Digidesign has announced the acquisition of Wizoo Sound Design, a developer of virtual instruments, sample libraries, and real-time effects led by three principals including keyboardist, sound designer and author Peter Gorges, Steinberg Media Technologies co-founder Manfred Ruerup, and legendary film composer Hans Zimmer. Popular Wizoo-branded products on the market today include Darbuka, Latigo, and WizooVerb. [...]

Frankfurt Musikmesse: Wizoo debuted their new WizooVerb series of high-end reverbs.
W2 is a true stereo plug reverb. Like the big surround brother W5 (following in June), W2 allows creating room emulations either based on impulse responses or by a proprietary algorithm – and even allows for arbitrary combination of both technologies. In a nutshell: Unbeatable [...]

Wizoo has unveiled the first five Xpansions for Xphraze, as well as the official release of version 1.2. Xphraze now supports AU for Logic 7 users.
All five expansions contain new phrases, styles and combis recorded and programmed by professional sound designers and musicians from all over the globe.
Designed to cover a range of styles from [...]

Wizoo, the developer of the Steinberg Hypersonic virtual music workstation, has unveiled a free extension for Hypersonic.

The Hypersonic GM-4 expansion is a free upgrade for all Hypersonic users and adds GM (General MIDI) functionality to Hypersonic, including 128 GM compatible patch programs, a GM standard drum kit and an additional 110MB (330MB uncompressed) of new [...]