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Space Designer overview
Space Designer is a convolution reverb eect that you can use to place your audio signals in
exceptionally realistic recreations of real-world acoustic environments. Space Designer generates
reverb by convolving, or combining, an audio signal with an impulse response reverb sample. An
impulse response is a recording of a room’s reverb characteristics, or more precisely, a recording
of all reections in a given room following an initial signal spike. The actual impulse response le
is a standard audio le.
To understand how this works, imagine a situation where Space Designer is used on a vocal
track. An impulse response le recorded in an actual opera house is loaded into Space Designer.
This impulse response le is convolved with your vocal track, placing the singer inside the opera
house.
Convolution can be used to place your audio signal inside any space, including a speaker cabinet,
a plastic toy, a cardboard box, and so on. All you need is an impulse response recording of
the space.
In addition to loading impulse responses, Space Designer includes an on-board impulse response
synthesis facility. This enables you to create completely unique eects, particularly when the
synthesized impulse response doesn’t represent a real space.
Space Designer also oers features such as envelopes, lters, EQ, and stereo/surround
balance controls, which provide precise control over the dynamics, timbre, and length of
the reverberation.
Space Designer can operate as a mono, stereo, true stereo (meaning each channel is processed
discretely), or surround eect.
Automation and Space Designer
Space Designer cannot be fully automated—unlike most other Logic Pro plug-ins. This is because
Space Designer needs to reload the impulse response and recalculate the convolution before
audio can be routed through it.
You can, however, record, edit, and play back any movement of the following Space Designer
parameters in a suitable host application:
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Stereo Crossfeed
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Direct Output
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Reverb Output
Space Designer convolution reverb
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