Wow, thanks for that list! Much appreciated!

– AdnansPad (https://www.audiobombs.com/items/1649/adnanspad)
– Beat-Roehrich (Marco Scherer for the BEAT Magazine)
– JayP8_Demo (jupiterbyjay https://jupiterbyjay.com/)
– Wood-buccA (https://www.audiobombs.com/items/1656/wood-bucca)

many sample fuel : https://www.samplefuel.com/
– CYCLE-LITE Library (Sample Fuel)
– DROP CRE8 Library (Sample Fuel)
– Guitar Harmonics Essential
– Pad Motion-LITE (Sample Fuel)
– Poly CRE8 Demo Track Spark (Sample Fuel)
– POLY-LITE (Sample Fuel)
– REVOLUTION-CRE8 LITE (Sample Fuel)
– WAVE-LITE (Sample Fuel)

Thanks a lot! It was tricky to find free stuff on their site. Or maybe i’m just not too smart with contemporary designs =)

Oh,
and I found these free instruments for Halion / Sonic / Sonic SE:

https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/vst/cinematique_instruments/guitar_harmonics_essential.html#c429076

https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/vst/cinematique_instruments/alto_glockenspiel_essential.html

Sure,
Halion is Steinberg’s equivalent to Native Instruments Kontakt – a full fledged sampling instrument that can also be used just as a player for libraries. Halion Sonic and Halion Sonic SE are just the player functionality without the in-depth sample editing.

Halion Sonic comes free with Steinberg Cubase (including a library), while Sonic SE can be downloaded for free by anyone.

Halion Sonic SE (the one that can be downloaded for free) does not come with any content as far as I know. It’s intended to be used with “Halion Expansions” (basically the equivalent to Kontakt libraries). Most Halion Expansions are available commercially from the Steinberg shop. Their are some pretty good instrument libraries, like their great Electric Bass library, which is unfortunately a bit overpriced and their Vibrant Electric Piano library:

https://new.steinberg.net/electric-bass/
https://new.steinberg.net/vibrant/

Sonic SE can also load libraries created by users who have the full version of Halion and who share their creations. As far as I know, there aren’t too many free Halion libraries around. The one in the article is probably one of very few that exist.

From my experience most free libraries are created in
1. Kontakt format (not Kontakt Player format, but in the format that requires the full version of Kontakt),
2. EXS24 format (works in Logic and also with the free TX16wx sampler) or
3. .sfz format (a free open format that allows easy creation of mappings with a text editor and can be played back with the free Sforzando player plugin).