Making of Exploring a Hydrasynth Patch Evolution with Dominic Au

Dominic Au breaks down the patch used in “Exploring a Hydrasynth Patch Evolution”.
Original performance here: • Exploring a Hydrasynth...
Patch download:
www.mecldata.com/download/asm...
Cheat-sheet download:
www.mecldata.com/download/asm...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Voice
02:27 Sounds Separation & Design
09:17 Mixing
11:15 Key & Chords
13:31 Mods & Macros
19:01 Perform Techniques
22:25 Outro
#HydrasynthExplorer #AshunSoundMachines #Hydrasynth

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

The day I understand this patch video, I'll feel like a big shot.

[@malayatom2]

If I could watch stuff like this every morning w/ coffee, life would be complete. Convinced now I need the explorer to add to my 49Key.

[@RobFisherUK]

Watching this video reminded me of something I know a little more about than I do synthesisers (still learning). Here is an edited quote from page 43 of the book Hackers by Stephen Levy, describing the scene at MIT starting in about 1959 when a group of people calling themselves hackers (meaning playful tinkerer, not the modern sense of breaking into things with nefarious aims) were learning what they could do with their new toy: the TX-0, one of the first transistor-based computers: "You can create art and beauty on a computer. Samson's music program was an example. But to hackers, the art of the program did not reside in the pleasing sounds emanating from the on-line speaker. The code of a program held a beauty of its own. [...] Because of the limited memory space of the TX-0 ... hackers came to deeply appreciate innovative techniques which allowed programs to do complicated tasks with very few instructions. [...] some programs were bummed [optimised] to the fewest lines so artfully that the author's peers would look at it and almost melt with awe." There are a lot of parallels with the sort of thing that is going on in this video. The one I really want to draw is with the pleasure of taking a device with limited capabilities but many configurations, and finding out just how cleverly you can make it do interesting things. And then sharing your cleverness with your peers, and everyone learning from each other and collectively becoming more clever. This happened with the hacker community in the 1960s that eventually became the Free Software and Open Source Software movements. And I think modular synthesis in general shares these traits but the Hydrasynth too does put a lot of bits and bobs into a neat box with exactly the sort of qualities that suit this kind of hacker mentality.

[@Q-BOT]

I'm listening closely, trying to follow along with this, and then at 6:46 - "Now, let's dive into the most complex part"... You made me laugh. This is such a great video. I loved watching the performance, and seeing now how it gets broken down is amazing. It shows you guys care about inspiring your customers not just with rad hardware, but also giving high quality tutorials on how to use it in an effective manner. Thank you so much for this! In the future, it would be great to see a full performance like this broken down on each model of the Hydra-synth. It would also be great to see more on the ring mod and the Audio input functions. Finally, I'm sure some people would love to see more FM tutorials, as it's got a really powerful implementation on the Hydra synth, but it's a little different than say, a DX7. So its mysterious!

[@synthforever9336]

l'hydrasynth est vraiment une machine hors du commun de part non seulement, ses innombrables possibilité de modulations mais aussi pour son ergonomie réellement exceptionnelle ! 🤩 c'est d'ailleurs la raison pour laquelle je l'ai choisi pour la conclusion de mon home studio 😃 alors, un grand merci a toute l'incroyable équipe d'ASM d'avoir offert au monde de la musique électronique ce fantastique bijou de technologie! 😍 qui va venir aujourd'hui même, rejoindre mon set-up 😉 et une bonne continuation a vous dans vos projets de réalisation futurs. 💫🎹💫

[@muzza152]

Thankyou Dominic for posting this…Ive been waiting a while to see how you did your magical patch…this is truly awesome, and highlights the awesome things that the Hydrasynth can do…like a good wine, this needs to be watched and drunk in slowly…so that you can learn all the aspects of this great synth…this really is genius in the way you’ve put it together, so thank you once again…please, more of these kind of videos, they’re worth a thousand reads of the manual!!

[@chuckvicious]

Holy Shishkabob! Wildest most educational patch ever!!

[@michele709]

What a depth in projecting sound. Astonishing! Well done!

[@GertBoers]

Shift + macro-button! 😲 Very informative video, again. Thanks Dom!

[@malcolmjacobson6226]

Thank you so much for posting this "making of" video Dominic - very inspiring! I look forward to trying these techniques on my Hydrasynth this weekend 😎

[@vertigev]

Thank you so much for the walkthrough! I always learn a ton in these kinds of videos 🙏

[@zoukoupomme2]

Thank you for this informative lesson. With the youtube translation and the download of the patch I understood a good part. A second viewing is necessary to digest all this information lol Great patch anyway. A video on fm synthesis with the hydrasynth would please me 🙂

[@nsjx]

holy shit lolil... epic instructional 💪💪💪 Thanks a lot Dominic. You did fantastic 👏👏👏👏 Thanks for taking the time and Effort. Love my desktop AND Explorer ;) Edit: and by the way, I would love to see more advance Mutant usage tips in the future. Like various cool ways to combine them in perhaps ways that generate unpredictable yet usable results. Always thankful for advanced modulation tactics as well. Perhaps youvhave some nice tricks for combining this incredibly powerful Arp with other modulation source? Thanks in advance! oh and last but not least... perhaps some cool vids on advanced techniques with macros? rockin'

[@seamusblake]

i could never transfer the patch into my hydrasynth. It seemed to crash the hydrasynth manager. Looks like a great patch to learn from

[@spaski3]

all good and well,but what is hanging in the backside of the synth at 15:15?

[@thehowlingterror]

Great English btw.

[@RIP_Milhouse]

The audacity of this guy pretending to be human. Serious exhibition of a mega-mind here. Nice!

[@johnbeckett8367]

Hello Dear ASM Development Team : Please make a more advanced version of your Hydrasynth deluxe. With more synthesis options, a polyphonic sequencer and better DA converters.

[@ivobernasconi8255]

Classico caso di bulimia!!!