Product Reviews by KVR Members

It's alway difficult to be the first who review a VSTi, but since I'm so happy with this VSTi, I just have to share my thougths.
Installing Hypersonic is easy and quick. No problems at all. The USB key works, and the license can be transfered to existing USB key to minimize the number of dongles on the PC.
Loading Hypersonic in Cubase as any other VSTi. The setup page let you configure the VSTi with number of outputs etc.
Once loaded, chosing a patch is easy. Just double click on the patch you need (categorized like Acustic Pianos, Acustic guitars or Soft Pads etc)
The sound is great for most patches, but they really comes to life with som fiddling with the Hyperknos. It's 6 knobs who let you adjust the most common and nesseserry parametres of a sound.
CPU usage is extremely low, and my old PIII850 handles Hypersonic with ease.
It's 5 free slots for additional sounds (not realeased yet from wizoo) I've heard a GM bank is on its way (for those who still use GM/GS)
And, there's no need to compare this VSTi to Sampletank. They do the same thing, and both provide great sounds. The Hypersonic is less CPU demanding (I have both) The patches have about the same quality, but after just a week, I find the Hypersonic much easier to work with. Fast patchloading, easy editing and more configurable.
The thing that can change my impression of the Hypersonic now is how fast they put out the new soundbanks, and of course the quality of them.
The Hypersonic have left most of my instruments (VSTi's) unused, and now I have only The Hypersonic and a range of nessecerry VSTi's left in my PC :The Grand, NI B4, NI FM7 and LM-4 (And the Steinberg Studio Case Bundled VSTi's)
For a hobby musician/produser the Hypersonic could be the only VSTi needed.
For the value for the money, it's cheaper than any similar VSTi's and have more sounds.
Customer Support: I've e-mailed wizoo once, and got reply fast (less the 1 hour)
GUI: Clear and easy. You proberly dont need the manual :), but the manual is great, so is the PDF manual and help file.
It has not crashed yet, and have all the features promised in the adds.

Edit:
Drum patches can route the different sounds to their own output, mono or stereo.
Editing/creating/saving patches is possible, different from other similar VSTi's
The waves is created by wizoo, a quality mark in the VSTi buiseness.
And, again, different from the competitors, Hypersonic is not only samplebased, it's actually an analoge, FM and wavetable synth, witch gives endless possibilities.
Patches can be stacked for extremely fat leads/pads. Effects can be applied for only one or several elements in a patch, or as insert or send (for further CPU saving)
There's nothing like this available from other companies (except the Roland XV range/Korg Triton range) This is the closest yet to a hardware soundmodule. It have 32 configurable outputs (competitors have 4) and they are fully configurable. If you're out for a soundmodule, this is it.

Edit II
I've now sold my Hypersonic, bundled with the 3 available modules. The reason is simple: it seems like wizoo has stopped making new modules. Sampletank and Sonic Synth does the same job, but they have all possible additional sounds if you need. Hypersonic do not.......so, I lower my ratings in some areas. For a better sollution, the HALion Sample player will be great. It's more flexible, and if you need a range of new sounds, you can get it almost anywhere.........Read Review

GUI: Well, it's not the most beautiful VSTi available, but it's very easy to use.

Sound: Great. Actually it sounds better than my VSampler (for soundfonts that is)

Docs: You dont need it.

Presets: Download free soundfonts from hammersound.net, or wherever.

Customer support: What can I say. I had to e-mail Oskari once when I bought the XS-1 and got my answer almost at once.

Value for Money: Hey, it's cheap.....

Stability: Never crashed...


All in all, this has to be the best Soundfont player available. It's easy on my humble CPU, and the release 3 can load 16 channels. Of course you can stack them all, or split, or why not a combination of stack and split.

If you need a soundfontplayer, you need this one. I use it in addition to VSampler, and it's a great combination.Read Review

I thought I could get something out of this Sampletanklibrary, but belive me, this is under average. There are one sax patch, that sounds good, but with almost no playability. The brass sections are not balanced, too much or too little of the different instruments. 2 trumpet patches actually can be used, but thats about it. (I bought it for the muted trumpet)

I bought Sonic Implants brass soundfonts, and play them thru the Jeskola XS-1. A more flexible and better sounding sollution.

BTW, I'm not saying something about the Sampletank eneging, since that has been covered enough on the ST rewievs. (It's actually good)Read Review

Does it have presets ? No, (well about 5 or 6) but this is a piano, so who needs presets. The only preset i ask for is.......eh......piano.

GUI : No fancy stuff, but all you need to set the quality according to your CPU.

Stability : No problems so far, easy to install and easy to load : 10-12 sec for the 512mb piano.

Sound : absolutly fantasic. The best piano so far for sequensing.

Value for money : It's about the same as a good sample CD.

Features : who needs them, it's a piano ( you can do some velocity setting, maybe all you need )

Add external FX's , reverbs and EQ to make it fit to your arrangement because The Grand has no such features.

Over all a great VSTi (if you need the best pianosound available)

BTW, on my pIII850mHz, with 512 RAM (PC100), I managed to get 50% CPU load with some heavy playing (Arabesque no1 Claude Debussy) But never over 20% on J.S.Bach (Goldberg variationen )Read Review

I cant do anything than give FM7 a perfect 10 on all places. After a week of hard testing and playing, not a single glitch. Documentation are great, sound are great, GUI are fantastic, presets are great.

Not only typical FM sounds, but also analoge sounds that really stand out in the crowd.

Great synth, just get it.........Read Review

Excactly the Rhodes sound I remember my older brother got from his Rhodes. Not as clear as the Rhodes-samples on my p200, but with this lo-fi sound, it's more authentic. I spend 8 houres straight after downloading, just playing (as I did with the NI B4 to)
This instrument impresses me 1000 times more than the Mda acustic piano.
And, what's even more importan, it's free, and it's a VSTi, without limitations like Emagic's e-pianos.
Download it, and try. It's totally free, and sounds like a real Rhodes ( as I can remember ) If you have a masterkeyboard with piano keys, just close your eyes, and your back in the times when instruments weigths several tons, and everything was real funky.Read Review

Well, it's a monophonic synth, that looks really good. A bit confusing since there's no values around the knobs. It's free. Sounds really good, when you figure out how to use it (creating sounds)

Its easy to use, standard layout, use little CPU, presets are OK, but it's possible to create some good leads with some effort.

Never crashed, has no documentation, but you dont need it, since it's just another analoge monophonic synth.

Perfect for those who's new to synthsRead Review

Come on, there are Soundfonts out there sounding a million times better than this. Looks ugly, sounds like a Cristmas-mall-piano. Proberly OK for people that never tried a "real" piano. The concept's good, but that's not enough to call this a piano. I dont think we need a sub-megabyte piano, when RAM is cheaper than it cost to download this "thing"

Go for something else. Spend a little money on a piano. Nobody has yet emulated a good piano. Use samples or Soundfonts.Read Review

I've tried demos of Battery and dr-008, and my LM-4 suddently looks like a toy, but it's easy to use, the wizoo kits are amazing, editing kits are almost impossible, but if you just want some really good drums, the LM-4 will do. There's better alternatives out there for those who want to make their own kits. But for me who's happy with the bundled kits, the LM-4 and Wizoo is the only acustic drums I need. For analoge drums, I use Dynamo's Drumatik.Read Review

Sounds great, looks great, support great, presets are great, has a papermanual like all other NI products (more like interresting books about the products) The new "weels" looks great to, but have not bougth them yet.

What can I say.... it's NI... excpect the best.Read Review