About This Software

From the first idea to a finished master, in one workspace

HyperION DAW is a complete music production environment for producers, beatmakers, songwriters and vocalists. You can sketch an idea in the step sequencer, write chords in the piano roll and record vocals, then tune them with HyperTune and finish the mix with MasterLab. All of it happens in one window, with your own VST® 3 plug-ins next to more than thirty built-in instruments and effects.

HyperION is free to download and has no time limit. Standard and Ultimate upgrades are one-time, lifetime purchases.

Arrange and edit

• Arrangement with audio, MIDI and pattern tracks, automation, clip fades, and pitch-locked time stretch with no phasing.

• Clip Inspector for colour, nudge, fade shapes, ping-pong, normalize and stretch settings.

• Chord track: store your chords once, and the tools follow them.

• Piano roll with Expression Paint, note glides, Scale Lock, Feel Quantize, spray, stretch, ghost notes, triplets, an MPE lane and expression maps.

• Step sequencer and drum pads with 108 Pattern Starters in 13 genres, Euclid, Rotate and Humanize, step ratchets and a step graph.

• Track pitch lanes: Pitch Bend, Vibrato Depth and Vibrato Rate on any audio or instrument track.

Record, tune and shape vocals

• HyperTune note-based pitch editor with Smart Correct: tune a whole vocal in one pass with Natural, Tight or Hard styles, key detection and formant protection.

• AutoTone real-time pitch correction with AUTO KEY.

• Vocal plug-ins: HyperShine, Vocal Leveler, Breath Control, Vocal Harmonizer, Vocal Plate, VoiceForge, DeResonator, and the new Vocal Doubler and Vocal Strip.

• Lyrics: the notepad and Automatic Lyrics stay in sync; export SRT, LRC, VTT or TXT.

Play guitar through HyperAmp

Five amp models, four pedals, a noise gate, and cabinets with two movable microphones and a room mic. It also has analog delay, reverb, a tuner, your own impulse responses and 45 presets, from Glass Funk to Modern Djent.

Mix and master

• Mixer with ramped faders, sends, buses, plug-in delay compensation and a Control Room.

• MasterLab mastering chain: EQ, glue and punch compression, exciter, mono-bass imager and a true-peak limiter.

• Loudness metering (LUFS, LRA, true peak) with a LUFS-target assistant. Basic Mastering in every edition, One-Click Mastering in Standard and Ultimate.

• New stock plug-ins: Dynamic EQ with M/S, Chord Resonator, Groove Shaper and HyperArp.

• VST® 3 and ASIO®: parallel VST 3 scanning, a Plug-in Manager with favourites, a MIX knob on third-party inserts, crash isolation and low-latency audio.

Generate ideas

• Hum to MIDI and Beatbox to Drums (Ultimate): hum a line or beatbox a rhythm, and get notes or kick, snare and hat.

• Song Starter builds a full, editable arrangement with transitions, drops and real drum sounds. Every press gives a new idea.

• Piano Roll, Step, Chain and Harmony generators, plus Create Backing Track with Remake, Melodic and Vocal modes.

• Styles include Trap, Phonk, Memphis, Drift, Boom Bap, House and Techno.

• Stem separation (4 or 6 stems) and drums to MIDI.

Ultimate: HyperSpectral and Smart Match

• HyperSpectral is a spectral repair editor. Remove noise, hum, clicks, clipping, plosives, wind and reverb, or try one-click Enhance. Sound Layers show voices, drums, bass, melody and chords separately.

• Smart Match fits any clip to a reference: sections, tempo, groove and key, with every step shown in the studio.

Photo and Video Editor (Standard and Ultimate)

Make cover art and music videos without leaving your project. The Photo Editor has layers, 27 blend modes, gradients, filters and familiar shortcuts. The Video Editor offers split, trim, speed, chroma key, lyrics and transitions.

Game audio and live

• Game-audio export: loop-point WAV and OGG, Unity, Godot and GameMaker metadata, stems and dynamic music layers.

• Clip Stage for launching clips live.

• MCP Studio: an AI assistant on your own computer can work in your project, with your permission. Off by default on Steam.

Made to be reliable

• Audio starts on every Windows setup, and HyperION explains any device problem in plain words.

• Open or drop projects, audio (WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC), MIDI and DAWproject files.

• Every failed save tells you the folder and the reason, and autosave never interrupts playback.

• 31 interface languages, themes, and a built-in user manual.

Editions

• Free: the full DAW with unlimited saving and export, 50 generator and AI credits, and Basic Mastering.

• Standard: 250 credits, One-Click Mastering, Photo Editor and Video Editor.

• Ultimate: everything in Standard, plus unlimited generators, stem separation and Track to MIDI, Hum to MIDI, Beatbox to Drums, Mix Assistant, Reference Structure, Stem Remix Studio, Sample Flip to Song, synced lyric videos, Audio to Score, HyperSpectral and Smart Match.

The free Factory Samples DLC adds more than 8,300 sounds and the Cinematic Choir.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

HyperION DAW has no prompt-based or live generative AI features, and its included sounds and the Factory Samples contain no AI-generated audio. Some of the sample preview images included with the Photo Editor and Video Editor were made with AI image tools.
Content created inside HyperION is produced by automation and analysis. The Song Starter, the Piano Roll, Step, Chain and Harmony generators and Create Backing Track are procedural, rule-based systems in the application's own code: they build parts from musical rules, the user's settings and analysis of the user's project, with controlled variation. Smart Match and AI Mastering work by analysing the user's own audio and applying matching processing to it.
Some tools run machine-learning models locally on the user's computer to analyse material the user provides: stem separation, drum and audio to MIDI, lyric transcription and photo object selection. These tools separate, transcribe or select parts of the user's own material; they do not generate new music, voices or images.
Some promotional materials, such as the dubbed voiceovers in our videos, were made with the help of AI voice tools.