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2. Navigating the plugin
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Now let’s take a look at Hyperspace CM2’s features. Load an instance on an auxiliary bus and grab a preset from the preset tab. We’ve loaded in Church. You’ll see the presets are categorised by size, and, as mentioned, version 2 increases the preset count considerably.
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On the top left are the Wet/Dry controls and In/Out levels. Use the little arrow icons to link each pair of controls. We have our reverb set up as an auxiliary, so we’ve linked the Wet/Dry controls and set the Wet to 100%, and this makes the direct level 0%.
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To keep things visually clear, Hyperspace CM2’s key parameters are colour coded. The blue controls are the main reverb parameters and include Time, Size and Predelay. You’ve also got a combined high/low pass Filter and Tiltstyle EQ to help tailor frequency content.
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Main controls also include parameters for early and late reflections. Early/ Late is a straightforward balance control, while Par/Ser affects how much these are fed in series or parallel from the input. Try different settings. You’ll find a more serial setting creates more resonances and a far more coloured metallic effect.
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The pink section is home to the Mode option and XY pad. These are key creative aspects of Hyperspace CM2 and let you select the core algorithmic structure (Mode) and then manipulate its sound using the XY control. All very powerful and we’ll demonstrate this more on page 91.
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Finally, Hyperspace CM has four macro-style controls that influence multiple aspects of the reverb sound. The green controls influence dynamics (Duck) and the noise/tonal aspects of the reverb (Focus). Meanwhile, the Orange controls apply comb filtering (Resonate) or freeze the reverb tail (Inertia).