Steinberg Halion 5 Manual

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MIDI Editing and ControllersAutomation and Factory MIDI Controller Assignments
Restoring the Factory MIDI Controller Assignment
To restore the factory MIDI controller assignments, open the Options editor, and in the 
MIDI controller section, click “Reset to Factory”.
Automation and Factory MIDI Controller Assignments
The following parameters show the controller numbers and names of the default 
factory MIDI controller assignment.
*Only available if the corresponding AUX Send effect is loaded.
ÖThe...

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Mixing and Routing
The Audio Bus Architecture
The audio signals of zones, layers, programs, and slots are managed via audio busses. 
The slots always have one dedicated bus while programs can have one or more audio 
busses that mix the audio signals from the layers and zones they contain. Layers do 
not have to have an audio bus. However, you can optionally create audio busses for 
layers at any time, for example to create a submix of the zones they contain. You can 
load insert effects on any of...

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Mixing and RoutingThe Audio Bus Architecture
AUX Busses
You need an AUX bus to route individual audio signals from zones or audio busses to 
AUX effects. HALion provides four global AUX busses and four local AUX busses that 
you can add for individual layers. To set up an AUX effect, load an insert effect into 
one of the effect slots of the AUX bus. To hear the effect, raise the send level of a 
zone, route the output of a zone or your audio bus to the AUX bus, or set up a send in 
the effect rack...

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Mixing and RoutingThe Audio Bus Architecture
Changing the Output Assignments of Zones
1.Select the zones in the Program Tree.
2.Open the Sound editor, show the Amplifier section and open the AUX tab.
3.From the Output pop-up menu, select a plug-in output or AUX bus.
ÖIn addition, you can use the send level knobs of the zones to route individual audio 
signals to insert effects on AUX busses.
Automatic Bus Width Adaptation
HALion is constantly monitoring the width of all busses in the signal path and...

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Mixing and RoutingThe HALion Mixer
Automatic Output Connection
HALion allows you to select outputs in many places. You can find output selectors in 
zones, layer busses, AUX busses, and slots. Each output can be freely named and the 
output selectors reflect these names.
Different programs on different slots may contain output configurations that are not 
available, because busses with the required names are not present in a HALion multi.
In case that connections cannot be established due to...

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Mixing and RoutingThe HALion Mixer
The Toolbar Options
Displaying Different Mixer Channels
To define which mixer channels to display, click one of the show buttons.
Expanding and Collapsing all Mixer Channels
•To expand all mixer channels at once, click the right arrow button.
Expanded mixer channels provide direct access to the insert/send effects.
•To collapse all mixer channels at once, click the left arrow button.
Collapsed mixer channels only show the most important controls like level, pan,...

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Mixing and RoutingThe HALion Mixer
The Mixer Channel Strip Controls
All busses have a similar mixer channel, with a few exceptions. For example, the output 
busses do not have an output pop-up menu. The various types of channels are using 
different label colors:
Mute
Mutes the bus.
Solo
Mutes all other busses and lets you hear the solo bus only. You can put several 
channels into solo mode to hear all of them.
Level
The level fader allows you to adjust the volume of the bus. All busses allow an...

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Mixing and RoutingThe HALion Mixer
Peak Level
The peak level meter indicates the highest level on the bus in dB. To reset, click the 
peak level.
Channel Label
By default, the channel label shows the name of the bus. Double-click the label to 
enter a name.
Output
Each channel can be routed to various busses. Click the output pop-up menu and 
select an output.
The output busses represent the audio interface to the host application or the audio 
hardware. Therefore, these channels cannot be routed...

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Auron
Introduction
The Auron synth uses granular synthesis with up to eight grain streams to produce 
oscillator waveforms. With the integrated arpeggiator and step sequencer, you can 
create anything from sequencer lines to stepped chords.
The granular oscillator is followed by a multi-mode filter that offers a large number of 
different filter shapes. The filter can be modulated by modulation sources like the 
keyboard, velocity, and LFO, but also by the controller lanes of the step sequencer, for...

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AuronThe Osc Page
The Osc Page
On this page, you can make settings for the grain oscillator.
Position
You can set the playback position of the grains manually. For example, at a setting of 
50
 %, the playback position is in the middle of the sample. The playback position is 
updated with every new grain.
Position Random
Selects a random playback position within a certain range around the current position. 
At a setting of 100
 %, the playback position jumps to a random position between the 
start...