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An unlimited sound design playground inspired by 80's legends such as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Brian Eno, Hyperion is a contemporary digital modular masterpiece.
Hyperion synth has been designed from the outset with sonic flexibility in mind whilst keeping modular patching approachable and easy to follow.
Efficient processing enables up to 16 layers of MPE capable complex sound patches which can be affected in unison by macro controls, but which can also send modulation data and aux buss audio between each other.
The ability to quickly layer and split polyphonic modular patches using a wide variety of synthesis methods and with individual chord, arpeggiation and bus effects per layer is an instant source of musical inspiration for music producers of all genres.
Patch browsing with categories and author filters as well as quick folder switching enables fast retrieval of sounds.
Hyperion features per layer note handling options enabling layer specific polyphony, pitch bend range, portamento speed, pitch randomization and drift depths, custom pitch slope (positive or negative), mono-phonic re-trig option, and voice trigger options.
Unlimited number of nodes per layer - and up to 16 mixable modulation sources per target modulation input pin.
Waveform previews, 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.
Classic mono and stereo 'digital' and 'virtual analog' oscillators with mono or stereo unison detuning and wave-shaping which enables drastic sonic character changes from the basic wave-forms. Integrated hard sync mode and waveform bit-crush controls.
Easy to use 4 operator FM (phase modulation with feedback) with 12 algorithms & multi-operator output mix, pre-selected 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, wave-shape depth, unison detunes, balance and level) with smooth cross fading via wave-sequence position modulation - save your own, and load ready made sequences.
Wave-sequenced 4 operator FM - with the same features as classic oscillator wave-sequencing but enabling sequences of 4 operator FM configurations (also with save and load capability):
Per voice processing:
Multiple filter types including low/high/band/notch with cutoff & resonance, slope/depth, stereo offset and saturation control.
Distortion, Tube resonator, Ring modulator, Bit-Crusher, per-voice Granulator, Vowel filter.
Touch oriented modulate-able (4 source) audio levels and Vector-mixer nodes.
Suite of true-stereo buss effects including:
ADSR with pre-delay and multiple triggering options, looping envelope, LFOs with one-shot mode, beat sync and start phase control.
Macro data receive and send (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.
XY-touch oriented data control trigger/data generator pads (nodes).
Reviewed By Trader One [all]
December 11th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.14 on Windows
This is very interesting project. It's not replacement for Reaktor. You can't build custom synths and custom blocks here. User base is much smaller compared to Reaktor and there is no site where users can share their patches. Also no SDK for writing/porting own modules.
it's modular synth with layers and polyphony, you build your own synth from provided components. Some components have features not found often in main stream synths. GUI is easy to work with, I like wires more then in Reaktor; more complex patches are easier to build then in competitive products (cherry audio, soft tube, VCV rack).
Sound is nice, but there is no wave table synth with ability to load surge, vital, serum wave tables. You can only morph between waves. For sound design it's not a big difference but people would like to import their tables. It should be viewed as digital synth, not analog emulation. It has some filters inspired by vintage analogs but sound is nowhere close as other vendors (KORG, NI, Air Music tech) can do.
overall sound is nice. If you build own sounds and feel limited by number of LFO, envelopes in standard synth you will like this product. It can do FM4 synth with multiple algorithms but there is no DX7 compatible mode you can turn on and load half of DX7 patch.
Interesting feature is that this synth can generate MIDI CC messages. You can use it for example as fancy envelope generator.
I noticed that during Black Friday lot of people purchased competing modular synths for 40 USD. I can understand it - it will be unlikely your daily work horse synth (no downloadable extra presets, design sound is slower), so you do not want to pay much.
product is definitely worth checking. It's single developer project but unlike similar products distributed by Tracktion, author is communicating well. So, I think it's good to buy synth and give him chance to hire more developers and let Hyperion grow.

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