Mono Envelope - HALion - 7.5

In this context, monophonic means that the envelope is not played back per zone. Instead, it is played back only once for the program or layer that it belongs to.

You can set up conditions for triggering and releasing the envelope. By default, this envelope is bipolar.

Toolbar

Mode

Determines how the envelope is played back when it is triggered.

• Select Sustain to play the envelope from the first node to the sustain node. The sustain level is held for as long as you play the note. When you release the note, the envelope continues with the stages following the sustain. This mode is ideal for looped samples.

• Select Loop to play back the envelope from the first node to the loop nodes. As a result, the loop is repeated for as long as you hold the key. When you release the note, the envelope continues playing the stages that follow the sustain. This mode is ideal for adding motion to the sustain of the envelope.

• Select One Shot to play the envelope from the first to the last node, even if you release the key. The envelope has no sustain stage. This mode is ideal for drum samples.

• Select Shaper to use the envelope as a modulator that allows you to create freely programmable cyclic modulations. To ensure a seamless cycle, the start and end node levels are linked.

Edit

Allows you to edit single or multiple nodes.

Erase

Allows you to delete envelope nodes.

Draw

Allows you to insert a predefined envelope shape.

You can enter shapes by clicking or by clicking and dragging.

• Click on the envelope display to insert the selected shape with its predefined length. If Sync to Host is activated, the shape is inserted at the nearest grid position. If you repeatedly click at the same position, the shape is inserted multiple times.

• Click and drag to insert the shape in the covered drag area. If Sync to Host is activated, the start and the end nodes of the shape snap to the grid, and all nodes in between are scaled relative to the overall length of the shape. After the shape is inserted, all nodes remain selected. This allows you to switch back to the Edit tool for further editing of the shape.

With Fixed Mode activated, the inserted nodes replace all nodes that cover the current time range. With Fixed Mode deactivated, all consecutive nodes are moved to the right.

Paint

Allows you to paint in a predefined envelope shape. The shape is inserted with its predefined length.

If Sync to Host is activated, the length is quantized to the grid. The level of the shape is determined by the vertical mouse position. This allows you to draw perfectly tempo-synchronized, sequential shapes with an added overall level progression.

Select Shape Preset

Allows you to select the shape that is used when entering nodes with the Draw or the Paint tool. A shape consists of multiple nodes making up a progression that can be used when creating your envelopes. The predefined factory shapes are available via the Factory tab. You can also create your own shapes and add them to the User tab. Up to 48 shapes are available per tab.

Save Shape Preset

Allows you to save the current envelope shape as a custom shape. You can add up to 48 custom shapes to the User tab.

Sync to Host Tempo

Allows you to synchronize the envelopes to the tempo of your host application.

Grid

Allows you to set the grid for the envelope display, in note values.

Fixed Mode

• With Fixed Mode activated, only the selected nodes are moved when you move a node on the time axis.

• With Fixed Mode deactivated, all subsequent nodes are moved as well when you move a node.

Envelope Display

Env Node

Displays the active envelope node. To select a node, enter its number in the field. To step through the nodes, use the Previous Node/Next Node buttons.

Time

Specifies the period of time between two nodes. Depending on the Sync mode, the Time parameter is displayed in milliseconds and seconds, or in fractions of beats.

Note

The fraction is always reduced to the smallest possible value. 2/16 is displayed as 1/8, for example.

Curve

Allows you to adjust the curvature between two nodes from linear to logarithmic or exponential behavior.

Level

Specifies the amplitude of the envelope at the position set by the Time parameter.

Envelope Display Context Menu

The context menu allows you to edit the envelope nodes.

Copy

Copies the selected nodes.

Paste

Pastes the copied nodes to the insert position.

Replace

Replaces the selected nodes with the nodes from the clipboard.

Duplicate

Duplicates the selected nodes.

Invert Levels

Flips the nodes vertically around the center of the selection.

Reverse Times

Flips the nodes horizontally around the center of the selection.

Set Sustain Node

Allows you to make the selected node the sustain node.

Envelope Parameters

Level Velocity

Determines how the velocity affects the level of the envelope.

The level of the envelope depends on two factors: the setting of this parameter and how hard you hit a key. With positive values, the harder you hit a key, the higher the level of the envelope. With negative values, the harder you hit a key, the lower the level of the envelope.

Level Velocity Curve

Specifies how the incoming velocity translates to the level of the envelope.

The characteristics of each curve are represented by a small icon.

Time Velocity

Adjusts the influence of velocity on the phases of the envelope. Positive values decrease the length of the phases for higher velocity values. Negative values increase the length of the phases for higher velocity values.

Segments Affected by Time Velocity

Allows you to select the phases of the envelope to be affected by the Time Velocity parameter.

• Attack – The velocity affects the attack only.

• Attack + Decay – The velocity affects all phases up to the sustain phase.

• Decay – The velocity affects all phases including the sustain phase, but without the attack.

• Attack + Release – The velocity affects the attack and the release phases.

• All – The velocity affects all phases.

Time Key Follow, Center Key, and KeyF Rel (Key Follow Release)

With the Time Key Follow and KeyF Rel parameters, you can scale the envelope phases across the keyboard.

• Time Key Follow scales all times before the sustain node.

• KeyF Rel scales all times after the sustain node, that is, the release phase of the envelope.

The value that you specify for Center Key is used as the central position for the Time Key Follow and KeyF Rel functions.

The envelope phases depend on the keyboard range in which the note is played and on the corresponding Time Key Follow setting:

• Positive values decrease the phase lengths for notes above and increase the phase lengths for notes below the Center Key, that is, the higher the notes you play, the faster the envelope.

• Negative values increase the phase lengths for notes above and decrease the phase lengths for notes below the Center Key, that is, the higher the notes you play, the slower the envelope.

Shaper Sync Mode

• With Tempo + Retrig selected, the entire length of the envelope is scaled with the host tempo and can be retriggered, depending on the selected Retrigger Mode.

• With Tempo + Beat selected, the entire length of the envelope is scaled with the host tempo. The envelope restarts with the transport of the host application and lines up to temporal positions in the project. In this mode, the Retrigger Mode is not available.

• Note

  This parameter is only available with Sync to Host Tempo activated.

Retrigger Mode

Sets the condition for triggering the envelope.

• Select First Note to trigger the envelope with the first note that you play.

  Any subsequent notes that you play legato do not trigger the envelope.

• Select Each Note to trigger the envelope with each note that you play. The envelope plays back from its attack each time you press a key.

Release Mode

Sets the condition for releasing the envelope.

• Select First Note to release the envelope with the first note that you release.

• Select Last Note to release the envelope with the last note that you release.