Steinberger VSTi HALion Player User's Manual

Version History

HALion Player

3.2.0 (pre-release)

New Features

Fixes

Please note that this pre-release version isn’t fully tested, may lead to

unexpected problems and therefore isn’t supported by Steinberg. Its
purpose is to allow taking Users advantage of Fixes and new features
without waiting for the final version.

• HALion Player now supports RAMsave, it’s a technology to reduce
the load time of Projects and memory consumption of Samples that
aren’t used. You can activate RAMsave by hitting the RAMsave
button in the left bottom corner.

o playback your Song from start to end – HALion Player will

now go into “scan-mode” and marks internally all Samples
used by incoming notes on all Sl ot s

o hit ok if you song ended – now HALion Player unloads any

Samples that weren’t in use by your Song (again for all
Slots)

If you want to reload all Samples for a Program on a specific Slot,
simply choose “Reload” from the Slot menue.

• Standalone version:

o New Preferences Dialog
o Multiple physical output assignment sup p ort
o Improved Rewire support
o New MIDI Reset button (Panic)

• Options Page:

o Changing the output configuration is n ow possible
o HALion now features ultra low preload time (down to 0,1

sec) and consumes less memory for same amount of
samples. This will help to stay inside the 2GB memory
barrier, even while accessing massive amounts of
Samples.

o New Mixdown mode for export (when not provided by

Host, like in Logic)

• Various: FXP program files are compressed now for allowing
smaller file sizes.

• Standalone version:

o MIDI input preferences were lost after re-loading

standalone of HALion 3.1

• Options Page:

o Better memory handling when changing pr eload time
o Fixed text and help-menu for Voice Buffers

• Various:

o Slots resetted their settings if a new program were loaded
o Fixed a DC offset problem which could lead up to 300db

output peaks after long usage time

o Fixed conditions in which hanging notes could occur
o CC66 Sostenuto could cause a crash
o OSX: better AU support

HALion Player 3.2 pre-release – Changes and Version History 1 of 1 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH June 2005