Halion is great but there’s plenty room for improvement. I made this list of 41 things I think Halion 6 could serously use in order to maximize capability and quality. Some of these things come from a user perspective but most are from a developer perspective.
- Add toggle-lock expand all mixer channels (Lock the expanded state of the mixer channels).
- Add duplicate option for Program Tree Elements (Right click, Duplicate).
- Add search function within the Parameter Tree.
- Add ability to Assign quick controls to Mod Matrix Destinations.
- Add Ability to assign FX parameters to mod matrix.
- Add FM synth module.
- Add LFO view Element/Template to macro page. (Same LFO view as the one in Zones)
- Add filter view Element/Template (we need a frequency response display with color and fill options).
- Add separate cutoffs knobs per filter (offset sucks).
- Add ability to route Zones into each other i.e. routing the output of one Zone into the filter of another Zone.
- Add a phase/polarity inversion option.
- Add output waveform Element/Template. Let us see the output as a waveform, not just the sample.
- Add ability to create and save HSSE3 presets directly from H6.
- Add Copy and paste options for quick controls section in Layer and Program SOUND tab.
- Add program browsing from macro page i.e. add program browser Element/Template.
- Fix manual. Limitations not documented (i.e. bitmap size) and typos (Path Browser - HALion Macro Page - Steinberg Developer Help “Titel”).
- H6 should have fast Multi program switching just like HS3.
- Add support for higher resolution screens. Macro pages look pixelated on a lot of screens.
- Right-click “Sort selection by name” in Macro Page (Would be nice if we could select several elements and be able to reorganize them by alpha-numerically).
- Add Duplicate to key commands. There’s currently no way to assign a shortcut for this function.
- Note Expression names should follow from HS6 to HS3 with layer export.
- Add a mix knob on all distortion effects i.e. Amplifier, VST Amp, and Tape Saturation (Just like the legacy fx).
- Add right-click “Group selection”, “Stack selection”, “Disable Group selection” in macro page.
- Lock Resources in the macro designer. You can lock the templates but not the resources the templates use.
- Add the rest of Reverence reverb paramters.
- Copy and paste stop reordering elements.
- Add ability to use coded parameters in mod matrix.
- Add a Bitmap pixel size display.
- Add ability to change empty macro area from dark gray (Useful when creating and testing macro page elements).
- Exported properties and scopes moves with copy and paste.
- Attribute values (Author, style etc etc) transfer over from H6 to HSSE3 with layer preset.
- Comb filter missing from manual.
- Comb filter should be in classic filter type.
- Add read-only option to Enevelope view macro template.
- Add ability to change pop up parameters so that they can be used as more than just menus.
- Higher bitmap dimension limit (This is especially important when trying to create multi-framed bitmaps).
- Add Envelope fill option to Enevelope view macro template.
- Add Envelope fill color to Enevelope view macro template.
- Add Envelope color option to Enevelope view macro template
- Add an Oscilloscope template to macro page.
- Add drag and drop functions to macro page. Would be nice to drag and drop parameters to the mod matrix.