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bydavidrosen · Post by **bydavidrosen** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:35 pm

Hey Guys

Here is my review and demo of Hypernova, a new Kontakt Synth from CL-Projects.

Check it out.

http://www.bydavidrosen.com/2015/09/25/ ... hypernova/

Thanks!

Djnro1 · Post by **Djnro1** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:21 am

Hope for the developper he has the legal rights to use that name! I wouldn't let it go if I was Novation...

Djnro1 · Post by **Djnro1** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:22 am

Even the gui of the plugin is a steal from Novation!

bydavidrosen · Post by **bydavidrosen** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:29 pm

Can't say I'm familiar with much of the Novation stuff, but hey, Hypernova sounds great and the price is right

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:39 pm

bydavidrosen wrote:Can't say I'm familiar with much of the Novation stuff

Huh?

The HyperNova is quite clearly very much inspired by Novation's classic synth, as it is stated on their webpage that it is "Based on a well known polyphonic synthesizer from the late 90's"

How can you do a proper review without having a knowledge of the hardware synth
the Hypernova is based on?

http://www.vintagesynth.com/novation/supernova.php

bydavidrosen · Post by **bydavidrosen** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:48 pm

Numanoid wrote:
bydavidrosen wrote:Can't say I'm familiar with much of the Novation stuff
Huh?

The HyperNova is quite clearly very much inspired by Novation's classic synth, as it is stated on their webpage that it is "Based on a well known polyphonic synthesizer from the late 90's"

How can you do a proper review without having a knowledge of the hardware synth
the Hypernova is based on?

http://www.vintagesynth.com/novation/supernova.php

So, rather than just picking stuff up and randomly using it here and there in my compositions, I use these This Thing Rules segments to better familiarize myself with the ins and outs of the software, force myself to create a whole new piece of music just with that software in the process (or at least heavily featuring that software), and then, share it with people who might be interested in hearing about how I liked it.

I actually don't have a piece of music hardware in my studio aside from an M-Audio Keystation 88es haha. I'm definitely not a hardware guy.

As for the quote from their webpage, I was definitely aware of that, and if you asked me to make a list of 10 brands they could have been talking about, Novation would have been on the list haha. But what Novation's actual synths were like? No clue. Not my area of expertise.

Thanks for reading though. Hope you found the article or my demo interesting regardless.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:13 pm

The developer already sterted a thread at the Samples sub-forum:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... &p=6243264

There he mentioned that a Supernova 2 Pro X Platinum (48 voices) was used for sampling BUT without using the original filters, effects and LFOs which were repleaced by those in Kontakt 5. Alone due to that it shoukld be difficult to get it sound like the real thing.

BTW last week i purchased a Novation UltraNova (the latest one form teh Nova series synths...) and i love it:
http://novationmusic.de/synths/ultranova#

The synth engine overall seems to be even more complex than the Superrnova II which is maybe not obvious when having a look at the unit.

bydavidrosen · Post by **bydavidrosen** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:20 pm

Thanks for posting the link to that thread. The developer definitely put some work into making this a worthwhile package.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:22 pm

bydavidrosen wrote:The developer definitely put some work into making this a worthwhile package.

+1 Novation made a classic synth with Supernova for sure

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:05 pm

Djnro1 wrote:Hope for the developper he has the legal rights to use that name! I wouldn't let it go if I was Novation...

MAybe the us of the name "HyperNova" is inded not so clever. The latest/current version of tef the Nova synths is the "UltraNova" (as ajust mentioend i got one last week...).

So the official names were: Nova -> Nova 2 -> SuperNova -> SuperNova 2 -> UltraNova

Additionally there is also "MiniNova", a smaller Mini keys version of the UltraNova.

If they keep going this way of choosing names sooner or later they could get the idea to create a synth called "Hypernova" and i guess they would not be very pleased to see that there is alraedy a Kontakt library with that name (and a design iclose to the Nova/Supernova synths).

dmbaer · Post by **dmbaer** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:12 pm

I am not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that unlike brand names, which are relatively easy to protect with an adequate legal budget (remember Apple vs. the Beatles, anyone?), product names are difficult to stake a claim to. This would be particularly true if the name were based on an already common word, like "nova" for example. The Chevy Nova preceded any synth of that name and Novation clearly never had to abandon the name of their synths in that line.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:33 pm

Actually you protect a name in one or several classes. Whether it's a brand name or a product name, or both, is not relevant.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:34 pm

Djnro1 wrote:Even the gui of the plugin is a steal from Novation!

Clearly ...

bydavidrosen · Post by **bydavidrosen** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:46 am

This is a fun conversation. I like it

CL-Projects · Post by **CL-Projects** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:22 pm

Djnro1 wrote:Hope for the developper he has the legal rights to use that name! I wouldn't let it go if I was Novation...

As far as i know the name Hypernova wasn't used before. If developers have to think about future problems about a name that could be used for future products, nothing would be released.

Frank
CL-Projects

This Thing Rules: CL-Projects Hypernova