Steinberg Studio Case VST Instruments Operation Manual
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VST Instruments HALion SE 7 – 141 ENGLISH Automation and MIDI controllers The following sections provide information on automation options when using HALion SE within Cubase SE and on MIDI controllers. Recording dynamic control settings Proceed as follows to record dynamic control settings within the HALion SE window onto a Cubase SE track: 1.Open the MIDI-Filter Preferences in Cubase SE and switch off the “Sysex” Filter. In Cubase SE, this Filter is activated by default. By deactivating it, you enable Cubase SE to record SysEx data. If in doubt, refer to the chapter about System Exclusive Handling in the Getting into the Details document. It contains information on recording and editing SysEx data. 2.Create a separate empty MIDI track for the automation data that you wish to record. This way, if something goes wrong, you can simply delete the automation data and try again. 3.Set the Output of the track so that it sends data to the desired HALion SE channel. 4.Open the HALion SE window and make sure that the correct sound and channel are selected for automation and recording. 5.Press the Record button in Cubase SE to start recording. Dynamically change the control settings as desired. 6.Stop recording and rewind. Then start playback. The controls in the HALion SE window should now dynamically move and reflect the settings you have made.
VST Instruments 7 – 142 HALion SE Exporting HALion SE tracks to audio files You can export one or more HALion SE MIDI tracks to an audio file, e. g. to save processor resources. To do this, solo all tracks that you wish to export (or mute all the other tracks) and select “Audio Mixdown…” from the Export submenu on the File menu. A detailed description of the ex- port process for audio files can be found in the Operation Manual. Using MIDI controllers You can use MIDI controller data to control and edit HALion SE, e.g. from an external MIDI hardware control unit or a MIDI Master keyboard. You can also graphically or numerically create MIDI Controller data in an Editor (e.g. the List Editor in Cubase SE). The following table shows you the MIDI controller numbers accepted by HALion SE: HALion SE Control Controller Cent 90 Glide 05 Octave 28 Semitone 31 Filter Cutoff 74 Resonance 71 Amp Amount 70 Amp Envelope Attack 73 Amp Envelope Decay 79 Amp Envelope Sustain 75 Amp Envelope Release 72 Amp Velocity Amount 19
VST Instruments HALion SE 7 – 143 ENGLISH Optimizing system performance With instruments applying disk streaming - like HALion SE - issues like glitches, drop-outs, high latency or slow performance are often caused by a misconfigured or under-equipped system. This section helps you to optimize your system performance and to solve problems. Get as much RAM as possible Depending on the library you use, HALion SE may have to deal with large samples. It can get them from two sources: RAM or hard disk. RAM is generally faster, easier to access and doesn’t have moving parts, so you should make sure to get as much sample content as possible into RAM. Rule of thumb: There’s nothing like too much RAM when working with sample-based instruments. Use a dedicated hard disk for samples If you have both your audio tracks and the HALion SE content on one hard disk, it is likely that they get in each other’s way because the hard disk has to stream both at a time. We strongly recommend that you use separate disks for samples and audio tracks. Defragment your hard disk frequently On a full or not regularly maintained hard disk it is likely that free space is divided among a multitude of fragments. When installing large librar- ies such as the Wizoo Composer Library, these files may be segmented and spread over the entire disk. This means that the read head of the hard disk has to do a lot of jumping in order to play back the files when streaming from disk – leading to decreased disk performance. You can optimize your hard disk’s performance by defragmenting the hard disk directly after installation of HALion SE. Windows XP pro- vides a defragmentation tool. On the Macintosh, you can use tools like Norton Utilities for that purpose.
VST Instruments 7 – 144 HALion SE Dropouts, clicks, glitches Dropouts, clicks or glitches can have many reasons, here are the most “popular” ones: •If dropouts are accompanied by a red hard disk streaming indicator (LED bot- tom left in the HALion SE window) , the hard disk cannot follow up. Reasons can be manifold. For example the hard disk is too slow or just too fragmented, or you play both audio tracks and strings from one hard disk. First try defrag- menting your disk. If this doesn’t help, try to change the disk streaming setting in HALion SE (see the section “Disk Streaming settings” on page 138). •If dropouts occur on every note you play and/or are accompanied by unusu- ally high CPU load, it is likely that the latency of your audio card is set too low. Try increasing the latency (buffer size) in the audio card’s system settings. •Also when you play multiple voices in multiple channels, the strain put on the hard disk can just be too much. Try a lower disk load setting (see the section “Disk Streaming settings” on page 138) to solve the problem. Get help from the developers and other users Apart from the Steinberg support, there is a very active and helpful VST instrument forum at www.cubase.net where you can find help and exchange info and solutions with other users of HALion SE as well as with the developers. Point your browser to www.cubase.net and click “VST Instruments and Virtual Effects” to get to the VST instrument forum.
VST Instruments HALion SE 7 – 145 ENGLISH Composer Set Documentation HALion SE comes with a Composer Set library from Wizoo, the com- pany who has developed The Grand, Virtual Guitarist and other Stein- berg VSTis. This composer set is a great starting point and has been specifically designed to perfectly complement the other four instru- ments in the Studio Case. Program Name Description Mod Wheel 01 Keyboards 01 Stage Piano Expensive sounding electric piano; 4 layer velocity switch.Tremolo 02 Stage Piano JazzJazzy Soft Expensive Sounding Electric Piano; 4 Layer Velocity Switch.Tremolo 03 Stage Piano AutopanAutopanning between the two stereo channels created by LFO.Panning 04 Stage Piano AutowahAutowah created by LFO modulating Cutoff.Opens Cutoff 05 B3 Rotor Slow-Fast MWPercussive B3 organ with Slow to Fast Leslie. Fades between slow & fast Leslie 06 B3 Dry Dry percussive B3 organ. Use with Rotor simulation plug-ins etc.Vibrato 07 Clavinet Funky Clavinet. Tremolo 08 Clavinet Wah Autowah created by Filter Envelope.Opens Cutoff 09 Harpsichord Natural Stereo Harpsichord Vibrato 10 Heaven Harp Percussive Chorus Arpeggio Harpsichord.Vibrato 11 Stage Piano & B3 Rotor CombiElectric Piano and B3 with Leslie Layer.Fades between slow & fast Leslie Keyboards.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Keyboards bank
VST Instruments 7 – 146 HALion SE 02 Pitched Percussion 01 Glockenspiel Bright Glockenspiel. Play in high Register.Vibrato 02 Vibraphone Vibrato 03 Marimba Vibrato 04 Kalimba Vibrato 05 Tipi Percussive Metallic Synth. Good for Arpeggios.Vibrato 06 Dream Vibes Soft Mellow Vibes Pad with harmony overtone.Tremolo Pitched Percus- sion.fxbThis bank loads all programs in the Pitched Percussion bank 03 Guitars 01 Nylon Guitar & HammerClassical Nylon Guitar with switch to whole tone hammers in high velocity & fret noises above C5.Vibrato 02 Nylon Guitar & HarmonicsClassical Nylon Guitar with switch to harmonics in high ve- locity & fret noises above C5.Vibrato 03 Nylon Gtr HarmonicsClassical Nylon Guitar harmonics.Vibrato 04 Steel String GuitarSteel String Pick Acoustic Guitar. Vibrato 05 Steel String Guitar & HarmonicsSteel String Pick Acoustic Guitar with switch to harmonics in high velocity.Vibrato 06 Steel String Gtr HarmonicsSteel String Guitar Harmonics. Vibrato 07 Clean Guitar Clean Electric Pick Guitar. Vibrato 08 Clean Guitar & HarmonicsClean Electric Pick Guitar with switch to harmonics in high velocity.Vibrato Program Name Description Mod Wheel
VST Instruments HALion SE 7 – 147 ENGLISH 09 Clean Gtr HarmonicsClean Electric Pick Guitar Harmonics.Vibrato 10 12 String Guitar 12 String Acoustic Pick Guitar. Vibrato 11 Solo Guitar Distorted Electric Lead Guitar. Vibrato 12 Dream Guitar Rich Detuned Stereo Clean Electric Guitar.Vibrato Guitars.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Guitars bank 04 Basses 01 Acoustic Bass Fingered Upright Acoustic Bass.Vibrato 02 Electric Finger BassKen Smith 6 String Finger Bass with Hard and Soft Velocity Lay- ers & Deadnotes & Stops below A#0.Vibrato 03 Electric Pick BassElectric Pick Bass. Vibrato 04 Electric Slap BassElectric Slap Bass. Vibrato 05 Fretless Bass Electric Fretless Bass. Vibrato 06 Jaco Bass Wide Stereo Chorus Electric Fretless Bass.Vibrato Basses.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Basses bank 05 Strings 01 Legato Strings Full Range Legato Strings Section.Vibrato 02 Tremolo Strings Full Range Tremolo Strings Section. Fades Volume 03 Spiccato Strings Full Range Attacking Spiccato Strings Section. Fades Volume 04 Pizz Strings Full Range Pizzicato Strings Section. Fades Volume Program Name Description Mod Wheel
VST Instruments 7 – 148 HALion SE 05 Legato & Tremolo Comb MWFade between Legato and Tremolo strings sections.Fades between Legato and Tremolo 06 Legato & Spic- cato Combi MWSwitch between Legato and Spiccato strings sections.Switches be- tween Legato and Spiccato 07 Spiccato & Pizz Combi MWSwitch between Legato and Pizzicato strings sections.Switches be- tween Spiccato and Pizzicato 08 Legato & Spic- cato LayerLayer of Legato and Spiccato strings sectionsVibrato 09 Legato Pad Soft Rich String Pad with Cutoff on Mod Wheel and Velocity.Opens Cutoff Strings.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Strings bank 06 Choirs 01 Church Choir Wide Aaaah Church Choir. Vibrato 02 Digital Choir Breathy Bright Choir. Vibrato 03 Venus Sweep Slow Attack Bright Swoosh Pad. Harder Velocity increases Brightness and Attack Time.Opens Cutoff 04 Underwater ChoirRich Wide Soft Pad with Slow Attacking Breath Pulse.Cutoff LFO Choirs.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Choirs bank 07 Brass 01 Brass Octave SectionBig Thick Brass Section. Vibrato 02 Hybrid Horns Synth Horns Section. Vibrato 03 Brass Stab Fall Brass Section Strike and Pitch Bend Down.Vibrato 04 French Horns SectionBright French Horns Section. Vibrato Program Name Description Mod Wheel
VST Instruments HALion SE 7 – 149 ENGLISH 05 Tenor Sax Soft Soft and Warm Solo Tenor Sax with Light Vibrato.Vibrato 06 Big Brass Lead Layer of Big Thick Brass Sec- tion and French Horns Section.Vibrato 07 Jericho Pad Epic Horns for Soft Pads or Bright Sections.Vibrato Brass.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Brass bank 08 Digital Synths 01 Waldorf Pad Soft Wide Rich Pad. Opens Cutoff 02 Velo Poly Percussive Poly Sound. Vibrato 03 80s Sequencer Metallic Percussive Sound. Useful for Arpeggios & Rhyth- mic Lines.Vibrato 04 PeePeeGee Rich Wide Bells. Vibrato 05 Propaganda Metallic Chorusing FM Sound. Vibrato 06 Shine Thick Sparkling Pad. LFO Panning 07 Stryngi Breathy Poly Synth. Vibrato 08 Sweepa Sweeping Bells Wavetable. Vibrato 09 Syncerator Thick and Nasty Fuzzy Digital Synth.LFO Panning 10 Strato Tron Wide Chorusing Bell Texture. Vibrato Digital Synths.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Digital Synths bank 09 Loops 01 Loops All 61 Drum Loops at various tempos starting at C1. Tempo increases from left to right.Reduces Cutoff 02 Loops Slow TempoThe slower Tempo Loops from program 01. Starting At C1.Reduces Cutoff Program Name Description Mod Wheel
VST Instruments 7 – 150 HALion SE 3rd party libraries HALion SE loads and plays all libraries available in HALion format. You can obtain a vast range of sample media in HALion format and use them within HALion SE. 03 Loops Medium TempoThe medium Tempo Loops from program 01. Starting at C1.Reduces Cutoff 04 Loops Fast TempoThe fast Tempo Loops from program 01. Starting at C1.Reduces Cutoff Loops.fxb This bank loads all programs in the Loops bank 10 Percussion 01 Latin Perc Full SetFull GM Latin Percussion Set. 02 Latin Perc Drums & WoodDrums and Wooden Elements from program 1. 03 Latin Perc MetallicMetallic Elements from program 1. 04 Latin Perc ShakenShaken Elements from program 1. Latin Percussion.fxbThis bank loads all programs in the Latin Percussion bank Program Name Description Mod Wheel