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Program Tree
Editing Programs, Zones and Layers
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Color Scheme
The color of the icons for program, layers, and zones offer additional information.
• Light gray – Light gray is the standard color for zones. For sample zones, this color
means all samples were found and loaded without problems.
• Red – If an icon is red, samples could not be found, for example, because a removable
hard drive is not connected.
• Yellow – If an element is incomplete, for example, if a sample zone is not linked to a
sample, this is indicated by a yellow icon.
• Light blue – To reduce hard-disk load, HALion can play back samples from RAM only.
To indicate this, the icons of the corresponding sample zones turn light blue.
• Magenta – To free memory on your computer, you can remove the samples completely
from RAM. The samples are played back from the hard disk only. To indicate this, the
icons of the corresponding sample zones turn magenta.
Editing Programs, Zones and Layers
Creating Zones
To create a new zone, you have the following options:
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Drag and drop samples from the MediaBay or the File Explorer/Mac OS Finder to a
program or layer.
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Right-click a layer in the Program Tree, select New> Zone and select the type of zone
that you want to create.
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Click the Create New Zone icon on the toolbar of the Program Tree and select the
type of zone that you want to create.
NOTE
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When creating new zones, HALion uses the default zone preset to set the zone
parameters to their default values. This preset contains all zone parameters, but no
sample-related parameters like sample start/end, loop start/end, etc.
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To use specific zone settings, modify the default preset, and save it as default in your
user presets directory.
Creating Layers
To create new layers you have the following options:
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Click the Create New Layer icon on the toolbar.
If a layer is selected, the new layer is added within this layer. If a zone is selected, the
new layer is added on the same hierarchy level as the zone.
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To add several layers on the same level, Shift-click the Create New Layer icon on the
toolbar for as many times as you want to add layers.
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Right-click a layer, and select New> Layer.
This creates a new layer within the selected layer.