HALion 7 Studio Delay ping-pong mode not working in stereo

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I have tried adding HALion 7’s Studio Delay plugin in both a mixer slot within HALion and on a bus that I have added to HALion at the “Sound” level. In neither cases will the delay signal bounce back and forth across the stereo field when set to “Ping-Pong” mode as expected. If I adjust the “Delay L/R” parameter all the way left as “Lx0.00,” the first tap of the delay will sound in the left channel, but then all subsequent taps will sound in the right channel.

I know for certain that HALion’s Master output and the channel to which HALion has been instantiated in the Cubase Pro 14 mixer are stereo. If I add HALion’s Chorus or Reverb plugins, these plugins sound in stereo. Also, if I insert Cubase’s dedicated Ping-Pong Delay to the HALion track in Cubase, this plays back correctly in stereo, alternating back and forth from left to right.

So, does HALion simply lack a basic dedicated Ping-Pong delay? In other words, by adjusting the HALion Studio Delay’s “L/R” parameter to a value of Lx0.00, I am not creating a true ping-pong delay.

Please let me know. Thanks!

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Ah, I figured it out. If you want an eighth-note, ping-pong delay, you have to set the delay time to quarter notes (which is confusing) and the “Delay L/R” to “Lx0.50” (or Rx0.50 if you want the first delay tap to be on the right side). That produces a standard eighth-note ping-pong.

The nice thing about HALion’s preset system is that you can save FX presets for recall in other HALion instruments. So I saved this eighth-note ping pong setting for recall.