Steinberg VST Sampler HALion 3 Operation Manual

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Applying Send effects to Programs
There are 4 additional Send Level Program sliders which are indepen-
dent from the Send Level Sample sliders. To apply Send effects to a 
Program from the Macro or Global page views, proceed as follows:
1.Click the “Send FX” button at the top of the effect section to bring the 
Send FX sub-page into view.
2.Assign the Send effect(s) you wish to use using the method described 
earlier.
3.Activate Program Edit mode.
4.Open the Sound page view.
5.Click the “Out” pop-up in the DCA section and select the “Prog. FX” 
output.
6.Open the Macro or Global page and click the “Send FX” button at the 
top of the effect section.
7.Drag the Send Levels Prog slider for an activated effect slot 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 mix with the Send slider.
8.If you now play a few notes you should hear the effect!  
						

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Setting up send effect returns
You can route each send effect to any of HALions virtual outputs. This 
allows you to use one or several output pairs as dedicated send effect 
return channels in your host application. This is done by clicking in the 
Output column for the Send effect slots and selecting an output from 
the pop-up that appears. 
By setting up dedicated returns you can control the master level of the 
effects while retaining the relative balance set up with the sends.
Inserts 1-4
The Insert 1-4 effects are insert effects which means that the whole 
signal passes through the effect. 
Each Program or selected samples can be routed to one the four In-
sert outputs at a time. To activate Inserts and to assign a Program or 
selected samples to them is done as follows:
1.Select the Sound page view and click the “FX” button on the top left 
side of the page.
You can also open the Sound page view with the FX view selected by pressing 
[Shift]+[F12].
2.Click the “Ins 1-4 FX” button at the top of the window to open the In-
sert sub-page.
3.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”).
If you chose Select edit mode, select the samples you wish to process in the Program 
list.
4.Click the arrow in the “No Effect” field for one of the four slots, and se-
lect an effect from the pop-up.
The effect is loaded and activated and the parameters for the selected effect are 
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5.Click the “Out” pop-up in the DCA section and select the correspond-
ing “Ins FX” output, i.e. the output with the same number as the slot 
with the effect you activated.
6.When you play a few notes you should hear the effect!
7.Using the same general method, you can add Insert effects to the 
other slots.
Inserts are not connected serially as Program Inserts are (see below), instead each 
output carries one effect only.
•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 route any selected samples in a Program to one of the four 
Insert effect outputs, so that for example some samples are routed to 
the “Ins 1 FX” output, and other samples are routed to the “Ins 2 FX” 
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How the different effect types are routed internally
When you have selected an insert effect, a program insert and a send 
effect for a Program, naturally you wish to hear them all simultaneously.
What Program outputs the different effect types should be routed to, 
in order for the effect to be heard, is handled in the following way:
•Send effects, if applied from the Sound page view, do not have to be 
routed to any specific effect output.
Simply activate an effect and move the corresponding send slider to apply the effect. 
The output of the send effects can be set in the Output column for each slot.
•To hear Program Send or Program Insert effects, the Program output 
must be set to use the Prog. FX output (in the DCA section on the 
Sound page view).
The four Program Inserts collective output can be set in the Output column (Prog FX 
view), and the four Program Send effect outputs can be set for each slot.
•To hear an Insert effect, the Program output in the DCA section on the 
Sound page view must be set to one of the “Ins FX 1-4” outputs.
Selecting one of the “Ins FX” still allows you to hear all other activated Program Insert 
or Send effects. The output of the Insert effect will be the same as set for the Program 
Insert in the Output column (Prog FX tab), and the four Send effect outputs are still in-
dependently routed for each slot. 
						

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The Browser page view 
						

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Introduction
In the Browser page view you can copy selected contents from sam-
ple CD/DVD-ROMs to disk (e.g. an internal or external hard drive), or 
browse for HALion Banks or Programs and other sampler formats on 
your hard drive. You can also organize your files and folders, store 
paths to favorite locations and assign Programs and folders to instru-
ment categories. You can also open a separate Browser window 
which can remain open in other page views.   
						

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The structure of the Browser
The Browser page view features two main columns, with files and 
folders organized in a standard hierarchy, much like in the Windows 
Explorer. The Browser will display all folders and sub-folders on your 
drives and partitions, but will only display individual files of the sup-
ported file formats.
•The left column is the root level where all your hard drive partitions and 
connected drives are listed.
•When you select a partition in the left column, e.g. the C: drive, all 
folders on the selected drive are shown in the middle column.
•When you click on a “+” sign in the left column, the partition expands 
to display all sub-folders, Program banks (.fxb) and Program files (.fxp) 
in the selected folder. 
•When you select a folder in the left column, all contained sub-folders, 
Program banks (.fxb), Program files (.fxp) and audio files are displayed 
in the middle column.
•Double-clicking a folder in the middle column opens it to display sub-
folders, Program banks (.fxb), Program files (.fxp) and audio files in the 
selected folder.
You can use the button in the top left corner of the middle column to move up to the 
next folder in the hierarchy.
•Selecting an audio file in the middle column will display it in the sam-
ple window on the right, along with various properties of the sample.
If several samples are selected, the sample window displays the currently view se-
lected sample (with a white border).
•You can organize files and folders in the Browser page view just like in 
your system browser. 
When you right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) a folder a context menu will open, allow-
ing you to create new, or rename, or delete folders, to assign folders to categories or 
browser favorites, etc. Select the Refresh option to refresh the display if you change 
the folder structure using your system’s file managing program. To move folders or 
files, click and drag with the [Shift] button pressed. 
						

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Auditioning samples
You can audition a selected sample by using the Play button below 
the sample window. 
• Click Play to hear the sample. You can adjust the level with the Volume slider.
• If you activate the Auto function, a sample will play back automatically when 
selected.
• If you activate the Loop function, the sample will play back looped.
• The Position slider allows you to audition the sample from any point. Drag to 
the right to audition “further into” the sample.
About the file format buttons
At the top of the Browser page view you find a row of buttons with file 
extensions. These represent the audio file formats supported by 
HALion, and are activated by default. You can use these buttons to fil-
ter certain file types in the Browser. If you deactivate a button (so that 
it goes dark), files of the corresponding type will not be visible in the 
Browser.
The file format buttons are also used in conjunction with the Auto 
Browse function (see below) to specify which file types to browse for.   
						

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About the Auto Browse function
The Auto Browse function will scan a selected partition or directory 
(and any contained sub-folders in up to 11 levels) for HALion compat-
ible file types. The file format buttons (see above) can be used to filter 
the results, e.g. if you deactivate all file types except “fxb”, the Auto 
Browse function will only scan for files of this type and display the re-
sults in the Browser.
Auto Browse will index the results and remember the paths to all 
HALion compatible files that are found. When you perform an auto-
matic search for missing samples (see page 94), the Auto Browse re-
sult will be part of the search. If you run the Auto Browse scan on the 
whole partition where you store your samples regularly, HALion will al-
ways keep track of your samples!
To use this feature, proceed as follows:
1.Select which file types you wish to search for by activating the corres-
ponding file format buttons.
2.Click the Auto Browse button and select a folder or drive partition in 
the dialog that appears.
3.Click Start to start the scan.
4.When the scan is completed, the browser will display all files of the 
specified type(s) in the Browser.
Each sub-folder inside the selected directory that contained files of the specified type 
will be opened.
5.To perform another scan (using different criteria), click the “Scan” but-
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The Quick Favorites 1-3
The buttons at the top left corner labeled 1 to 3 can be used to store 
directory locations. Setting up locations for each button allows you to 
quickly jump between these locations on your drives and partitions. 
Simply select a folder or a file and this location will be memorized for 
the corresponding button until you navigate to another location. The lo-
cations are memorized globally for each instance of HALion you open. 
Quick Favorites can be used together with storable Browser Favorites 
(see below) for maximum flexibility.
Assigning Browser Favorites
You can also store and organize folder locations as Browser Favorites. 
This works as follows:
1.Select a folder that you wish to store as a Favorite location.
It has to be a folder, not a sample or a Program file.
2.Click the Favorites button at the top of the left column, and select 
“Add to Favorites” from the pop-up menu that appears.
This command can also be accessed by right-clicking (Win)/[Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) the 
folder.
3.Click the Favorites button again to add the selected folder to the menu.
4.If you select the “Organize Favorites” menu option, a dialog opens 
where you can organize your stored Favorites in various ways.
You can create new folders, move stored Favorites into folders and rename or delete 
items.