Decomposing Samples - HALion - 7.1

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HALion
Version
7.1
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The Decompose function separates the noise and the tonal components of a sample and allows you to save these components separately as new samples.

Prerequisite

  • You have selected a sample, grain, or spectral zone in the Program Tree.

Procedure

  1. Activate Prelisten.

    HALion calculates the tonal and the noise components of the layer.

  2. Activate Solo Tonal or Solo Noise and play back the corresponding component.
  3. Try out different Sensitivity, Cutoff, and Duration settings.

    The Prelisten function recalculates the tonal and noise components automatically when you modify the parameters. During this process, an indicator is shown above the Prelisten button.

  4. Optional: Use the Tonal Level and Noise Level controls to adjust the level of the corresponding component.
    Note

    Once you have identified the settings that you want to use, be sure to deactivate Solo Tonal/Solo Noise. Otherwise, only the corresponding component is saved when you click Apply.

  5. Click Apply to decompose the sample.

Result

Two new samples are created, one for the tonal and one for the noise component of the sound. They are saved with the extensions “_noise” and “_tonal”, respectively.

Note

If a sample with the same name already exists at the save location, for example, because you tried out different Decompose settings, a number is added to the new file name. No sample files are overwritten by the Decompose function.

After Completing This Task

You can now edit the tonal and noise samples separately, combine them differently, etc.