ASM Hydrasynth Oscillator + Mutator In Depth Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this video, we take an in-depth tour of the ASM Hydrasynth's Oscillators and Mutators. If you want to know more, check out our Signal article here: www.perfectcir...
ASM's Hydrasynth is a tremendously powerful digital synthesizer with its own rich set of options for sound design. It uses a unique sonic vocabulary throughout, offering deep options that any synthesist will love exploring. The oscillators provide 219 waveshapes and the option for WaveScanning-a wavetable-like technique for smooth wave morphing.
Each Hydrasynth voice also features four Mutators (or Mutants)...processes that enable classic effects like FM, sync, and PWM. The Mutators take each of these techniques into far deeper territory than typically possible, however, often transforming these familiar tricks into something entirely new.
Even without touching the filters or effects, the Hydrasynth is an incredibly powerful instrument.
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One of the best presentations of an electronic instrument. Perfect Circuit is also where I purchased my Hydrasynth
Ryan is the real deal! Knows his sh*t and doesn’t have to wing it.
This video made me love my Hydrasynth even more.
What's not to like? The most economical method of selecting oscillators, filters, envelops, LFOs and mutators with 360 degree knobs that are lit to the true parameter setting, for hands on control without too many knobs that would inflate the price, a Ribbon and a Poly AT keyboard, a sound engine that isn't copying most of the stuff out there, all at a price under $1500. Definitely going to be getting one of these this holiday season. Well done review!
Dennis Ristow Wave Scan seems to be it’s greatest negative
The only synth I can think of that did a lot of this was the Ultranova, a truly underestimated synth. I'm glad digital is fashionable again. :)
Oddly enough, my favourite preset on the Ultranova was called "Hydra" if I remember correctly. A really smooth bass patch
When Ryan is excited about a synth it’s time to pay close attention. He is my favorite number one go to expert who is a straight up expert and an open book without attitude who teaches this in a classroom setting. Modular/ synths the gambit. Now I am interested. And Glen Darcy is a monster synth designer ! Peace Christo 👽🐕🎶🛸☮️
Actually I've seen this same excitement in various reviewers in internet. So I think this is an awesome synth
This video is the reason I bought my Hydrasynth from Perfect Circuit! I could have ordered online anywhere, but this video alone has been super helpful in making my decision to purchase and figuring out how to use the thing now that I have it! Thanks!
Excellent video and explanation. This synth uses a different synthesis model and you acknowledge that this challenges how we are used to thinking about synths. Nice to see a retailer care so much about what they sell.
I like the WPM of this video (weird per minute) and how it dynamically changes. I also think it is one of the best synth demos I have ever seen. This video has sold me the Hydrasynth. That is, when it is finally available in Germany.
By far the best review of hydra ive seen you've shown exactly what I wanted to here from this synth, the extremity is amazing were on the same page. RESPECT ….
I am so happy that I invested my money in this synth. It was much for me and I sold my bike for it, but all the sounds are so pleasing it just makes me happy and satisfied to hear and modulate that thing.. This synths takes you through the whole history and techniques of sound design.. I have experimented with the behringer neutron for one year now... But this thing is a whole sweetspot, wich is compared difficult to reach with a neutron.. And so much possibilities.. I am in love! Guys you need the hydra! :)
Excellent examination. The best I've seen. Thanks Ryan .
I'm kind of late to the party with Hydrasynth and am super impressed by the pace and clarity of this presentation. It's way too easy to get overexcited with this instrument and then think it's way too deep to really have a control beyond a bit of editing of presets. I'm beginning to understand the scarier bits under the hood as I am used to the language here and familiar with the references made to earlier, dare I say it, traditional techniques. Thank you for the pragmatism.
Harmonic sounds like he PAF example in puredata. It's one of the craziest sounds I thought would be cool in a hardware synth. You can tell these programmers were really inspired to do whatever they can with the power they had.
One of the best reviews of the Hydrasynth! The fact that you acknowledged that some control settings can generated some unattractive sounds is golden. This review does a great job of narrating and using sounds that don’t make someone want to avoid the Hydrasynth. Thank you.
Incredible instrument, I just got my Hydrasynth Deluxe. I started with analog synths but as a keyboard player was disappointed by the cost and polyphony options. Love live digital synths!
Lovely run-through. Used this as a "map" for finding my way around the synth, when I first tried it out. So thanks :)
And now we have Phaz-Diff mutator mode as well. Wild synth, love playing with my desktop version.
Very well done! Thank you for this. Picked up my Hydrasynth from you guys today!
Thanks, have fun with the Hydrasynth!
Great! Thank you very much for this cool and balanced video. 44 minutes keeping me on line, hooked to the sound and visual, time flying by as nothing.
When's my Hydrasynth coming? Soon, but after the Christmas holidays (which are filled with social obligations, so maybe not even a bad thing).
Your video confirms the impression i already had in the most spectacular way: this is a spectacular synth with, like you said, lots of free room and options to go in uncharted territory, almost like a modular. Again, thank you very much for this enlighting video.
We have started receiving shipments of Hydrasynths, they are here now.
Outstanding tutorial. Perhaps the best-designed digital synth of all time?
My Quantum disagrees :) Though the Hydrasynth is very good for sure.
@@GEOSynths Ok, we’ll agree on “best-designed digital synth under $3000 of all time”?
@@MartinDoudoroffLLC Haha...Yeah, I agree with that :)
@@MartinDoudoroffLLC Nothing wrong with that, if the Hydrasynth makes you consider it as an alternative to the Quantum, not mainly because it offers a good quality-price-ratio compared to the Quantum, but because it even surpasses the Quantum in terms of new possibilities of sound design. Not saying it sounds better overall than the Quantum, but it is more innovative, imho, for halve the price.
Well explained. However, for wave scans by LFOs you should make the modulation unidirectional, e.g. use LFO1+, not just LFO1, as the mod source (or set OSC WAVE to somewhere in the middle of your set, e.g. 4). Otherwise you‘d skip every 2nd waveform.
No limits to sound design, thanks for the vid. Digital is the new cool, no need for another VA synth. Thanks for showing the revolutionary , after osc, not exactly classic approach ASM has chosen for implementing FM, Sync, Wavestack, PWM. The modulators seem like inventing a new kind of digital sound synthesis.
My hydra desktop is 2-3 weeks away. IM EVEN MORE EXCITED NOW
@* AnimalHeadSpirit * sadly.... still waiting for it. Didnt expect that I would be waiting 4 months but there is a chance it will be coming this week. I think a combination of Corona and a backorder on their end fucked the hydra supply chain. dying to get my hands on it.
Very best introduction so far. 👍
Can‘t await to get my Hydrasynth; it‘s a true milestone in synth engineering.
Shout to this dude. Great video 🙌🏻
Yes, it's a very good presentation, indeed. The Hydrasynth is a great synthesizer. I've been eyeing the Deluxe version for a few weeks now. It looks great, it feels great, and it sounds great. What's not to like?
The other contender for me is the Matriarch, which is also a specialized synthesizer like the Hydrasynth. Sure, the Matriarch is not as advanced, it has not been designed with AI (Artificial Intelligence) like the Hydrasynth, but rather with circuit diagrams, circuit voicing, and soldering iron. Actually I find it interesting that the Matriarch can complete with an AI technical tour de force. So I guess, it's not always the type of technology used that is compelling, but the level of the instrument specialization that becomes that everything-for-someone instrument, instead of something-for-everyone instruments, such as Yamaha MODX or Korg Nautilus are.
Another difference is that both Nautilus and MODX run on a customized Linux platform, while the Hydrasynth's OS (Operating System) is written (or generated) with assembler. That should make the Hydrasynth's OS a very efficiently put together system. Anyway, if they can churn out such software in matter of weeks instead of months and years, we can expect an explosion of other products from the company. I can see an analogy to another synthesizer here, the Nord Lead, which generated a shockwave in the synthesizer market in 1995. Looks like the Hydrasynth generated the same type of shockwave today. Everyone seems to have the Hydrasynth today, like everyone seemed to have the Nord Lead back in 1995.
Fantastic video. Been playing with my hydra and the sync mutant has just been breaking my head. This helps. A lot.
Congrats on an excellent video. Most in depth explanation of the hydrasynth I've seen and relating it to existing techniques was very insightfull.
Thank you for your help. I bought the Hydrasynth and I'm going through the learning curve. Thanks for the tip finding the basic Saw because I need to start with a basic wave and build. The patches are just to off the planet for my vocal driven melodies.
Please do more for the Hydasynth!
Really excellent demo, my favourite yet!
Really great vid, thanks! I just ordered one and this is great prep
AS SOON as I tried to use this Hydrasynth,it fit me like a glove..It's one of those devices that if you said you mastered it without at least 1000 hours with it,you're lying your ass off..I think I need one,even though I already have a deep Alesis digital synth......
extremely useful for learning the hydrasynth, thanks!
Reminds me of my favorite ReasonStudios Synth. The Europa Synth. Hydrasynth is pretty much a hardware version of this
Fabulous presentation, thank you so much for the crystal clear and easy to follow explanations.
Learned a lot here! Thank you! Suggestion, though: Start at D001 instead of A001, that way you don't have the leftovers from that patch hanging on in the background when you create a new patch.
Excellent presentation and tutorial. Bravo!
brilliant tutorial, thank you!
Excellent!! Thanks!!
The way the "pulse width mod" causes the same waveform to be retriggered more than once, even with fractional extra parts of the waveform, it sure reminds me of some aspects of Phase Distortion synthesis.
What an eloquent overview!
I haven't been in the store in 3 years and ryan looks like he's not aged a day...
at Burbank?
@@fjfrancois aye!!
I hope they sell thousands of these and re invest the money to produce a multi layer version.
That's the one I'll buy.
Ha, you guys thought what I was thinking. This needs to be explained more
I don't need another synt, I don't need another syntI, don't need another synt, I don't need another synt, I don't need another synt pls GOD help me ..........I don't need another synt,I don't need another synt...........mumbeling in the distance;.....................................I don't need another synt,
But it’s not that expensive used! 😂
Very helpful.
Just saved me hours. Thanks!
So I've had my hydrasynth explorer for about 2 weeks. I love this thing. Best Synth of the decade in my book. I have a simple question. To change octaves on each separate Oscillator is the Semi feature am I correct
Great tutorial, watta synth! Thx :)
Ryan looks like one of engineers from secret lab that tells you insights and results of his research, gadget is awesome, Ryan is a bit worried, and you, the protagonist, should listen carefully.
Thanks for the excellent detail of this synths capabilities . Like so many have said it’s an amazing, original, well laid out synth at an extremely reasonable price they deserve to sell a ton of them. I am tempted by it, but also, as many have said, not taking the opportunity to have an analog filter is a bit of a mistake. I have my fingers crossed this will be so successful ASM will eventually do an XL version, at a higher price point, with 5-octave keybed and analog filters and maybe more polyphony, it would then truely be a “must buy”!
how does it feel to have your dreams come true?
@@Sparks95 I think you means 70% true..it's a great synth but still no analogue filter 🤔 which is unfortunately a deal breaker for me..
I was referring to the hydrasynth deluxe? Shame that the lack of analogue filter is a deal breaker 😩
Pretty cool sounds
Wow, that's a whole load of waveforms 😉
Just wish they had some useful musical ones.
I have to admit I've resisted my primal urge to want to buy and use a hardware synth, but this one actually has something that the current best software synth (serum) doesn't, and that's an easy way to scan between two or select wavetables (it should be said that serum has dozens of features that this doesn't however). In serum you either have to set Rm or AM from B (or A if your if you're using the second Osc.) or manually import them in the wavetable editor, which is time consuming. of course it should be noted that unless you setting to an LFO or envelope so that the wave is scanning between the tables as you play, then there isn't a difference between just playing two oscillators with two wavetables. Alas I find it especially useful because morphing two tables together is often very much trial and error. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but if this synth allows for the addition of more tables (like peak or Minilogue or Prologue XD do, surely it's not that hard) then this will be a great synth. while some of the factory tables look useable, synth manufacturers' idea (humanities idea for that matter) of what makes for good wavetables is fairly limited honestly. It's still dumb expensive if you ask me, like serum and a midi keyboard wouldn't cost a third of what this costs, but hey (shrugging emoji). Also this guys vocal fry makes me want to cut myself off from society entirely.
What you forget is that your usual midi-keyboard has no polyphonic aftertouch. Just patching it to something as obvious as the filter-cutoff makes it some much more expressive. You can just play one single chord and stay on it forever while you modulate the timbre of each note individually. It has this Blade-Runner-preset - gives me goosebumps every time
Just ordered the explorer model from you guys! Things are about to get weird 🤺
asm should make midi controller keyboards with poly aftertouch. i would buy a few in different sizes
excellent video. subbed :)
Well explained. Thanks....
il sera ma prochaine et toute dernière acquisition 😍
What on earth is going on at 31:17? That is a wickedly cool sound - but after changing the ratio, it seems like all the settings are the returned to the same thing but the results are different. I’m really curious about that sound.
Thanks for a great, straightforward tutorial/demo!
"It isn't multitimbral" well now with the deluxe it is!
Is there a smooth transition when selection one sound to the next?.....ie..the previous sound still rings on the keys pressed.....on the Deluxe
Is this synth better than a Novation Summit? Thanks.
Thanks, this helped a lot! I still have questions in my head about exactly how all these things are implemented. For example, how can a mutator "sync" another mutator's output if it's already something complex like a wave stack? That seems impossible to me. Is a wave stack genuinely made of five oscillators? If so, using wave stack mode on two mutants in series would mean that "under the hood" the synth is using 25 oscillators. Or is there a shortcut cheat being used for that? So many questions... I'm going to read the Signal article anyway, to see if any of them are answered :)
28:05 and onwards, holy shit, beautiful
So algorithms are pre defined for sync like effects detuned modulation and timbre. So are the LFOS section applied by default? To the waves? For the mod wheels not just to be directed to them in a mod matrix? Peace Christo 🎶👽🐕🛸☮️At the actual non mutation level first?
There are a couple of pre-set modulation paths by default (from the first LFOs and EGs to the filters and Amps)...but modulation of everything else has to be set up through the matrix. That said, using the Module Select buttons, it's super easy to create new modulation paths: just hold your source and destination buttons and a modulation path is created instantly.
Given all the crazy parameters for PWM, Sync, FM, etc., you can actually go pretty far without involving other modulation sources. It's good to go into these sections without thinking about how they would typically work, and just re-learn what they mean in this context. In many cases, the Mutator Ratio control can be a great substitute for an LFO, for instance.
Perfect Circuit love it! Peace Christo 🐕🎶☮️🛸🛸
SOLD AT THE 28 MINUTE MARK DAMMIT
Imagine Johann Sebastian Bach got his hands on one of these...
Thank you for sharing this. :) When demoing and discussing the "brute force" modulation of the wavetable sounds, you say there's no control over the order of the waves. It occurs to me that the Step LFO could be much more useful in that regard. You could dial in whatever waves you want on a step LFO, I would think. Since we have 5 LFOs with delays, the potential for long, rhythmic sequences is pretty huge. What I don't know yet is how the LFO smoothing on a step LFO might change that wave effect. Would it still just bang through the wavetable or would it be glitchy, or could we get smoother transitions? It's something I plan to look into once I get my Hydrasynth. Anyway, I think it's possible to get some Wavestation-esque sequences running on this synth. :)
Yes, carefully crafting the Step LFOs could be a way to change the order of waves-but transitions between waves would still be sudden/instantaneous. Let's say you were switching between wave 27 and wave 59 using an alternating step LFO-if you add smoothing, it will still scan all the waves between 27 and 59 at a rate determined by your smoothing factor.
Of course, you could always do stepped modulation of the WaveScan parameter-adjusting the smoothing to taste could yield really cool results here: everything from jarring to super smooth is possible there, but just modulating the wave in Single mode is always more abrupt.
@@PerfectCircuit Thanks for the detailed reply. 😀
Thats all very well, but can it do pop piano?
I like the sound, but I don't like the layout and usage. It seems to difficult to use, confusing, too complex and too many menudiving. For example I want to adjust adsr with buttons sliders that says attack, decay, sustain and release, like they did with cutoff. I'll skip this one. Not for me.
So in general, how it works isn’t entirely clear, but it sounds great 😎 Iove mine!
still not many stores have it for preorder in the uk..ive contacted my store I usually buy from they cant get any info on it either or concrete release date..hope that changes soon .
Maybe I’m limiting my imagination here but how musically useful are these far out or as you put it “edgy” sounds? I’m wondering how one could actually apply (and in what context) these extremely unconventional sounds.
To me this seems like a great synth but I find it fascinating that alot of the features this synth has was done 16 years ago with the Access Virus TI.
28:05 Yes!!ii
Sounds great. Looks confusing. Great review. Cheers!
It's pretty easy to make both good and bad sounding patches with the HydraSynth. I really like it's development of the wave table side like the old Prophet VS. It's highlight is a working poly aftertouch keyboard. It works well. Some after market poly after touch keyboards are as much as the price of this HydraSynth itself. I've listened to all 5 banks of the free factory presets available plus 3 after market programmers I liked. My favorite patches so far are from the after market patch bank from app-sound called Hydra Galaxy. It's really good in that it sounds natural, warm, not too many effects, and really useful sounds. I'd try that collection if you own this synth or listen to them.ruclips.net/video/0jLtMvyuqAg/видео.html
is this guy still alive after this? i hope he's ok
Those PWM modes. Selling my BS2, Ultranova and semi-functional Transcendent 2000 to fund one of these. If I don't raise enough, it's bye-bye left kidney
how does it compare with the UDO Super 6?
Both are excellent synths with very flexible oscillators and modulation. The Super 6's main draw (for me) is its binaural sound, which just blew me away. The Hydrasynth sounds excellent too, but is 'just' stereo (with the effects). Used binaurally, the Super 6 is six voice, where the Hydrasynth is eight voice (with one voice potentially used up by the ribbon). Both are well build. The Hydrasynth has the better interface; frankly, it's the best interface on a complex synth I've ever seen. The Super 6 is also almost double the price.
Hello eveyone. Help NEED.
I own a Hydrasynth keybord. I am trying to record it (MIDI) on Logic X and only the cc messages can be automated while recording. Modwheel ,pitchbend and aftertouch. I need help from someone on the solution to control for example the macro knobs of each preset or any other way i can automate cutoff for example live during recording.Please 🙏🙏🙏
You have to update the firmware for midi cc messages....Ive been posting an "art of the day" segment on my channel surrounded around music and visuals using the Hydrasynth too..The things we do while in quarentine to keep positive!!
@@unkwn_io3350 Thanks for your reply. I had already updated my unit. It is solved as long as the global midi channel is 1. And i suppose omni. But my setup is complex between midi Din and USB midi routing. It is kind of weird that it doesn't send the automation in any channel the synth is set. I like your projects. Keep it up..
@@dabblerstask2131 gotcha.. yes set up is unique as well. I'm running mine through a Mio Xl as I have a lot of outboard gear.
Just wish it could have splits and layers.
EverettDudgeon138 with the amount of flexibility in the oscillators, matrix, and dual filters you can layer. With some limitations of course.
F*"k the manual, this tutorial explains all I wanna know about hydra. no trad patches for me, sonic madness. GREAT ...
Want
Waldorf I believe deserve my money
It would be nicer if that SNAP wasn’t so present. Kills the cool sound.
Kinda has a stripped version of Serum built into it...
If this puppy is digital why limited to 8 voices?
probably just a processing power limitation, maybe more voices could result in instability or lag
@Boofsquad An i9 costs over 800$ last time i checked. The STM32 chips commonly used in audio products cost about 20-40$. But if you wanna have a synth that's 800$ more expensive for polyphony, needs a complex cooling setup and uses 100W of power when idling, sure.
Viva China!
What about keyboard split?
This Synth sounds like a Buddhist monk doing throat singing😉
It's an interesting synth but I think they missed out on having analog filter and vca. That digital filter does not sound nice unfortunately.
Also weird they restricted the polyphony to 8 voices.
Will be interesting to see what they come up with in the future.
Polyphony is restricted on every synth ever. My Moog has one note polyphony, but no-one ever complained! To meet a certain price point, processor power is capped. Want more notes? Buy two and link them.
@@RobinParmar Well, why I thinks its weirdness with restricted polyphony to 8 voices is purely because it's digital synth. You have to go back to the 80s to find 8 voice digital synths.
corner liston
How often does anyone use more then 8 voices? How often, when people use more than 8 voices, can they end up doing effectively the same thing with 8 or less voices?
@@jloiben12Quite often. Even with just “simple” three note chords plus bass note and having a medium to high sustain you will end up with voice stealing.
Why the need to restrict your music? : )
corner liston
corner liston
(1) How often is that an actual problem? I understand that is a thing. What I am saying is that it isn’t a meaningful issue for most of the time that a person uses a synth
(2) Why have any restrictions? Why don’t they just put a supercomputer like the Summit into every synth? Obviously it would be nice to have more than just 8 voices but it is a much more minor “problem” compared to basically every other poly synth’s limitations at this price point
Idk still sounds like ear piercing shit to me
Very DX7 FM soundy. Didn't like the DX7, don't like this one either. Very aliased sound, cheap components with low bit depth. Would like to hear what one with exactly (functionally) the same software running on decent higher bit depth hardware sounds like.
(Not to take away from the real artistic presence of this synth, I think that it reflects the rawness, and pain, of China in its throes of modernization. I think I might buy it for its ribbon controller and aftertouch, and use its musical engine for torture sessions.}
Pixelwash impressive take. Tell me. What is the bit depth of this unit?
you must know the components are cheap- you put them in yourself,right?!
too much blah-blah^^dislike