Steinberg VST Sampler HALion 3 Operation Manual

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10.Make sure the Enable button is activated.
11.Play a note repeatedly.
As you can see and hear, each note triggers a sample in each consecutive sample 
folder, and starts over after the last folder.
•You can add a step manually using the Add button, given that you 
have previously assigned a key switch for a folder.
•You can remove a step manually by selecting it (click in the Id column) 
and using the Remove button.
•You can change the playback direction of...

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The step envelope
The step envelope can be used to create stepped modulation patterns. 
Setting up
Before you can use the step envelope, it has to be assigned as a mod-
ulation source and be routed to a modulation destination.
Here follows a brief tutorial of how to set up the Step Envelope to 
control pitch:
1.Click the “MOD” button to the far left in the upper half of the Sound 
page view to open the Modulation view.
2.Select the Modulation sub-page by...

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7.Click and drag with the mouse inside the Step Envelope window.
As you can see, you can set different vertical values which will affect the pitch for each 
step. Each vertical bar represents a step in the pattern.
8.Make sure the Sync button is lit.
9.Pull down the Sync pop-up and select a 1/8 note value.
10.Play a note.
The pitch is altered according to the set pattern in 1/8 note steps (synced to the MIDI 
clock of your host application).
The pattern...

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Step Envelope parameters
Sync vs. “free running” modulation
•When Sync is disabled the tempo of the pattern will be “free running”.
When you click in the field next to the Sync button, a vertical slider is displayed. Drag 
the slider to set a new value.
•When Sync is enabled, the pattern will be synced to the host tempo 
and the set note value determines the length of each step.
Values between 1/1 to 1/256 can be used. If the “T” button is activated, triplet...

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Editing step values
Step values can be set in various different ways apart from clicking 
with the mouse:
• [Ctrl]-clicking on a step will reset it to default state.
• [Shift]-clicking enables moving all steps together.
• [Ctrl]+[Shift]-clicking resets all steps.
• [Alt]-clicking produces a line tool, which enables you to apply ramp curves.
Using the line tool.
Using the Snap option
If Snap is enabled, the step values will snap to a horizontal grid when 
set....

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Absolute vs. Center mode
•When Absolute mode is selected (the “Abs” field is ticked) you can 
set values from zero (blank step) and upward.
For pitch a blank step would correspond to the original pitch of the note you play and 
the maximum value would produce a pitch one octave higher.
•When Center mode is selected, zero is in the middle, and you can set 
bipolar values both below and above zero.
Thus (using pitch as an example), the range in this case would...

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Using the internal Effects
HALion features comprehensive effects processing, divided into three 
sections; Insert, Program Insert and Send effects. It is possible to cre-
ate very complex effects routing using one of up to four Insert effects, 
up to four serial Program Inserts, and up to four Send effects. Each 
Send effect output can also be routed to any of HALions virtual outputs.
The effect selection sections are available in the Macro, Global and 
Sound...

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To activate Program Inserts, proceed as follows:
1.With the FX view selected on the Sound page view, click the “Prog FX” 
button at the top of the window to open the Program Insert sub-page.
You can also open the Sound page view with the FX view selected by pressing 
[Shift]+[F12].
2.Decide whether you wish to apply the effect to the whole Program or 
to selected samples by selecting the corresponding edit mode (“Se-
lect” or “All”).
When Select edit mode is...

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4.Click the “Out” pop-up in the DCA section of the Sound page view 
and select the “Prog. FX” output.
When the option “Route automatically to Prog FX” on the Options page is enabled, all 
samples will be routed to the Prog. FX output automatically after you assign the first 
plugin slot.
5.When you play a few notes you should hear the effect!
6.Using the same general method, you can add Insert effects to the 
other slots.
•When you have activated several...

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Applying Send effects to selected samples
To apply Send effects to selected samples on the Sound page view, 
proceed as follows:
1.With the FX view selected, click the “Send FX” button at the top of 
the window to open the Send FX sub-page.
You can also open the Sound page view with the FX view selected by pressing 
[Shift]+[F12].
2.Click the down arrow in the Effects column for one of the four slots, 
and select an effect from the pop-up.
The effect is loaded...