ASM HydraSynth Creating a Pad Sound from scratch

ASM HydraSynth here I create a pad sound from scratch. I explore the polytouch keybed as well as the Mutants, Filters and FX. This is a workflow video to give you an idea of how it feels to sound design on this synth. follow @Flux302 on instagram for more.

[@hazmatproduction4562]

Love this synth so much. My first hardware unit. I love just getting lost in the instrument without having to look at what’s going on on a PC screen. Had many a good sound design session with this beast now.

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

This synth is more compelling than any of the new Roland releases.

[@thedarkestrainbow]

Heathcliff Ripping off my fingernails and peeling a lemon is more compelling than any of the new Roland releases.

[@InkyDaCaT]

@@thedarkestrainbow 😂🙌

[@impurfekt]

An entirely new synth vs old synths on a memory card inside an expensive MIDI controller.

[@RayyMusik]

SteeVtheRipper 🤣 Best comment I‘ve read this year. Can’t stop laughing. 😂

[@redmission1984]

Yes! I love vintage synths, ROMpler VSTs, and emulations as I do mostly retro-style synthwave music. But Hydrasynth is a gamechanger. It's so inspiring to sit and play with. At $799 for the rack, it's a very good price for what it does and how sturdy it is. I'm blown away by it.

[@redmission1984]

Never heard of this new company or synth until I somehow stumbled across it last week online. I listened to a few videos, and got the desktop version today! This thing is solid construction, has a beautiful aesthetic, and the capabilities are super deep. I love the lights around the knobs and the feel and layout of it. It's like Serum, but even more inspiring, and in hardware form. It's like what every synth in the past 10 years should've been! I look forward to ASM's future products, and hope this company does well. Super happy with this thing!!

[@cgereueu]

Especially for the price of $1299 US, which I think is insanely good for what you get. This is a one of the most impressive and innovative synths you can get.

[@Fluxwithit]

I can't lie, during consultation I was asked what I felt it should market at .... I said far higher than what they went with. I was amazed they went with this price point. happy for sure, but shocked.

[@digitaldiezel5870]

I'm really excited about this system...I feel like we have an advanced, and unique, set of features for a realistic price. I don't feel like its waaay too much to spend on a hobby.

[@derykmoates377]

This thing has gotten me more excited about synths than I’ve been in awhile, so great!

[@redmission1984]

It's amazing! Just got mine delivered from Alto Music in NY today. No sales tax unlike Amazon. 😉

[@auntjenifer7774]

@@redmission1984 do you still play it and did it meet your needs .

[@synriser6742]

Finally a digital synth with hands on control and that sounds really good.Looks intuitive to me. Thanks for the overview.

[@arrhythmicjones4069]

Thanks! Really deep and wonderful! In the running for best synth of the year, and that's saying something this year.

[@redmission1984]

It would be deserved, assuming it gets noticed and picks up in popularity. As much as I love Korg, Roland, Novation, etc...their products have been a bit boring recently. ASM gave us something new and fresh. 🤩

[@WingHouseCup]

This reminds me a lot of the Ultra Nova. Def more knobs and some extra functions, but similar programming workflow and end results. I sat down in front of it the other day and just like you I thought, "I should make some pads with the wave tables". Good times in outer space.

[@Fluxwithit]

Alonso H yeah definitely some ultranova influence in there as well. Take a look at my ultranova videos and you can see I love the ultranova as well. (Even went so far as to create a patch library for it.)

[@IRONSILVER22]

This is wild. Plus that ui seems very refined.

[@vertigev]

This is great man, thank you!

[@garaughty]

Epic work on this Ken !

[@macronencer]

Haha! I just learned that "LFO n+" means unipolar. Thanks! Only had this thing a week and I keep discovering new stuff :)

[@youcaillou]

It is all about UI (User Interface). I understand that some people keep repeating that anything digital could potentially be crated by a VST. Agreed. But programming the VST would probably not be an easy task. This synth is the most intuitive and deep UI I have ever seen. And as with every good UI, once you see it, it does not seem special. But it is ;)

[@Fluxwithit]

imho anyone saying "but its just a vst in a box" doesn't get the joy of hardware at all... and thats fine. let em live that sorry existence... ignorance is bliss.

[@redmission1984]

Haha. I like to blend them all...VSTs, samples, loops, digital and analog hardware. That's the joy of electronic music! 😍

[@fosferus]

love this series of patch walk throughs ken. nice work. good sounds and learning some new tricks, thanks!

[@fully_privatized_mass_medium]

This video taught me more than any other I've seen here. Genuinely helpful and informative without the masturbatory synthfluencer production. Thank you so much, I hope you do more of these.

[@ZombieTactics]

It’s really capable of some lovely stuff.

[@InkyDaCaT]

Yep good synth fair price! Thanks Flux!😁🙌🎶🎶🎶

[@renechaigneau]

Thank you Ken this video helps a lot understanding this beast

[@abseconshorescommunityasso506]

Dude, not for nothing but you're very cool. Love your shit.

[@Fluxwithit]

though I don't know that I can agree with you, I very much appreciate the kind words lol

[@abitpoet]

sonds good and presentation was clear

[@Ryahan]

Really appreciate your videos, especially integrating the synth with the DAW etc

[@N-trepid1]

Excellent video :) You pretty much sold me on this synth. Love your creative process and straight-forward explanation of HydraSynth sound design. Polytouch and ribbon? Touchdown!

[@Fluxwithit]

James Hall thanks :)

[@PeterPrism]

Alien stuff bro...

[@ganjabudweedful]

got damn you have a whole soundtrack with just the sound at 22:00

[@stenlyspa1325]

wow! so nice sounding pad!!! thanks for sharing/showing what this synth can actually do! i just was wandering - sorry if is not the right place to ask this question - can you use the note-off midi action as a trigger, triggering for example envelope or retrigger lfo?

[@corridor444]

Appreciate ya

[@DoctorJRx]

Ken we gonna have hearing loss from this synth !!

[@lawrencevaughan5373]

How does the keybed feel?

[@jimsarji6078]

Would you please make a video with all the factory sound patches and presets.

[@Fluxwithit]

Jim Sarji I’m sure someone else will do that. Not really my bad to just run aimlessly through other people’s presets.

[@vanhavirta]

19:40 Say this patch was a short pluck type, could you then assign this reverb freeze to the sustain pedal? Thinking of simulating more polyphony than 16 notes (a glissando over the whole keyboard would be an extreme example).

[@damondarkwalker]

When you out-Waldorf the Waldorf.

[@YasinNabi]

Hey sir, I found your channel very useful and worth watching :) thanks for sharing :) a fellow creator./././

[@valeriolaghi7014]

It remind me the Animoog

[@rantsantatheradicalradishe3345]

Hey does anyone know if you can add user-created wavetables to Hydrasynth, or if that might be available through future system/software updates?

[@Fluxwithit]

RantSanta & the Radical Radishes you mean user created waveforms (all the wavetables are user created as they are a sequence of up to 8 waves with 10 points of morph between each wave) no there is no user waveform import at this time.

[@fromfilmtocode]

How am I supposed to resist getting it for quarantine and chill? I don't like impulse buying but..

[@johnhorrobin8560]

Can you tell me if the depth parameters have musically related values since the values range 0 - 128 and not say percentage values similar to the Waldorf Blofeld I. E. 8 12 16 24 etc. - thanks J Horrobin UK

[@Fluxwithit]

JOHN HORROBIN depth wouldn’t be a valid value to quantify in that way. That being said, things like ratio can be snapped to relevant harmonic ratio values.

[@corridor444]

Hydra vs matrix brute pound for pound who wins, I know it’s apples and oranges but what is the better synth?

[@Fluxwithit]

corridor444 that’s a really hard question because they are both super fun to create patches on. I’ve grappled with this thought as well because I was fortunate to work on both projects. If I could only keep one... which would it be ? Probably they hydrasynth because it has more depth synthesis wise. Matrixbrute has that very “alive” vco sound and I love its sound. But the hydrasynth just goes so deep and yet is still immediately programmable. That being said.... I’m not giving my matrixbrute up for anything.

[@crhkrebs]

Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit they both are the perfect complement to each other.

[@davebellamy4867]

Now the Polybrute is also in the mix! I believe that and the Hydrasynth have designers in common. Both look and sound fantastic to me.

[@amsterdamob]

so besides the obvious differences/advantages (performance ability, keyboard, etc.) what makes this better than a good vst? maybe it's a dumb question, but im seriously considering shelling out the cash for this bad boy. Does this sound better than a $200-$500 softsynth?

[@Fluxwithit]

amsterdamob I have to ask a kinda odd question first. Have you ever used a proper hardware synth in your set up?

[@amsterdamob]

@@Fluxwithit yes! Two of them even.

[@Fluxwithit]

amsterdamob ok so then I would ask, why do you have hardware synths? I mean software can do pretty much any sound these days.

[@impurfekt]

Hands on control is really the only difference. For me that's worth the cost and space.

[@amsterdamob]

Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit well they are analog synths, so they arguably have a distinct sound. Don’t get me wrong, I want the hydrasynth baaad, I guess I’m trying to feel out if it’s justifiable for me.

[@jaredf6205]

It sounds like you have a Philadelphia accent.

[@Fluxwithit]

Wilmington Delaware born and raised

[@dabpiy]

thought the same, up in Southampton (Philly)! about to get the 49 keys board, seems the best, even after 2 yrs!

[@neuron05]

It sound like it has a low pass filter on it all the time, no high frequencies. Why is that?

[@Fluxwithit]

LOL this is literally the opposite of what the bulk of the comments have been. might wanna check your system?

[@BIG_PASTA]

Low quality KZbin compression perhaps?

[@dergeneral7768]

how to save?... protection is on!

[@Fluxwithit]

Der General turn protection off!

[@dergeneral7768]

@@Fluxwithit can you explain how? sry first day hydrasynth

[@uhoh007]

A single part digisynth that always has this annoying edge it seems. Sounds like my TI on a bad day, LOL.

[@Fluxwithit]

I’ll put a hydrasynth up against a TI any day. TI has horrible aliasing all over. But ok.

[@alphabeets]

Too bad this audio is in mono. Such a missed opportunity.

[@Fluxwithit]

alphabeets not sure why it’s in mono, was uploaded stereo... very odd