Roland S-7x to Steinberg HALion I and II Translation

When playing a Roland, a Performance or a Patch is played. Performances are simply collections of Patches, either played on top of each other or set up in a MIDI map. In the Roland Tab in Options, you can select whether you would like to translate Performances or Patches, depending on if your conversion method does not implicitly determine what you would like to translate to.translating.

When Performances are translated, the following happens:

• Translator scans the Performance and sees if it can compress the Patches into a single HALion Program
• Translator will not compress if Prevent Performance Compression is checked in Options
• Translator will not compress if there are different MIDI Channels selected within the Roland Performance; it will instead make individual HALion Programs per MIDI Channel.
• HALion Bank files are not supported yet; when they do they will contain the total aspect of the Performance.

If all the above is confusing, don’t worry. Here is a list of how Translator converts Roland objects:

• Entire disk: Performances or Patches. If Performance Conversion is selected in Options, and there are Patches that are NOT represented in any of the disk’s Performances, they are translated separately into one .gig file per Patch.
• Volumes Folder: Performances or Patches represented within ALL volumes. Objects not represented are NOT translated.
• Performances Folder: All Performances on disk. Patches not represented are NOT translated.
• Patches Folder: All Patches on disk.
• *Partials Folder: All Partials on disk. Each Partial is made into one .gig file containing one HALion Program, with the KeyZone spanning the entire Keyrange.
• *Samples Folder: All Samples on disk. Each Sample is made into one HALion Program, with a KeyZone spanning the entire Keyrange.
• Single Volume: Performances specified in the Volume, or Patches specified by the Performances in the Volume. Objects on disk NOT represented are NOT translated.
• Single Performance: Only that Performance.
• Single Patch: Only that Patch.
• *Single Partial: Partial is made into one HALion Program, with a KeyZone spanning the entire Keyrange.
• *Single Sample: Sample is made into one HALion Program, with a KeyZone spanning the entire Keyrange.

*not available in this version

Roland samplers have the capability for alternative looping modes; Translator compensates for these modes.

Translator gives you several options on where to put the translated HALion Instrument .fxp file(s) and the resulting .wav or AIFF files. Please see the EXS-24/HALion Options tab for more information.