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 ranges.
This sample has a key zone range from the C2 key to the D2 key.
The vertical range indi-
cates the Velocity range. Both the key zone (Lo/Hi Key) and the velocity range (Hi/Lo 
Vel) can also be edited in the respective Edit fields.  
						

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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 clicking on their names in the Program List. 
You can also select samples by using the up/down arrow keys in the Program List.
•If you activate the “Key Activates sample” button to the left of the key-
board, playing a sample from your keyboard will automatically select it.
•Selected samples are indicated by orange or red/green borders, de-
pending on whether the sample is view selected or not – see page 67.
See page 40 for a further description of selecting in the Program List.  
						

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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 selected samples have orange borders.
• If the sample resides in a subfolder of the Program folder, the view selected 
sample has a light blue/violet border and other selected samples have violet 
borders.
The following determines which sample will be view selected: 
•When you select samples using [Shift] + click, the last sample you 
click on will be view selected.
If you draw a selection rectangle to select samples, the currently view selected sample 
will continue to have the focus.
•If you press [Ctrl] and click on a sample in the Keyzone window that cur-
rently is view selected, it will remain view selected but not edit selected.
The sample will then have only have a turquoise border. 
						

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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 an indica-
tor of the selected edit mode; it is red if “All” is active, and blue if “Se-
lect” is active.
Select edit mode active.
In this mode, all selected samples will be affected by parameter changes. “MULTI 
SAMPLE” indicates that several samples are currently selected.
In this mode, a single selected sample will be affected by parameter changes. 
“SAMPLE” indicates that only one sample is selected.