Hi, so I got halion sonic 7 for dorico, but I also use it in reaper to add more instruments and production. In reaper I mess with some volume meters to the left of the keyboard and when I save the song the preset resets that meter every time I try to load it back up. The other settings stay the same. Is there anything I can do about this? Someone in a discord for reaper mentioned possibly setting CC to save the setting, I don’t know how to do that either. Whatever you guys think would be easiest would be much appreciated.
That definitely helps, but it doesn’t change the sound enough for me to work with my other instruments. That option also changes the quality of the sound.
It’s this meter on the bottom left that I highlighted.
The one on the left changes pitch, the one on the right adds volume (and some other things I think but mostly volume.) It also keeps the quality of the instrument intact. I just don’t know how to save it, for quartets and stuff it’s fine, but for music with more instruments it’s annoying to have to reset that one meter every time. Now that you can see it if someone can give me a better name for it that I could look up easier that would be much appreciated too.
Thanks for the reply!
What you circled are performance controls, the Pitch Shift wheel and the Modulation wheel. Every synth has these. Their positions/setting are never saved with the patch, not in any synth.
Search the HALion manual for the modulation and pitch wheels and the Cubase manual for adding lanes to the edit window.
Also look for Continuous Controllers (CC - there are 128 of them: CC1 for the mod wheel, CC7 for volume, CC11 for Expression etc.)
What you find will apply to most synths.
Ok, I found out how to automate the modulation in my DAW, thank you for the advice.
It’s very annoying , what i did in the end was UNlearn the volume CC controller by right clicking on the volume control for each Halion Part and then saved the patch or multi instrument , not i deal but it mean the volume stayed where it was every time
Thanks. What I ended up doing was writing in the modulation in the envelope for the instrument in the DAW I was using. If I was using a lot of instruments I just set up a track to the modulation where I wanted it, then routed that via sending it to all my other tracks.