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 the alternate samples by se-
lecting either Up, Down or Random mode.
Up plays the samples from the bottom of the list and up and then starts over, and vice 
versa for Down. Random plays the samples in a random order.
•You can also change the order of the list by using the Move Up/Move 
Down buttons.
•The “Min. Time btw. Steps” field allows you to specify the minimum 
time (in ms) necessary between two consecutive notes for the alterna-
tion to occur.
If set to 0, each note on will trigger a different sample.
•Reset and Stop are automatically assigned key switches that will re-
set the list and stop the alternation, respectively.
You can change this assignment in the corresponding number fields. 
						

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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 clicking the “MOD” button at the 
top left of the page view.
3.Select “Step Envelope” in the Source column pop-up menu.
4.In the Destination column pop-up menu, select “Pitch”.
5.In the Amount column pop-up menu, select an unused Amount option, 
and set the Amount to 12.
6.Open the Envelope view and click the “STEP” button to open the 
Step Envelope sub-page in the top half of the window.
When opened, the page shows a row of 16 vertical bars, all set to the same value by 
default.    
						

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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 generated by the Step Envelope is continuously looped as 
long as you hold a note down, or for the duration of its set decay time 
if no sustain time has been set. A note on message restarts the pattern 
from step 1.
That concludes the basic setting up of the Step Envelope! 
•You can of course apply the values produced by the Step Envelope to 
any available destination parameter to produce stepped modulation 
effects. 
In the following section we will describe how to edit step values in various ways. Pitch will 
again be used as an example destination, so you can keep the settings already made.   
						

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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 values 
can be set.
Setting the number of steps
•You can set how many steps the pattern cycle should play by clicking 
the up/down arrows of the Steps field.
You can set up to 32 steps.  
						

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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. What the snap value “represents” depends on the selected modu-
lation destination and the Amount setting (on the Sound page), but it is 
obviously applicable for pitch:
•When the Amount parameter is set to 12 and Pitch is the destination, 
each horizontal gridline represents a semitone step.  
						

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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 be +/- 1 octave. The grid 
in Center mode also reflects the extended range – there are 24 horizontal gridlines.
Saving/Loading Presets
•You can save Step Envelope patterns as presets. The method used is 
identical to normal Envelope presets (see page 125).  
						

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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 page views, but the effect parameters are not available on the 
Macro page view.
In this section we describe how to set up and use each of the different 
effect types. 
• The included effects and their parameters are described separately from 
page 182 and onwards.
The FX LED in the bottom left corner of the HALion window will light 
up blue when effedts are used.
Program Inserts
You can add up to 4 Program Inserts to a Program or selected samples. 
With Program Inserts, the whole signal passes through the activated ef-
fects in series from the top slot downwards, so that all activated effects 
are “daisy-chained”, like guitar stomp-boxes. Typical insert effect types 
are compressors and equalizers.  
						

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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 selected, select the samples you wish to process in the Pro-
gram list.
3.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 and activated and the parameters for the selected effect are 
shown in the middle of the effect section.   
						

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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 effects, you select which effect pa-
rameters are shown in the parameter window by clicking in the “Sel” 
column for the corresponding slot.
•You can select an output for the Program Insert effects using the pop-
up menu in the Output column.
Send effects
You can assign up to 4 Send effects, which are global for all Programs. 
With Send effects you control the amount of signal sent to each send 
effect by adjusting the effect send level. Typical send effect types are 
reverb and delay.
•You have 4 Sends that allow you to specify the level of each Send ef-
fect for all or all selected samples.
These can be set on the Sound page view.
•In addition, you have 4 Program Sends that allow you to specify the 
level of each Send effect for the Program as a whole.
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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 and activated and the parameters for the selected 
effect are shown in the middle window of the effect section. In the 
window to the right, you can see that the activated effect is assigned 
to the corresponding Send Levels slider.
3.Activate Select edit mode, and select the samples you wish to process 
in the Program list.
You can of course use “All” edit mode also, but there are separate Program Sends 
available on the Global and Macro page views.
4.Drag the Send Levels slider for the activated effect to the right until 
the desired effect balance is set.
By adjusting the Send Level you control the balance between effect and clean signal. 
When using Send effects you should always set the effect “Mix” parameter to 100%, 
as you can instead control the dry/effect balance with the Send slider.
5.When you play the selected samples you should hear the effect!
6.Using the same general methods, you can add send effects to the 
other slots, and make individual send “mixes” for each selected sample.