Steinberg Hypersonic User Manual

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Hyperknobs
Speed and ease of use are among the most important prerequisites 
for music production tools. Great ideas are evanescent, so you don’t 
want to encounter any limitations in the process of turning your ideas 
into reality.
When working with a synthesizer, after finding a patch you almost 
always have to adapt it to your tune by adjusting the feel, timbre, 
enveloping, etc.
Hyperknobs offer many advantages: No sound design skills required. 
Good overview, with easy...

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Using Hyperknobs
The following properties of a Hyperknob have been carefully set by 
the sound designer:
•Name
•Assignment to sound parameters (multiple per patch, individual range per 
assignment)
•Knob Range
•Knob Mode (Switch, Control)
•Knob default setting.
Upon loading a patch, all Hyperknobs are automatically configured 
and set to a sensible default setting, as defined by the programmer.
What’s the point of Hyperknobs and the Hyper display anyway?
After loading a patch, we...

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Let’s take a look at another, more exotic example – the “Sad Strings 
Velo Swell” from the Orchestra bank:
Again – look at the info and the Hyperknobs. The display reads that this 
is a string patch with minor 7th and sus 4 intervals, and that velocity 
controls attack time. Consequently, the Hyperknobs are set to adjust 
the levels of the intervals; you can also control overall tone, resonance, 
attack time, and release time. 
Now consider what the Hyperknobs do in these...

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Assigning MIDI controls to Hyperknobs
You can remote control the Hyperknobs using MIDI continuous con-
troller messages. This comes in handy if you use a USB remote key-
board with hardware knobs, or any other remote control surface.
There are two ways to assign a Hyperknob to a MIDI controller:
1.Right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) the parameter, then click “CC” 
and choose a controller number from the drop-down list.
2.Right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) the parameter, select...

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Sound generation structure
To work and make music with Hypersonic 2, you needn’t bother about 
how the sounds are actually created. Thanks to Hyperknobs, you 
don’t even have to deal with cryptic synthesizers parameters.
However, a basic understanding of the sound generation structure 
can help you to understand what’s going on inside Hypersonic 2 and 
what makes it “tick”.
Combi
The top level in the Hypersonic 2 structure is the combi. A combi is a 
complete setting or...

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Technical synthesis details
If you’re not technically inclined, you can skip this section. You don’t need 
to learn technical synthesis details to make full use of Hypersonic 2.
The voice structure of a synthesis element always consists of a sound 
generator section (explained in more detail below), a multimode/multi 
slope filter, three envelopes, and one LFO. Two more LFOs and an ar-
peggiator are common to all elements.
For the sound generator section, five synthesis methods are...

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Browsing, searching, loading and saving
One of the most important requirements in music production is finding 
the right sounds quickly. So, we’ve put a lot of time and effort into mak-
ing the Hypersonic 2 patch browser the fastest and most effective 
patch accessing tool ever. 
All patches have been sorted into meaningful banks, extensively tagged 
as parts of clearly-defined categories, and given attributes for tone, 
character and effect. As a result, you can search for...

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Loading a patch into a part slot
Before loading a patch, make sure the correct destination part is high-
lighted, otherwise you might lose a previously edited patch.
Within a bank:
•Double-click on a patch name to load the patch into the selected part 
slot, or
•Drag-and-drop the patch into the part slot.
Patches marked with ≈ are layers of different sounds in one patch, such 
as piano and strings. This is often more convenient and saves part slots.
Selecting patches from within the...

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Loading patches from disk
You can load any Hypersonic 2 FXP files (patches) from disk and into 
the highlighted part slot.
•If your host provides a file menu, load the patch from there.
•If your host does not provide a file menu, the Setup page provides 
loading and saving options:
Browsing the patch library
When you have loaded a patch into a part slot in the Part area and this 
part slot is highlighted, holding [Shift] and pressing the up-arrow key 
or the down-arrow key...

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Finding patches
The Load page is where you find the search function described previ-
ously. You can search for text strings (e.g., parts of names, sound 
properties), or select attributes from a menu of pre-defined terms. 
Text search
The text search function looks for strings in patch names, categories 
and attributes.
•Type text into the Load page’s top row and hit [Return].
Hypersonic 2 appends a new “temporary bank” called “Search Results” 
to the patch bank list and displays...