Steinberg Studio Case VST Instruments Operation Manual

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Tips and tricks
The following sections provide a few useful tips on how to make good 
use of the many features in D’cota SE.
Deep modulations
The Controller strip in D’cota SE is extremely versatile, allowing you to 
modulate almost any parameter from a number of sources. Here are 
some examples:
Modulating Pan
Take advantage of the fact that the Pan parameter can be modulated 
like most other parameters! You could modulate it with an LFO (for 
continuous auto-pan...

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Making use of the envelopes
D’cota SE’s two envelopes can be put to good use – here are some 
examples:
•In the synthesis section, you could assign two different envelopes to 
the two oscillator level controls in the Mixer section.
This would let you have the oscillators enter gradually one by one, create multi-phase 
attacks, arpeggio-like chord or chase effects, etc.
•Similarly, you could assign an envelope to the Noise level.
This would let you add noise to the very...

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HALion SE 

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Introduction
HALion SE is the little brother of HALion 3.0, the professional 32-bit 
software sampler of Steinberg. It loads and plays all HALion format li-
braries designed for HALion and comes with a great all-purpose com-
poser library from Wizoo. You can tweak basic parameters such as 
filter cutoff, attack, decay or LFO speed.
Each HALion SE module that you load adds a high-quality software 
sampler with up to 24 voices and 4 channel multi mode to Cubase SE!
These...

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HALion SE overview
The following sections provide you with basic information about the 
HALion SE functions and settings.
How HALion SE plays samples
Unlike other samplers that have to load the entire samples into RAM, 
HALion SE can play back samples of virtually any length, regardless of 
the amount of RAM installed in your computer. This is because HALion 
SE can play back audio directly from the hard disk, similar to hard disk 
recording systems. 
Since...

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•You can load or save program banks containing up to 32 programs 
but also single programs from the File pop-up menu.
The corresponding functions are called “Load/Save Bank” and “Load/Save Instrument”. 
It is also possible to load banks, programs or individual samples via drag and drop (see 
page 139).
When you save your Cubase SE project file, the following information 
is stored:
•The number of HALion SE units used in the project.
•The bank and/or programs used.
•The...

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Working with programs
The HALion SE user interface.
•Click the down arrow to the right in the program selector. This brings 
up a pop-up menu with all program names of the current bank. 
Select the desired program by clicking on it.
•Programs cannot be selected using the program buttons in the VST 
Instruments rack (the arrow buttons to the right of the Edit button). 
Please use the program selector in the HALion SE window. 

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Loading individual programs
•You can use “Load Instrument” in the File pop-up menu to load a single 
program from disk. Programs have the extension “.fxp”. The program is 
loaded into the currently selected HALion SE channel and overwrites 
any previously loaded program.
For a better overview, only one channel at a time is visible in the HALion SE window.
Playing a program
•Check out the currently selected program by playing notes and chords 
on your MIDI keyboard. 
As...

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Saving a program
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the desired program.
2.Change the program settings as desired.
Read the corresponding sections of this chapter to find out what you can do with the 
various controls.
3.When you have finished tweaking, click the name in the program dis-
play and enter a new one via your computer keyboard.
You have three options to save an edited program:
•You can save it as a single program file, using the “Save Instrument” function...

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Global Commands context menu
You can open a Global Commands context menu by right-clicking 
(Win)/[Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) on the background (the dark gray area) of 
the control panel. 
Parameter Description
Clear All… This will remove all loaded programs. A warning message will 
be displayed.
Clear Current Program… This will remove the currently selected program.
Help This brings up the online help for HALion SE (in pdf-format). 
To be able to read it, you need to have the...