Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce a new update for its HALion Symphonic Orchestra VST instrument that provides support for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista.

In addition, Steinberg has released a new sound bank with "light" versions of the orchestral instruments in order for customers using 32-bit versions of Windows to deploy more articulation and instruments too.

HALion Symphonic Orchestra is the latest Steinberg product to be made available in a 64-bit version, coming after the release of Cubase 5 for 64-bit Vista. Cubase 5 and HALion Symphonic Orchestra fully support VST Expression, a new technology that offers dramatically enhanced handling of large sample libraries.

The 64-bit update 1.5 and the new sound bank are available for free download for HALion Symphonic Orchestra users.

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