With millions of users worldwide, Steinberg is one of the world's largest manufacturers of audio software and hardware. They are dedicated to empowering you — engineers, musicians, producers and composers — giving you the tools to do what you do best: making music and producing audio to the highest standard. They ensure that nothing stands in the way of your creative process: from the initial spark of an idea right through to the finished project. They strive to feed the passion for music in everyone; to deliver applications and services that have a positive impact on you, your audience and the entire audio production industry.

Get tons of creative instruments, with over 130 GB of sound content for every kind of music production. Explore over 7,500 presets, next-generation synthesizers like Padshop and, with Groove Agent and Backbone, some of the best VST drum plug-ins available. And if that is not enough, you can easily build your own sample instruments with HALion.

Absolute Collection now comes with HALion 7, a groundbreaking, premium-quality software instrument, developed to help you create world-class music and sound design. Delve into the iconic sound of FM synthesis, harness the power of spectral synthesis, embrace a new approach to modulation, create and customise unique envelopes, be inspired by new effects and much more.

Absolute Collection also comes with FM Lab, your all-in-one FM synthesizer for HALion. Modern, intuitive and powerful, FM Lab allows you to design sounds from the ground up. Assign modulations via drag and drop, use different oscillator presets or design complex algorithms in a fun way — it’s entirely up to you! Worried about programming? No problem — FM Lab comes with hundreds of cutting-edge presets, ranging from classic sounds with a new twist to some of the most contemporary and progressive FM sounds ever produced.

Tales is a beautifully recorded guitar, designed for every story you want to tell. It brings together contemporary acoustic sounds with additional guitar and synthesised textures to inspire every note you play. Recorded with open strings, muted notes and harmonics, like every great guitar Tales delivers instant inspiration every time you play it.

In the world of music and other audio technology, Steinberg has always pushed the envelope. Since its inception, the company has striven to deliver unprecedented, inspiring tools and workflow solutions for sound creatives and professionals. Every day they want to create something better than the day before. Because if they can, it means you can. Creator of the VST and ASIO standards, as well as other game-changing innovations, Steinberg created a success story which has cemented the foundation of today's experience and understanding in audio production, paving the way for a truly exciting future for music-makers.

Features

• More than 130 GB of instruments and 7,500 inspiring presets
• First-class sample libraries for bass, choir, orchestra and keys
• Includes HALion 7 featuring six different forms of synthesis, fast assignable modulations and effects with stellar precision when working with audio
• New instruments in Absolute 6 include FM Lab; your all-in-one FM synthesizer for HALion, and Tales; a beautifully recorded guitar designed for every story
• Features Backbone, Amped Elektra and Electric Bass instruments
• Includes extended sound libraries Sounds of Soul (for Retrologue 2), Polarities (for Padshop 2), Future Past Perfect (for Groove Agent 5)

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