Hypersonic 2 availability

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For various reasons this will not happen.

Read these posts for some more details:

How can I obtain a Steinberg Hypersonic 2 Licence?

The “HS Factory” library (which is the original Halion Sonic 1 library) included with Halion 7 and the Halion Sonic 7 Collection includes most of the acoustic instrument samples introduced with Hypersonic 2. The Halion versions use the original stereo samples of the instruments, as well as dozens of articulations which weren’t available at all in Hypersonic 2. Some of the instruments were replaced with equivalents which were also used by the Yamaha Motif XS workstation. All presets were program…

Hypersonic 2 included in Halion Sonic 2?

That’s incorrect. Almost all of the acoustic instruments from Hypersonic 2 are included with Halion Sonic in higher quality, with more samples across the keyboard, much more velocity layers and several articulations. Some of the worst sounds were replaced with samples from the Yamaha Motif XF. The old Hypersonic strings are included in higher quality with the current version of Halion Symphonic Orchestra, which is part of Absolute 3. A Hypersonic 2 license is included with Halion 6 and Abso…

I’ll close this one.