Steinberg Halion 3 Manual
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Included Instruments Model C 131Arp Page This page contains the same parameters as the FlexPhraser. RELATED LINKS FlexPhraser on page 76 Model C Model C is a classic tonewheel organ emulation with 9 drawbars and 3 additional drawbars for the percussion. Model C comes with an integrated and highly configurable rotary effect, as well as an amplifier emulation using VST Amp technology. The effect section provides additional effects, such as phaser, delay, and reverb, and also offers a ring modulator which allows to add non- harmonic tones. Model C contains four pages: Organ, Rotary, Amp, and FX. •To open a page, click the corresponding button in the top section of the window. Organ Page
Included Instruments Model C 132Drawbars The main drawbars on the left adjust the levels of the individual tonewheels. The three drawbars on the right adjust the levels of the tonewheels that are used for percussion. Rotary Allows you to switch from fast to slow speaker rotation. In the middle position, rotation is stopped. On the Rotary page, you can make detailed settings for the effect. Attack Adjusts the attack time of the organ sound. Typically, the attack is very short, but you can set longer times to create pad-like sounds. Release Adjusts the release time of the organ sound. Typically, the release time is very short, but you can set longer times to achieve a slow fade out of the sound when a key is released. Velocity Determines the influence of the velocity on the level of the organ sound. Key On Click/Key Off Click Electromechanical organs produce short noise signals when a note is triggered and when it is released. The level of these clicks is set here. Vibrato Click the pedal button to activate the integrated vibrato effect. If it is activated, you can select a type using the control on the right. Rotary/Amp The organ signal is sent in parallel to the rotary speaker and to the internal amp. This control allows you to specify how the signal is distributed between these two destinations. •If you turn the control all the way to the left, the signal is sent only to the rotary speaker. All the way to the right, it is sent only to the amp. Percussion Click the pedal button to activate the percussion signal. The following percussion parameters are available:
Included Instruments Model C 133•Steal 1' – Typically, on an electromechanical organ, the 1' drawbar is not available when percussion is activated. To prevent this, deactivate the Steal 1' option. •Poly – Typically, percussion in drawbar organs is monophonic, that is, when you play a key, the percussion envelope is triggered for this note. As long as the key is held, no new percussion can be retriggered. If you play a legato section, for example, percussion is only applied to the very first note or chord. Percussion can only be retriggered after all notes are released. To trigger the percussion with every new note, activate Poly. •Level adjusts the loudness of the percussion signal. Rotary Page The settings on this page only have an effect on the sound when signals are sent to the rotary effect using the Rotary/Amp dial on the Organ page. The Rotary effect on this page has the same parameters as the included Rotary effect, except for Input and Color. RELATED LINKS Rotary on page 238
Included Instruments Model C 134Amp Page The settings on this page only have an effect on the sound if signals are sent to the amp using the Rotary/Amp dial on the Organ page. The parameters correspond to those of the VST Amp effect, with reduced microphone and microphone position options. RELATED LINKS VST Amp on page 227 FX Page Ring Modulator
Included Instruments Model C 135On/Off Activates/Deactivates the ring modulator effect. LFO Freq Sets the frequency of the LFO for modulating the frequency of the sine oscillator. LFO Depth Sets the intensity of the LFO modulation of the sine oscillator frequency. Sine Freq Sets the frequency of the sine oscillator. Mix Sets the ratio between the dry and the wet signal. Phaser On/Off Activates/Deactivates the Phaser effect. Rate Sets the frequency of the phase modulation in Hertz. Depth Sets the intensity of the phase modulation. Feedback Adds resonances to the effect. Higher settings produce a more pronounced effect. Mix Sets the ratio between the dry and the wet signal. Delay
Included Instruments Model C 136On/Off Activates/Deactivates the Delay effect. Delay Mode With this dial, you can switch between the three available delay modes: •St (Stereo) – This mode has two delays in parallel, one for the left and one for the right audio channel, each with a feedback path of its own. •Cross – This mode has two delays with cross feedback. Cross feedback means that the delay of the left channel is fed back into the right delay and vice versa. •PP (Ping-Pong) – This mode mixes the left and right input and sends it to hard-panned left and right delays. This way, the echoes bounce like a ping- pong ball between left and right in the stereo panorama. Delay Time Sets the overall time for the left and right delay in milliseconds. Feedback Sets the overall amount of feedback for the left and right delay. Feedback means the output of the delay is fed back to its input. At a setting of 0 %, you hear only one echo. At a setting of 100 %, the echoes repeat endlessly. Mix Sets the ratio between the dry and the wet signal. Reverb On/Off Activates/Deactivates the Reverb effect. Reverb Type Use this dial to switch between the available reverb types: Spring, Plate, and Hall. Time Allows you to set the reverb time in seconds. Predelay Controls how much time passes before the reverb is applied. This allows you to simulate larger spaces by increasing the time it takes for first reflections to reach the listener.
Included Instruments HALiotron 137Mix Sets the ratio between the dry and the wet signal. HALiotron HALiotron emulates the sound generation of the pre-digital sampling era. Before the introduction of digital samplers, original instrument sounds were created by playing a pre-recorded tape for every key. HALiotron comes with seven different tapes from these days, which can be blended to create sound mixtures. In addition to its classic archetype, HALiotron offers a set of the most important synthesis parameters, allowing you to vary the shape of the sound. Furthermore, you can play sounds dynamically by controlling filter and amp via velocity. Main Page Loop On/Off Set this to On if you want the notes to be played using looped versions of the underlying samples and to Off if you want the notes to stop when the tape reaches its end. Volume Adjusts the main volume of the sound. Speed Adjusts the speed of the tape playback. If this is set to Slow, the samples are played back an octave lower. Cutoff Adjusts the cutoff frequency of the built-in low-pass filter. Pitch Adjusts the tuning of the sound. When you combine several HALiotron presets, this can be used to make the sound richer.
Included Instruments HALiotron 138A, B, C Click here to select one of the included tapes for each dial position. Use the dial to blend seamlessly between the tapes. Attack Adjusts the attack time of the sound. Release Adjusts the release time of the sound. Velocity Controls the influence of the velocity on the level of the sound. Pitchbend Up/Pitchbend Down Determines the range for the modulation that is applied when you move the pitchbend wheel. Coarse Tune Adjusts the sound in semitone steps. This allows you to play intervals with multiple layered HALiotron sounds. Filter Page Resonance Adjusts the resonance of the low-pass filter. Velocity Sets the influence of the velocity on the level of the sound. Env Amount Adjusts the influence of the filter envelope on the cutoff frequency. KYB Adjusts the cutoff modulation from the keyboard, that is, cutoff key follow.
Included Instruments B-Box 139Attack Controls the attack time of the filter envelope. Decay Controls the decay time of the filter envelope. Sustain Controls the sustain level of the filter envelope. B-Box B-Box provides you with a veritable drum computer inside HALion Sonic. It comes with 13 instrument lanes that can make use of up to 128 different sounds. You can set up your drum patterns, create variations, and modify each drum sound using a low-pass filter and several distortion modes. B-Box contains three pages: Pattern, Mix, and Aux. •To open a page, click the corresponding button in the top section of the window. Pattern Page The Pattern page is where you create and edit the drum patterns. It gives you access to the pattern editor as well as to some of the most important sound parameters. The pattern editor section in the center of the window allows you to create and edit drum patterns. •To specify the number of steps for a pattern, drag the small triangle in the lower part of the pattern display. The maximum length is 16 steps.
Included Instruments B-Box 140•To change the drum sound for a lane, set a new value in the Sound column. You can choose between up to 128 drum sounds, depending on the selected drum instrument. •To preview a drum sound, click the trigger button to the right of the instrument name. •To add drum steps to the pattern, click on the step fields in the pattern editor. To add drum steps for all fields on a lane in one go, hold down Shift and click on a field. •To mute or solo individual lanes, click the corresponding Mute and Solo buttons. •To set up the velocity for a step, click it and drag up or down or use the mouse wheel. A step can be set to low, medium, or high velocity. To change the velocity of all steps in a lane at the same time, hold down Shift and use the mouse. NOTE This function inserts drum steps for every step field on the lane and sets it to the same velocity. If you want to use only several steps of this lane, you must modify the velocity separately for each step. •To remove a step, click it. To remove all steps, hold down Shift-Ctrl/Cmd and click a step. Editing the Entire Pattern •To load a pattern, click in the field below the editor and select it from the pop-up menu. •To move all steps of the pattern one step to the left or right, click Shift Pattern Left or Shift Pattern Right . This is useful if you have created a pattern that sounds the way you want but does not start on the first beat, for example. •To mirror the pattern around its middle step, click Reverse Pattern . •To copy all steps in the current pattern and insert them behind the current steps, click Duplicate Pattern . NOTE The maximum number of steps in a pattern is 16. If you select Duplicate Pattern and the resulting pattern would be longer than 16 steps, new steps are inserted until the maximum length is reached. •To remove all steps in a pattern, click Clear Pattern . Setting Up the Drum Sounds With the controls to the left and right of the pattern editor, you can make settings for the selected drum instrument. Coarse Adjusts the tuning of the instrument in semitone steps.