Steinberg VST Sampler HALion 3 Operation Manual

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Editing in the Keyzone page
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Introduction
The Keyzone page view takes care of all your sample mapping, layer-
ing and velocity scaling needs. A graphic and intuitive user interface 
makes it very easy to overview all the samples in a Program. This 
chapter covers all the operations possible in the Keyzone page view, 
but also describes operations involving the Program List, and general 
file handling issues such as importing samples.  

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Window overview
When you have loaded a Program, the Keyzone page view displays all 
the samples, mapped out horizontally over the Keyboard so you can 
clearly see what keys have samples mapped to them. The range across 
the keyboard that a sample is mapped to is called a key zone. 
A sample in the Keyzone window. Note that the black and white keys are also outlined 
in the Keyzone window background. This makes it easier to accurately scale and 
pinpoint key...

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How samples are displayed
•Samples are colored in 4 different shades of blue according to the ve-
locity range; dark blue/black at the lowest velocity range (0-32) with 
lighter shades of blue at each successive range.
•Samples that are located in the Program folder have orange/green 
borders and orange handles when selected.
See page 67 for a description of selected and view selected samples.  

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•Samples that are located in a subfolder of the Program folder have vio-
let borders and orange handles when selected.
See page 67 for a description of selected and view selected samples.
•Overlapping samples are colored in darker shades of blue in the over-
lapping range.   

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Selecting samples
The following methods can be used to select samples in the Keyzone 
page view:
•Clicking on a sample selects it.
•Use [Ctrl] (Win)/[Command] (Mac) + click to select several samples.
Click somewhere in the window (but not on a sample) to deselect all samples.
•Draw a selection rectangle by clicking and dragging in the window.
All samples encompassed by the rectangle will be selected.
Drawing a selection rectangle.
•You can select samples by...

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About “view selected” and “Edit selected” samples
If several samples are selected, one sample is always “view selected”. 
It is this sample’s parameters that will be shown when viewing any of 
the page views that show the settings for one sample at a time (spe-
cifically the Loop and Sound page views). View selected samples are 
displayed as follows:
• If the sample resides in the Program folder, the view selected sample has or-
ange/green borders and other...

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•Edit selected but not view selected samples have orange borders and 
are highlighted in the Program list.
•An edit and view selected sample has orange/green borders in the 
Keyzone, and is highlighted with a light blue border in the Program list.   

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•View selected but not edit selected samples have turquoise borders 
in the Keyzone window and a light blue border in the Program List.
The currently view selected sample name is also displayed in the Sam-
ple selector field. You can also use the Sample selector pop-up to se-
lect another sample, but this will deselect all other selected samples.   

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About the “ALL/SELECT” status button
Virtually all editing operations in HALion depend on the “ALL/SE-
LECT” edit mode setting at the top of the Program List. This setting 
governs whether the editing will apply to all samples in a Program or 
only to selected samples or sample sub-folders. You toggle between 
the two edit modes by clicking the lower left button (it either reads 
“ALL” or “SELECT”). 
The color of the Pitch/Modulation controller also serves as...