Steinberg Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set Operation Manual

Michael Ruf, Heiko Bischoff
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Welcome
The Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set provides additional high-quality content for VST instruments, expanding 
the available sound libraries with new VST Sound presets. 
This document describes the parameters and the presets made available by this VST Sound Instrument Set. The sound 
set can be used by plug-ins based on the HALion engine – currently the latest versions of HALion Sonic and HALion So
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nic SE.
Key command conventions
Many of the key commands mentioned in this document use...

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Editing program parameters
All programs included in the Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set come with a Macro page, giving you access to 
the parameters that are relevant for the instrument set. This page is available in HALion Sonic and HALion Sonic SE.
The Macro page is divided into four sections. The top half contains the Voice, Filter, and Amp sections, and the bottom 
half shows the StepModulator, which is used to add rhythmic modulations to the sounds.
Editing programs in HALion Sonic
In...

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Parameter descriptions
Voice section
In the Voice section, the following parameters are available:
Mono
Switches between monophonic and polyphonic playback. If Mono is deactivated, playback is polyphonic.
Polyphony
Sets the upper limit for the number of notes you can play in polyphonic mode (up to 128 notes).
Unison
Allows you to trigger multiple voices when playing single notes. When activated, the following parameters are available:
Filter section
Internally, the programs of the Hypnotic Dance VST...

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Amp section
In the Amp section, the following parameters are available:
Level
Adjusts the level of the program. If you add distortion to the filter by increasing the Drive parameter, you may have to ad-
just the level to compensate for an increase in gain.
Attack
Increases or decreases the attack time of the amplifier envelope. Positive values decrease the attack time.
Release
Increases or decreases the release time of the amplifier envelope. Positive values decrease the release time.
StepModulator...

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•Draw symmetric ramps by [Shift]-[Alt]/[Option]-clicking and drawing a line.
•Increment or decrement the level of the selected step using the up and down arrow keys.
By default, steps are incremented/decremented in steps of 1 %. Hold [Shift] to increment/decrement the selected step in steps of 0.1 %.
•Select the previous or next step using the left and right arrow keys.
Sync
Synchronizes the steps to the tempo of the host application. The following options are available:
Frequency
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Slope
Determines whether the transitions between steps occur as jumps or ramps. The following settings are available:
Amount
When Slope is set to Rising, Falling, or All, the Amount parameter determines the time it takes to ramp from one step to 
another. The higher the setting, the smoother the transition.
OptionRepresentationDescription
Off---All transitions occur as jumps.
Rising////Rising transitions occur as ramps, falling transitions as jumps.
Falling\\\\Falling transitions occur as ramps, rising...

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Content listing
The Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set contains the following VST presets:
Allpass Pad MW.vstpreset
Analog Liner.vstpreset
Atmo BPF Pad MW.vstpreset
Basic Poly.vstpreset
Beast of Berlin.vstpreset
Big Bandpass MW.vstpreset
Big Dark Pad MW.vstpreset
Big Morph Pad LFO.vstpreset
Big Resonance.vstpreset
Big Tune Comp.vstpreset
Big Tune Pad MW.vstpreset
Bit Red Blaster.vstpreset
Bit Red Gates MW.vstpreset
Blind Date.vstpreset
BR+LP Strings.vstpreset
Brachial.vstpreset
Brite & Dirty...

10 Saw Acid 1.vstpreset
Saw Acid 2.vstpreset
Saw Distorted.vstpreset
Saw Lead Growl.vstpreset
Saw Legato.vstpreset
Saw Reduction.vstpreset
Saw Spider.vstpreset
SawSquare Bass.vstpreset
Self Osc Pad 1.vstpreset
Self Osc Pad 2.vstpreset
Self Rate Red MW.vstpreset
Short Pulse 2Osc.vstpreset
Short Pulse CM.vstpreset
Short Pulse PWM.vstpreset
Short Pulse SYNC.vstpreset
Short Pulse XOR.vstpreset
Short Punch.vstpreset
Short Saw CM.vstpreset
Short Saw Detune.vstpreset
Short Saw Octave.vstpreset
Short Saw...