HALion Sonic Edit Mode

HALion Sonic Edit Mode allows you to edit a HALion Sonic preset in HALion and then save it in its original preset format, so that it can be opened in the plug-in that it was created in.

When preparing HALion Sonic libraries, the most common workflow is probably the following one:

1. In HALion, you create a HALion Sonic Init layer which represents the instrument.

2. You load this Init layer into HALion Sonic.

3. You create your HALion Sonic program preset using up to four of the Init layers.

4. In the Library Creator, you build your VST Sound library that contains the final presets.

In step 3, you are likely to create a large number of presets. There may be situations where you want to modify the Init layer preset from which you started. If these modifications cannot be performed in HALion Sonic, for example, because you must connect a module or parameter to your macro page, you must load the preset into HALion, perform your fixes and save the result as a HALion Sonic preset. If you already created program presets that use this Init layer preset, these steps must be performed for all the program presets. In this case, HALion Sonic Edit Mode, in combination with scripting, allows you to automatically modify numerous presets at the same time.

You activate HALion Sonic Edit Mode in the Edit section of the Options Editor.