Halion Sonic: Layering Sounds

In this video, I look at a couple of ways of layering sounds in Halion Sonic, one of which allows the introduction of other synths into the mix.

00:00 - Intro
01:54 - MIDI Filtering
03:15 - MIDI Sends
07:05 - Multiple Synths

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[alain_de_frothcorn]

Tx Darren, looks like an awesome way of fleshing out keyboard sounds in a performance environment.

[originunknown]

Very handy knowledge cheers Darren! 👏👏👏

[spectre.garden]

I've never used MIDI sends that way. Very cool - will be useful for my multitimbral hardware(speaking of the 90s). Thanks.

[tonescapes]

Really useful tips here&well put, clear and concise.I'm using cubase 10pro now, &learning over the past few years has been hard, but good.anyway, this looks like it saves cpu, so always good.cheers

[theredrooms]

Great vid as per! I was wondering if it is possible in cubase 11 to have a track to just pick up and record the audio from another? Any advice from anyone would be appreciated

[jembailey]

Thanks for this, I've been layering, for example, two piano sounds set to different octaves for a really full sound for some time, but had completely forgotten about the split keyboard thing. Not only, as someone else has commented, is it ideal for performance, but it's a way of putting two distinct parts on one midi track. This would help at the composition stage to check two parts are meshing.
Am I right in thinking that you've done a video about setting HALion slots to go to different busses? That's the other thing I keep forgetting to try & use. Thanks again.

[musicandfilms]

MIDI sends? What? Ah, I have only Cubase Elements. Oh well.