Steinberg VST Workstation Halion Sonic Operation Manual

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3.Go to the upper section, select Pitch, Filter or Amp 
and adjust the parameters as desired.
ÖOnly the currently selected drum instrument or loop 
slice will be edited.
Pitch
This section gives you access to the tuning of the drum in-
strument or loop slice. With the parameters Octave, 
Coarse and Fine, you can adjust the tuning in steps of oc
-
taves, semitones and cents. In addition, you can adjust the 
amount of pitch modulation from the Pitch envelope or 
randomly with each...

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Filter type
By selecting the filter type you specify the basic sound 
character of the filter. HALion  Sonic offers up to 23 filter 
shapes (for details on filter shapes, see below).
Filter type Description
Off The filter section is switched off. Use this when no filter is 
ne

eded for your sound and/or when you want to save 
CPU cycles.
Classic This filter type offers 23 filter shapes with Resonance.
Tube Drive This filter type offers a lot of character by adding warm, 
tube-lik

e...

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Env Amnt
Env Amnt is short for Envelope Amount. Use this parame-
ter to adjust the Cutoff modulation from the Filter Enve-
lope. The control range is from -100% to +100%. Setting 
negative values inverts the direction of the modulation 
from the Filter Envelope.
Velocity
This parameter adjusts the Cutoff modulation from veloc-
ity. It ranges from -100% to +100%. Set this parameter to 
positive values to increase the Cutoff with higher veloci
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ties. Use negative values to decrease the...

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•The -3dB option uses the cosine/sine pan law: The 
loudness is cut by -3dB at the center position, but the en
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ergy is preserved when moving the source signal across 
the stereo panorama. The -3dB option sounds more natu
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ral. The transition from hard left to hard right sounds much 
smoother than with the 0dB or the -6dB setting.
•The -6dB option uses the linear pan law: The loudness 
is cut by -6dB at the center position, and the energy is not 
preserved when moving the source signal...

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Level Velocity
Use this parameter to adjust how velocity affects the level 
of the envelope. The level of the envelope depends on the 
setting of this parameter and how hard you hit a note: 
Positive values increase and negative values decrease the 
level of the envelope the harder you hit a note. The control 
range is from -200% to +200%.
Level Velocity Curve
You can select one of eight curves to specify how the in-
coming velocity translates to the level of the envelope. The...

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Frequency
This controls the frequency of  the modulation, i.e. the 
“speed” of the LFO. The control range is from 0 Hz to 30 
Hz. When Sync is activated, the frequency is set in frac -
tions of beats.
Phase
This sets the initial phase of the waveform when the LFO 
is retriggered. The control range is from 0° to 360°.
Rnd
Rnd is short for Random. When activated, each note 
starts with a randomized start phase. The Phase control 
gets automatically disabled.
Sync
You can sync the LFO to the...

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Quick controls
The eight potentiometer controls, the horizontal and verti-
cal axis of the sphere, and the modulation wheel located at 
the bottom of the plug-in surface can be assigned as 
quick controls. Quick controls allow you to remote control 
any parameter inside the program. Typically, they give you 
easy access to the most important sound parameters. 
There is a set of quick controls for the program. In addi
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tion, each layer has its own set of quick controls. The 
quick...

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Accessing quick controls
To access the quick controls of the program or one of its 
layers:
1.Select the program you wish to edit in the Multi Pro-
gram Rack.
2.Go to the left of the quick controls and click the pro-
gram button (“P”) or one of the layer buttons (“L1” to 
“L4”).
3.The quick controls change to the settings of the pro-
gram or the selected layer respectively.
ÖThe Sphere displays P, L1, L2, L3 or L4 to indicate the 
selected program or layer accordingly.
Assigning quick...

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Naming quick controls
Each quick control can have a name that will be displayed 
as the title of the quick control. By giving the quick control 
an explanatory name, you will know what it does at a 
glance. Quick controls with nothing assigned yet do not 
display a name. By default, a quick control is given the 
name of the parameter you assigned first. After this, any 
further assignments will not change the name. However, 
you can rename the quick control at any time.
To rename a quick...

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3. On the respective assignm ent, click the menu to the 
lower left and select the desired behavior.
Option Description
Absolute This remote controls the parameter values continuously. 
P

arameter changes will be overwritten.
Relative This remote controls the parameter values continuously. 
P

arameter changes can still be heard.
Switch Absolute This will switch between the minimum and maximum 
valu

e. Parameter changes will be overwritten.
Switch Relative This will switch between the...