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Welcome The Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set provides additional high-quality content for VST instruments, expanding the available sound libraries with new VST Sound presets. This document describes the parameters and the presets made available by this VST Sound Instrument Set. The sound set can be used by plug-ins based on the HALion engine – currently the latest versions of HALion Sonic and HALion Sonic SE.
Editing program parameters All programs included in the Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set come with a Macro page, giving you access to the parameters that are relevant for the instrument set. This page is available in HALion Sonic and HALion Sonic SE. The Macro page is divided into four sections. The top half contains the Voice, Filter, and Amp sections, and the bottom half shows the StepModulator, which is used to add rhythmic modulations to the sounds.
Parameter descriptions Voice section In the Voice section, the following parameters are available: Mono Switches between monophonic and polyphonic playback. If Mono is deactivated, playback is polyphonic. Polyphony Sets the upper limit for the number of notes you can play in polyphonic mode (up to 128 notes). Unison Allows you to trigger multiple voices when playing single notes.
Amp section In the Amp section, the following parameters are available: Level Adjusts the level of the program. If you add distortion to the filter by increasing the Drive parameter, you may have to adjust the level to compensate for an increase in gain. Attack Increases or decreases the attack time of the amplifier envelope. Positive values decrease the attack time. Release Increases or decreases the release time of the amplifier envelope. Positive values decrease the release time.
• Draw symmetric ramps by [Shift]-[Alt]/[Option]-clicking and drawing a line. • Increment or decrement the level of the selected step using the up and down arrow keys. By default, steps are incremented/decremented in steps of 1 %. Hold [Shift] to increment/decrement the selected step in steps of 0.1 %. • Select the previous or next step using the left and right arrow keys. Sync Synchronizes the steps to the tempo of the host application.
Slope Determines whether the transitions between steps occur as jumps or ramps. The following settings are available: Option Representation Description Off --- All transitions occur as jumps. Rising //// Rising transitions occur as ramps, falling transitions as jumps. Falling \\\\ Falling transitions occur as ramps, rising transitions as jumps. All /\/\ All transitions occur as ramps.
Content listing The Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set contains the following VST presets: Allpass Pad MW.vstpreset Deep Phase Sweep.vstpreset Gentle Pad.vstpreset Noise Trance 4.vstpreset Analog Liner.vstpreset Dirty Formant Sweeper.vstpreset Golden Ring.vstpreset Phaaat Mono 1.vstpreset Atmo BPF Pad MW.vstpreset Dirty Mary.vstpreset HD Pad.vstpreset Phaaat Mono 2.vstpreset Basic Poly.vstpreset Distorted View.vstpreset Heavy Truck.vstpreset Phaaat Mono 3.vstpreset Beast of Berlin.
Saw Acid 1.vstpreset StepMod RateRed.vstpreset Trance Chords MW.vstpreset Saw Acid 2.vstpreset StepMod SQ01.vstpreset Trance Lines.vstpreset Saw Distorted.vstpreset StepMod SQ02.vstpreset Trance Oct Hook.vstpreset Saw Lead Growl.vstpreset StepMod SQ03.vstpreset Trance Orchestra.vstpreset Saw Legato.vstpreset StepMod SQ04.vstpreset Trance Percussive.vstpreset Saw Reduction.vstpreset StepMod SQ05.vstpreset Trance Poly Hook.vstpreset Saw Spider.vstpreset StepMod SQ06.
