Musicians and sound designers in search of the holy grail of contemporary digital modular synthesis will be impressed with tracktion's Hyperion inspirational multilayer modular, an unlimited sound-design playground inspired by '80s legends such as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Brian Eno. Hyperion is designed with sonic flexibility in mind, while keeping modular patching approachable and easy to follow. The efficient processing affords up to 10 layers of complex sound patches, which can be affected in unison by macro controls, while sending modulation data and aux-bus audio between each other. Music producers of any genre will enjoy the ability to quickly layer and split polyphonic modular patches using a wide variety of synthesis methods, with individual chord, arpeggiation, and bus effects per layer. Multilayer sound designs can be saved and recalled as Combi patches. Utilize the patch browsing with categories, and author filters for fast retrieval of sounds.
- Hyperion features per-layer note handling options enabling layer-specific polyphony, pitchbend range, portamento speed, pitch randomization, and drift depths, custom pitch slope (positive or negative), monophonic-retrig option, and voice-trigger options.
- Unlimited number of nodes per layer and up to 16 mixable modulation sources per target-modulation input pin.
- Animated data modulation mix per voice data-bar and data-scope trace views, and in-graph per-voice text value and per-voice data-scope trace viewer nodes help to make complex patch designs easier to understand and adjust.
- Six layers of 32-voice polyphonic modular patching with individual chord effects
- Send CC and macro controls data, as well as FX bus audio between layers
- Classic mono and stereo digital and virtual analog oscillators with mono or stereo unison detuning and waveshaping, which enables drastic sonic character changes from the basic waveforms
- Easy to use 4 operator FM (phase modulation with feedback) with 12 algorithms and multi-operator output mix, preselected list of useful modulation-operator ratios, and master modulation depth control
- Wave-sequencing oscillators with up to 32 steps of oscillator configuration (including pitch offset, waveform, waveshape depth, unison detunes, balance, and level) with smooth crossfading via wave-sequence position modulation. Plus, you can save your own, and load ready-made sequences
- Wave-sequenced 4 operator FM with the same features as classic oscillator wave-sequencing but enables sequences of 4-operator FM configurations (also with save and load capability)
- Plucked-string model with damping, distortion, and stereo unison detunes
- Physical modeling flute oscillator with smooth note/pipe configuration transitions
- Sample playback with looping—can loop single-cycle waveforms to create custom oscillator tones
- Multisample (sound font) oscillator enabling import of SFZ/SF2 files
- Multiple filter types including low/high/band/notch with cutoff and resonance, slope/depth, stereo offset, and saturation control
- Distortion, tube resonator, ring-modulator, bit-crusher
Suite of stereo-bus effects including:
- 3 Reverb Types: Medium, Large (with modulation and pre-delay), and Huge—all with size, damping, tone, and width controls.
- Chorus, flanger, tremolo
- Stereo filter with the full range of filter types
- Distortion / EQ + distortion
- 3-band EQ
- Tube resonator, ring-mod, bit-crusher, pitch shifter
- Stereo echo with cross feedback, L/R delay offset, and damping controls
- Granulator (full range of emission rate/size/window/playback speed/mix controls)
- FX-bus send and receive (cross layer)
- ADSR with predelay and multiple triggering options, looping envelope, LFOs with one-shot mode, beat sync, and start-phase control
- Macro data receive and sending (affecting all layers concurrently)
- MIDI data/note sending and receiving on selected channels
- Sending control data from one layer to another on internal MIDI channels
- Suite of data processing and generative nodes including data smoothing, binary logic, math-expression evaluation, step sequences, data-range mappers, scale mapping, event triggers, zone triggering, MIDI-data triggering
- Send MIDI CC, control data, and notes to the outside world—drive other synths and effects on any of 16 MIDI channels