button in the left bottom corner.
- playback your Song from start to end – HALion Player will now go into “scan-mode” and marks internally all Samples used by incoming notes on all Slots
- hit ok if you song ended – now HALion Player unloads any Samples that weren’t in use by your Song (again for all Slots) If you want to reload all Samples for a Program on a specific Slot, simply choose “Reload” from the Slot menue.
- Standalone version
- New Preferences Dialog
- Multiple physical output assignment support
- Improved Rewire support
- New MIDI Reset button (Panic)
- Options Page
- Changing the output configuration is now possible (Retail only)
- HALion now features ultra low preload time (down to 0,1 sec) and consumes less memory for same amount of samples
- New Mixdown mode for export (when not provided by Host, like in Logic)
- FXP program files are compressed now for allowing smaller file sizes
Fixes
- Standalone version
- MIDI input preferences were lost after re-loading standalone
- Options Page
- Better memory handling when changing preload time
- Fixed text and help-menu for Voice Buffers
- Various
- Slots would reset their settings if a new program were loaded. Fixed
- Fixed a DC offset problem which could lead up to 300db output peaks after long usage time
- Fixed conditions in which hanging notes could occur
- CC66 Sostenuto could cause a crash
- OSX (AU): leaving the Program List opened and closing HALion Player could lead to a crash
- OSX: better AU support
- OSX: sometimes the AU plugin could loose disk-streaming ability. Fixed
Check Steinberg for more information.
