HALion 5 vs. Sonic2

Man I’ve had it for months now, and I am still at the stage of using preset patches and bread & butters.

How do you get over the hump and into actually using it? I feel like I could probably get more out of even the standard sounds, if I was better capable of digging in deeper. I would like to use it for longer samples rather than throwing everything into Battery, even perhaps replacing dumping audio straight into the arrangement.

(I still can’t get over how nice it is to have my HSO library in here to layer over. But now I need to get dirty and make those into true KS combo sets.)