http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic. ... c&start=25Here's a finding I'd like to share with the throngs following this thread. Maybe this is a "master of the obvious" thing, but I kind of doubt it.
I have come up with a pretty interesting workaround for the Halion/Cubase sample-cutting limitation/problem. It's weird but really it's pretty powerful and a decent way to work until Halion drag-and-drop gets implemented (which of course may never happen, needless to say...)
This workaround requires: Image-Line "Juice Pack", Image-Line "Direct Wave" (optional), and Cubase, all on Windows.
The basic idea is to use Edison as a VST effect in a Cubase audio channel of interest, and then use that Edison instance to capture the audio needed for the sample(s). So let's say you have some audio from which you wish to do sample cutting, or some other VST (like Battery 3) from which you want to sample. Put Edison as an INSERT onto the audio channel of interest. Then:
1. "Record" the sample region-of-interest into Edison To do this, simply line up the Cubase playback cursor immediately before the start of the region you want to sample. Press "Record" in Edison. Start Cubase playback. When the entirety of the sample has been recorded in Edison, press the "Stop" button in the Edison GUI. BOOM - you have the sample.
2. Create regions in the recorded material within Edison, i.e. cut up the material the way you want it to be in the sampler.
At this point, you can proceed 1 of 2 ways:
A. Save out the regions as files from Edison to a directory on the windows machine and load the results into Halion from its browser. This is an awful lot like "Save Regions to File.." in Cubase. Maybe not that interesting, but still a bit more useful than what Cubase+Halion provide.
B. Drag-and-drop the regions from Edison directly into a DirectWave instance. If the results are what you want in DirectWave, you're finished. Voila - drag-and-drop of samples from Cubase into a sampler!! If you want to use Halion (perhaps because you want Halion's great random panning or other Halion-centric feature) save out the DirectWave program. This will produce a sub-directory of .WAV files consisting of all the samples in that program. Then, load those files into a Halion instance from Halion's browser.
Both of these approaches seem to be pretty useful. I especially am liking the one where DirectWave simply replaces Halion altogether. This is really great - the way the workflow should be.
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Creativity First
It's time to add sampler features to Halion - The VST Sampler
Windows-heads: Do you think this would actually work? Has anyone tried it?
