Steinberg VST Sampler HALION 4 Operation Manual

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Editing Samples in the Sample Editor
Using the Loop Submenu
The Loop submenu on the context menu contains the fol-
lowing options:
CommandDescription
Copy Sustain Loop to 
Release LoopCopies the start/end marker positions of the sus-tain loop to the release loop.
Copy Release Loop 
to Sustain LoopCopies the start/end marker positions of the re-lease loop to the sustain loop.
Copy Loop A to B Copies the settings of loop A to loop B.
Copy Loop B to ACopies the settings of loop B to loop A.
Set Sustain...

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MIDI Editing and Controllers 

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MIDI Editing and Controllers
The MIDI Editor
The MIDI editor provides access to the MIDI slot parame-
ters of HALion. This includes MIDI channel, Key and Ve-
locity range, and Transpose and Polyphony settings. 
Furthermore, you can specify MIDI controllers to be fil
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tered. To switch between velocity range, key range and 
controller filter, use the buttons above the range controls.
Parameters
Channel
The slot receives MIDI signals on the MIDI port and chan-
nel specified here. You can set multiple...

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MIDI Editing and Controllers
Showing Empty Slots
By default the MIDI editor only shows slots that are cur-
rently in use by programs.
To show also all empty slots, activate the “Show Empty 
Slots” option in the title bar.
Using MIDI Controllers
HALion allows you to assign almost any parameter to a 
MIDI controller. However, you can only assign one param
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eter of a single zone, layer, effect control, etc. at a time. If 
you want to use the same MIDI controller for several 
zones, layers, etc. you...

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MIDI Editing and Controllers
Restoring the Factory MIDI Controller 
Assignment
To restore the factory MIDI controller assignments, open 
the Options editor, and in the MIDI controller section, click 
“Reset to Factory”.
Automation and Factory MIDI 
Controller Assignments
The following parameters show the controller numbers 
and names of the default factory MIDI controller assign
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ment.
ÖThe assigned MIDI controller numbers are the same 
for all 64 slots. However, the MIDI controllers listen only to...

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Mixing and Routing 

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Mixing and Routing
The Audio Bus Architecture
The audio signals of zones, layers, programs, and slots are 
managed via audio busses. The HALion slots always have 
one dedicated bus while programs can have one or more 
audio busses that mix the audio signals from the layers 
and zones they contain. Layers do not have to have an au
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dio bus. However, you can optionally create audio busses 
for layers at any time, for example to create a submix of the 
zones they contain. You can load insert effects on...

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Mixing and Routing
Programs
By default, the audio busses of programs are routed to the 
audio bus of the slot holding the program. You can create 
additional audio busses, for example to create more indi
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vidual outputs. You can reassign the outputs of the audio 
busses of the program to any master output.
Slots
A slot outputs its audio busses directly to the master out-
puts of the plug-in. Each slot has one audio bus. You can 
reassign the outputs of the audio busses of the slots to 
any plug-in...

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Mixing and Routing
Automatic Output Connection
HALion allows you to select outputs in many places. You 
can find output selectors in zones, layer busses, AUX bus
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ses, and slots. Each output can be freely named and the 
output selectors reflect these names.
Different programs on different slots may contain output 
configurations that are not available, because busses with 
the required names are not present in a HALion multi.
In case that connections cannot be established due to dif-
ferent names, a...

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Mixing and Routing
Expanding and Collapsing all Mixer Channels
•To expand all mixer channels at once, click the right ar-
row button.
Expanded mixer channels provide direct access to the insert/send 
effects.
•To collapse all mixer channels at once, click the left ar-
row button.
Collapsed mixer channels only show the most important controls like 
level, pan, solo, mute, and a level meter.
Showing Empty Slot Channels
If set to “Show Slot Bus Channels”, the Mixer editor only 
shows channels that are...