Creating a Library
Let us assume that you have inherited a precious and unique acoustic guitar, for example, and you think it is worth building a virtual version of it so that you can play it with your keyboard. You have sampled the guitar sounds and noises, and now you are going to build the library Precious Guitar.
Prerequisite
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You have exported your program under the name Precious Guitar Layer using the Export Program as HALion Sonic SE Layer preset command on the Import/Export submenu of the Program Tree context menu.
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If you want to distribute HALion Sonic SE Program presets that combine several layers, you have loaded the preset Precious Guitar Layer.vstpreset into a slot in HALion Sonic.
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You have saved the preset under the name Init Precious Guitar and you have set up all the necessary tags, such as Category, Sub Category, Author, Character, etc.
NoteDo not specify the Library Name and Manufacturer attributes at this point, because when building the VST Sound container, these tags are overwritten by the attributes that are defined for the library.
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You have created all the required presets for the library.
A quick and easy way to do this is to create variations from the first preset.
Procedure
Result
You have now built the container and the library is ready to be used.
You can always modify presets and the macro page and build the container afterwards again. The Library Creator always takes the files as they are in the moment of the build process.