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The HYDRASYNTH keyboard is a sound designer's dream and live performers ideal synthesizer. The sound engine is designed for maximum flexibility. At the same time, ASM has designed the user interface to provide quick patch editing with minimal page switching, including a loads of workflow shortcuts.
Using an advanced wavetable snyth engine, three oscillators, a dual wave mutator, and two filters that can be configured in series or parallel, the tone generation capabilities are unrivalled.
The HYDRASYNTH keyboard features their exclusive Polytouch™ keyboard that provides polyphonic aftertouch on every note, giving you expressive control found only in certain vintage synthesisers.
Add to this a 4-octave ribbon controller and ergonomically designed pitch and mod wheels and you have expression and control that is not equalled in any other hardware synthesizer on the market… Today or ever.
Features
- 49 note Polytouch® keybed
- 3 oscillators with a selection of 219 single cycle waveforms
- Oscillators 1 & 2 are routed into MUTATORS
- Mutators allow you to modulate, bend and sculpt the sound in new (and old) ways
- Oscillators are fed into a mixer along with the Noise generator and Ring Modulator
- 2 filters that can be configured in series or parallel
- 1st filter has 16 different filter models
- 2nd filter is a 12db per octave
- 2nd filter sweeps from low pass > bandpass/notch > high pass
- 5 Low-Frequency Oscillators
- LFO’s feature a STEP mode that allows you to create patterns with up to 64 steps
- 5 DAHDSR Envelopes
- Mod Matrix w/ 32 user-definable modulation routings
- Almost everything in the synth engine can be a modulation destination
- Arpeggiator w/ a phrase arpeggio built-in
- Import MIDI tuning standard files for microtonal productions
- MIDI IN/OUT/THRU
- CV: Supports the standard voltages for Eurorack as well as some of the Japanese Volts>HZ products
- MOD in and outs allow for modulation from DC to full audio ranges, expanding your modulation capabilities
- 8 assignable encoders and buttons
- 5 banks of 128 patches w/ 256 factory patches
- Full FX suite - reverbs, chorus, delay, flanger, EQ, distortion, compressor and many more