I just purchased Steinberg's Hypersonic last night and am learning the ropes. Has anyone here used it?

One question I had: it advertises 1024 voices of polyphony, but when I go into any given patch, the max # of voices I can assign it is 64. I don't think this is due to the limitation of my hardware, as I'm running a 2.2Ghz processor and 768MB of RAM. Is this a bug? Or are a max of 64 voices hardwired to each of the 16 channels (16 x 64 = 1024)?

Sounds right to me. You concerned with exceeding 64 note polyphony on a single channel?

Devon

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DevonB wrote:

Sounds right to me. You concerned with exceeding 64 note polyphony on a single channel? Devon

Probably not in most circumstances (unless I'm doing a piano concerto). I was just wondering if this is how it's supposed to behave.

That´s right, but if you´d need 1024 voices for one sound you could load the same one into all 16 slots
I really like working with Hypersonic. It´s so light on CPU, and they really spent time on making it as easy to use as possible; all other plugin developers could learn from it architecture.
But a big minus is that with the current version you aren´t allowed to edit many parameters. It´s too close to just being an advanced sample player like Sampletank, which is disappointing because the advertisement makes you think it can do alot more.
But accourding to another thread a few week backs here on kvr, the next release should have much more access to changing of sounds!
So when that comes out, and there´ll be more sounds available, then it´s gonna be hard to beat it

Roman, I also like the ease with which you can compose music with Hypersonic; it gives you instant access to your creativity without having to search around for sounds or wait forever for huge samples to load up. I especially like the drum kit constructor in the combi menu that lets you dial in different sounds on the fly for each drum.

One disapointment I had, though, is that many of the sounds seem a bit "thin" for my taste, particularly the electric pianos and strings. I was expecting to find some fat, luscious, room-filling string pads, some Rhodes and DX EPs that were dynamic and responsive, and some rich, layered "ballad pianos" (combination of grand piano and electric piano stacks) similar to those in the Korg Triton and other hardware workstations - but I haven't found anything like this. Any suggestions?

CadeBryant wrote:

One disapointment I had, though, is that many of the sounds seem a bit "thin" for my taste, particularly the electric pianos and strings. I was expecting to find some fat, luscious, room-filling string pads, some Rhodes and DX EPs that were dynamic and responsive, and some rich, layered "ballad pianos" (combination of grand piano and electric piano stacks) similar to those in the Korg Triton and other hardware workstations - but I haven't found anything like this. Any suggestions?

Untill more sounds are released, what about playing around with EQ´ing the existing patches a bit? I think that feature - at least - is implented with all patches. That would maybe solve the thinness problem, but of course not help you with particular waves that are not there.