Steinberg VST Sampler HALion 3 Operation Manual

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Using the thumbnail display
The thumbnail display contains a small overview of the whole wave-
form. By dragging from the left or right edge of the thumbnail display 
you zoom in on the waveform. 
•Dragging from the left edge to the right increases the zoom level and 
shifts the visible range towards the end of the waveform.
The highlighted area inside the blue rectangle indicates the area of the waveform cur-
rently in view.
•Dragging from the right edge to...

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Setting a sustain loop
A sustain loop determines which range within a sample should be 
looped when you hold down a key. To set a sustain loop, proceed as 
follows:
1.Make sure that the Loop button is activated.
If it isn’t, click on it.
2.Click in the waveform and keep the mouse button pressed.
The pointer takes on the shape of a double arrow indicating that you can drag in both 
directions to create a loop area. If the sample already has a set sustain loop...

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The Loop start and end points can automatically snap to zero cross-
ings, if the waveform button at the top right of the page view is acti-
vated. A zero crossing is where the wave crosses the zero level axis. 
This helps to avoid clicks and pops when setting loops. If you don’t 
want the loop to begin and end at zero crossings you can disable this 
function by deactivating the waveform button.
Crossfading the loop (Smooth)
If you press [Alt] while clicking in...

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Setting the release loop
The release loop determines which range within the sample should 
loop after the key is released. Setting the release loop is done using the 
same methods as for the sustain loop, except that you should have the 
release loop button activated instead. When you switch to the release 
loop mode, the sustain loop becomes dark. The currently selected loop 
is always shown in light blue. In the thumbnail display, the sustain loop 
is dark...

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Loop tuning
You can tune the sustain and release loop independently up or down a 
semitone (in cent steps) by using the loop tuning parameters.
Loop context menu items
[Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (Win) in the waveform window 
brings up a context menu with the following items:
Option Description
Rename… Allows you to rename the current sample.
Zoom to Loop Zooms the view to the currently selected loop.
Zoom to Start/End 
OffsetsZooms the view to the...

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Select Loop Selects the sustain loop.
Select Release
LoopSelects the release loop.
Locate Start Loop Focuses the view on the start of the current loop.
Locate End Loop Focuses the view on the end of the current loop.
Undo Allows you to undo the last Cut, Copy, Paste, or Delete action.
Select All Selects the whole sample as the current loop.
Sample Info At the bottom of the menu, information about the currently view 
selected sample is shown.  Option Description 

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Editing in the Sound page view 

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Introduction
This page view contains the main sound related parameters for tweak-
ing your samples, by applying filters, envelopes, modulation etc. The 
parameters can either be applied to a Program as a whole or to se-
lected samples. 
The Sound page view is divided into an upper and a lower half. The 
lower half always contains the filter section (DCF), the amplifier sec-
tion (DCA) and the LFOs. 
The upper half of the Sound page view can display one of...

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The filter section (DCF)
The filter section has the same basic parameters as described for the 
Macro page view, see page 47. The main difference is that in the 
Sound page view, you can make filter settings for all or all selected 
samples in a Program.
In addition, the filter section here contains three parameters not 
present in the Macro page view:
Velocity
Normally this is set to 50 %. This will produce a brighter timbre if keys 
are struck harder, like...

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The amplifier section (DCA)
The amplifier section contains a number of parameters only available 
in this page view. Again, all or all selected samples are affected.
•The Env. Amount, Velocity and Volume parameters are the same as 
described in the Macro page view chapter, see page 50.
Panorama/Spread
The Panorama parameter sets the stereo position for the currently 
selected samples.
Spread is an automatic panner. The function distributes the signal of 
each...