Steinberg VST Sampler HALion 3 Operation Manual

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Amplifier Velocity
This dial controls how much the volume is affected by velocity. Velocity 
is a value determined by how hard or soft you strike the keys on your 
keyboard. With Velocity set to 0%, the volume will be constant no mat-
ter how hard or soft you play. Increasing this value progressively will 
make the volume more and more sensitive to how hard or soft you play.
Panorama
The Panorama parameter sets the stereo position for the Program.
Tune/Glide...

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The LFOs
The parameters in the LFO section allow you to vary the frequency 
and the waveform of the two LFOs. The LFO section is described on 
page 116.
The Macro view area
In the middle section of the Macro page view there is a window area 
which can display “sub-views” of other pages in HALion.
By using the four buttons at the top of the section you can switch be-
tween displaying scaled down versions of the Global, Keyzone, Pro-
gram or Send effects page...

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The Options pop-up menu
Click this field to open a pop-up menu with the following options:
High/Mid/Low Quality
The Quality setting provides a way of balancing audio quality vs. con-
servation of computer power. 
• High Quality uses the highest sample rate, but also requires more CPU time. 
• Mid Quality uses less CPU power. Depending on the type of sounds you are 
using, this mode can provide adequate reproduction in many instances.
• Low Quality works with...

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Edit absolute/Edit relative 
This option determines whether the global settings you make in the 
Macro page view should set the changed parameter to an absolute 
value, or change values relative to the previously set value. 
Absolute/relative editing is explained in more detail on page 71.
Disk Streaming
This option allows you to specify the degree of disk streaming vs. pre-
loaded samples. This can also be set freely in the Options page view 
(Memory – Voice). 

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Editing in the Global page view 

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Introduction
This page view allows you to assign any Program in the Program Bank 
to any of the 16 Instrument slots in HALion. You can also make effect, 
output and MIDI channel assignments.  

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Settings in the Global page view
The Global page view is divided into two sections. To the left you can 
make various settings for the Instrument channel slots, to the right you 
can make effect settings. How to use the internal effects is described 
on page 147.
Selecting a Program
There are several ways you can select a Program for a channel slot:
•By using the Program pop-up menu for a channel slot.
Click the arrow in the Program column for the channel you...

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The last example involves two steps:
1.Click on a channel number in the “INS” (instrument) column to select 
the channel.
2.If you now click on a Program name in the Program List that is currently 
not assigned to any of HALion’s 16 channel slots, it will be assigned to 
the selected channel.
Selecting a MIDI channel
The “CH” pop-up allows you to select a MIDI channel for each chan-
nel slot. By default, the 16 channel slots are logically assigned to MIDI...

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Setting volume and pan
❐Note that the volume/pan settings (and the following parameters listed 
below) relate to the channel slots, not to the Programs assigned to the 
channel slots. Bear this in mind as Programs and samples also have set-
tings for volume/pan/transpose etc., which are independent from these.
You can make volume and pan settings for each channel in the corre-
sponding column. If you click in the respective value field, a slider ap-
pears,...

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Setting a velocity curve
In the Curve column you can select one of four velocity curves. Velo-
city governs how a sound parameter (e.g. volume) changes according 
to how hard or soft you strike a key.
❐When you [Ctrl]-click (Win)/[Command]-click (Mac) on the value fields 
for volume, panorama, key/velocity range, transposition or velocity 
curve, the parameters will be reset to the default values.
Selecting an output 
Clicking in the “Out” column for a channel...