Halion7 is fully functional in any DAW. I will say it again HALion7 is fully functional in any DAWI guess if HALion is only fully functional in Cubase then Steinberg should really make that clear in their marketing...It does support it. Steinberg is not slow to the party on this, they developed Note Expression as part of the VST3 spec and as such utilize it perfectlyIt isn't good enough for a flagship synth like HALion to not have MPE in 2024....Steiny have been really slow to the party on this...
The other DAW developers are the ones slow to the party on this
What's amazing is for all the people who think MPE is so important and who incorrectly complain about HALion7 and other software not supporting it, using Cubase should be a no brainer as the best scenario for MPE is at DAW level since it's your DAW that makes and records sequences and manages all your incoming MIDI from external sources
So if using MPE is REALLY important to you, you are already a Cubase user anyway
Unlike Falcon (which I also own) which doesn't support VST3 Polyphonic Note Expression, HALion7 does
The things you can Note Expressions blow away basic MPE, and if you want MPE support to be fully functional and realized you are already using a DAW that supports Note Expressions like Cubase
At it’s heart all MPE is just basic MIDI, Pitchbend and CC data per-MIDI-channel, each note is on a unique MIDI channel (2-16 going by the spec, with channel 1 being ‘global’). Note Expression can be set to control any CC, so there we go.
Since MPE is just basic MIDI data you are limited to values of 0-127. VST note expressions allow for a value range that exceeds the MIDI range of 0 to 127.
Quote simply basic and crude MPE as used in Falcon is a giant step backwards over what VST Note Expressions can do. You can use MPE controllers in Cubase to do basic MPE things , but you can do all kinds of things beyond that with much higher resolution with Note Expressions and you don't need an MPE controller to use them, while it certainly is a joy to do so a mouse is really all you need
I can't imagine not having Polyphonic Note Expressions at this point, it would be crippling
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Thu Jul 11, 2024 1:31 pm