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Editing Samples in the Sample Editor
Creating Slices Automatically
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4. Right-click in the waveform display, open the Selection submenu, and select Set
Sustain Loop to Selection or Set Release Loop to Selection.
Creating Slices Automatically
You can slice samples in the Sample Editor. This allows you to play them back in sync with
the host application, for example.
PROCEDURE
1. In the Program Tree, select the sample zone that you want to slice.
2. In the Sample Editor, select the Slice tab.
3. Adjust the Threshold, Sensitivity, Min Length and Grid Catch parameters to set the
slice markers automatically.
4. If necessary, move, add, or delete slice markers manually.
You can add and delete slice markers by Alt-clicking in the editor.
5. To create slices, click Apply in the upper right corner of the parameter section.
RESULT
HALion creates zones from the slices. These zones are added to the Program Tree, together
with a slice player that contains the MIDI sequence to play back the sliced loop.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
NOTE
• After slicing the sample, you can still edit the slice markers manually, but you cannot
use the automatic slice detection.
• If you change slice markers after creating slices, the sample start and end markers
of the affected zones in the Program Tree are modified. If you add slice markers, new
zones are added. If you remove slice markers, the corresponding zones are removed.
Modifying Start and End of Slices
You can shorten a slice without changing the position of the adjacent slice markers.
PROCEDURE
• Select the Main tab and drag the corresponding marker.
If you modify the end marker, the following slice start marker turns blue. If you modify
the sample start marker of a slice, this marker turns blue.
NOTE
Changing the start or end markers does not influence the timing of the note events of
the MIDI phrase that triggers the loop.