Multiple sounds (depending on the part) in a live keyboard MIDI track

VST Live
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The following simplified scenario for a song:
There are 2 audio tracks (drums and bass) that I have created as individual backing tracks. The song consists of 4 parts (intro, verse, chorus, outro).
I want to play along live with my keyboard. The MIDI track is created and connected to the keyboard. Halion Sonic is hosted in an associated layer. The song starts and I play the set Halion Sonic sound live with the keyboard. It works.

But now I want to add automation. For the first part “Intro”, Halion Sonic should provide a rock piano sound. When the “Verse” part starts, Halion Sonic should deliver an organ sound. When the “Chorus” part starts, I want to call up a synth pad from Halion Sonic.
But I don’t want to have to adjust anything on the keyboard or play a different zone. All of this should be implemented in VST Live.
How can I solve this with VST Live?

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Hi @Konstantin_Lossner,

you cannot automate a HALion Sonic sound of HALion Sonic slot. But there are ways to get your wish up and running.

  1. Change HALion Sonic to GM mode. Go to the OPTIONS page of HS and enable GM Mode.

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  1. Now go to the VST Live Layer and control the GM Sound with PGM CHG controls. Let’s say you want to have Electric Piano sound, then change it to value = 5.

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  1. Now you need Piano for a Intro an Organ sound for Verse. Create a second Part call it “Verse” and load the HALion sonic instance of Part_1 (Intro) as a Shared Instrument.

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  1. And now select the the PGM CHG control with a value of 19.

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  1. Now you need a trigger Point for Part_2 (Verse) to let VST Live know when it should trigger Part_2 to load the new sounds. For this select TRACKS, move the Playhead to 3.1 and click to the Trigger display of Part_2

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  1. Rewind the Transport to 1.1, Start the transport and you will see that HALion Song will load first Piano and at Pos 3.1 it will load the Rock Organ.

But this way it will take time load sound_a to sound_b. That’s why you should use the different slots of HALion sonic. Here is another way

  1. Start VST Live, New Project
  2. Rename Part 1 to “Intro” and load “HALion Sonic” to Layer_1
  3. Open “HALion Sonic” editor and load for Slot_1 “Bright Rock Piano”
  4. For Slot_2 load the sound “Cheesy Dance Organ”

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  1. Change the Output Channel to 1 of the HALion Sonic in your Intro/Layer_1

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  1. Add another Part and rename it to “Verse”
  2. Load “HAlion Sonic” from “Intro” as a Shared Instrument
  3. Change the Output Channel to 2 of HALion Sonic in your Verse/Layer_1

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  1. Select TRACKS, move Playhead to 3.1 and set a Trigger point to the Verse Part
  2. Rewind the Transport to 1.1 and start it

Now you can play with your MIDI Instrument for Intro the Piano Sound, and when the Intro will be activated, you can play your Organ.

See you,
Michael.

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thanks for this comprehensive proposal
i will check this tomorrow.