I would personally LOVE to see sample processing, such as trim, crop, delete, normalise, remove DC offset etc, right in HALion. In the future, presets and synths are nice, but I do personally hope to see more for the sample based functions added. I am after anything that has to do with sample manipulation and to be honest, as cool and exciting as it is to have the new synths and presets in HALion 5, what excited me the most was the fade handles, slice player etc of the sample editor, that is the kinds of stuff I am really after, as well as performance, stability and an intuitive GUI, which HALion 5 has. Well, if it means anything, you have a +1 from me here. Thanks again for the confirmation though! Guess there isn’t a high demand among Steinberg users for this kind of sample manipulation stuff. After this was requested over a year ago I was hoping Halion would fill that pre Phalanx gap in sampleplayer-land. Yep, scrubbing, scratching that kind of stuff. Unfortunately not, you cannot play back and forth in realtime like I think you are describing, you can only change the fly with each new note, like forward one note, backwards another note, not forward + backwards between the same note if you get my drift.

Ah, you are describing something like scrubbing.

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