Hydrasynth Firmware 2.0 - Introduction

This video introduces the news functions and features added to the Hydrasynth 2.0 OS update.
For a full description of all the features, visit www.ashunsoundmachines.com and download the 2.0 addendum manual.

[@DarnKatarn]

The Hydrasynth Deluxe was my first serious synth. It's changed my music life, and I'm grateful to see it grow into an even more spectacular instrument. Thank you so much ASM!

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

hahahaha Glen loves pushing that (admittedly fantastic) manual to learn about this synth!!

[@AshunSoundMachines]

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[@garrettschwindt7478]

I just want to extol my appreciation for this company and machine. Until 8 months ago all I’ve ever played was acoustic guitar. I got the hydrasynth deluxe as my first ever synth and while I’m still learning and underutilizing it, the extent to which it’s changed my life is immeasurable. I’ve finally been able to tap into this creative urge I’ve felt for 32 years to make music, and the hydrasynth has opened up possibilities for expression I’ve never thought possible on my own in my bedroom. It is one of my most prized possessions I own and I look forward to learning and growing alongside it for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for making such a stellar product.

[@CanadianReset]

I love the subtle but nice repeated reminders to read to manual haha. I'm going to try to use that method at work. It's a great manual btw. As an aside, I've had my HS for about 2 years and since I bought it, it totally killed my GAS. Rather than buy anything new I just spend a few more hours experimenting and learning the HS. Still feels as new and fresh as the day I bought it.

[@WokeUpScreaming]

I'm going to university in September and they have the explorer there and I cannot wait to get my hands on it!

[@Jegkedermigmega]

Lovely job, Glen. This really cements the already well-established fact, that you're in tune with the owners of the synth, and what they request. Looking forward to seeing what the future brings for you and the synth :)

[@ScottWozniak]

Thank you so much for expanding patch storage! Feels like Christmas! 🎅🏻🎄🎁

[@ryanelliott197]

The value of these synths is incredible and you guys keep making it better

[@78thandSynth]

Thanks for this. I had trouble with changing out banks and will be happy to join in. The explorer has been such an amazing machine. Great work.

[@csharp57]

You guys fix a MAJOR problem I was having with my hydrasynth when I plugged in into my MPC X. Many thanks!!!

[@schragemusik]

Many thanks, Glen, Ken and team. A great update. Very happy here.

[@RayyMusik]

Fantastic, particularly the additional memory banks and the voice modulators which will vastly help to achieve an even more analog sound. Thank you so much, guys!

[@Dartagnan65]

First thing I thought about the voice modulators was... Is it just offsets?! - What about multipliers!? (x0.76, x3.27) But I ask for a lot. And I don't even have one.

[@SpeakerNoise]

Thank you so much for this update! And your dedication ❤

[@Geepstar]

Who needs a manual with good tutorials. 😎 Thanks for the update. Everything installed just smoothly. The bitreduction looks really cool! Combined with the quantized LFO's will give great results.

[@Demoulous]

My Hydra just got even more awesome. Thanks Glen and team!

[@freeradt]

I am just beginning to explore all the options of the Hydrasynth it is amazing!

[@nsjx]

Thank You All So Much for cont. development!... And I LOOK FORWARD to digging into the Manual!

[@mrcassette]

You guys are amazing!!!!!! Great updates, very excited to dig into them.

[@BlackBlofeld]

Superb sound, monster sound engine and a silly price for what it offers. A serious synth without any doubt. I'm buying/playing/programming synths for near 40 years, and I was amazed from the overall quality (features/sound/hardware/price-wise) of my Hydrasynth Explorer. Hands down one of the very Top synths around in any synth & price category.👍 Keep up the excellent work guys!👌

[@Observe-n-Learn]

Thanks for your commitment to improving and supporting your products with software updates. Hydrasynth Deluxe is the best synth I've ever bought. R.

[@theaudioeng]

Awesome Glen & team. Massive, useful FW update here. 👌

[@pjohns92]

Mine's been in storage for the past year whilst I was between places and I'm so happy to have it back out again

[@crazyhorse52395]

Voice modulation!!!! Been praying for a way to do per-voice variations since I picked up my explorer, its one of the only feature I felt it was lacking. Bless you, ASM!

[@dustincassidy]

Wow! Looks like an awesome update. I think I’m most intrigued by the per voice variations. You could get some very organic sounding patches with that.

[@0richbike]

Respect. Looking after your products and your punters. Defo the next keyboard I'll buy..start saving!

[@lunarthyme]

so excited about the bit reduction!!! This is something I've been hoping for since I fell in love with my HS keyboard 2 years ago.

[@RJ_Eckie]

Looks great!! I personally like sustain as a mod source, but all updates looks really useful 🙏🏻

[@aceboo7541]

Excellent update ❤ Just a suggestion: the upload of personnal waveform would be incredible in the next update. This one is already amazing

[@dmitribovski1292]

Wow thanks Glen & ASM you really are an example others would do well to learn from.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Hooray 2.0!! Thanks for your hard work, y’all!

[@1980VINZ]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much Glen and all the ASM team………… Love you guys!!!!! Big salut 🫡 from France 🇫🇷 ViNZ

[@TomMadisonSoundsLewis]

What a superb update!!! Can't wait to update mine and get stuck in!!

[@dcashley303]

THANK. YOU. THANK. YOU. THANK. YOU! Already loved my Desktop and recommend ASM to people and it just keeps getting better. Amazing.

[@chrisedu]

that's the reason why I love this brand so much! Thanks ASM!

[@ralph_s]

Thanks for the update! I'm happy Local off is now saved, it was annoying to always change it back to off manually.

[@Whistler-007]

Finally!

[@JyotiMishra]

The Hydrasynth(s) are future classics, thank you for some of the most fun I've had playing synths in over forty years. Also, big thank you for making a 73-note PolyAT keyboard, you put Moog and Roland etc. to shame.

[@SoundsAndGear]

Congrats on the release, great update!

[@AshunSoundMachines]

Thanks Joe!

[@Wagoo]

Thanks for the update - the Hydrasynth is excellent :)

[@carlosvargas894]

This is HUGE! Thank you guys!

[@skrie]

Bravo guys. Hydrasynth is the gift that keeps on giving.

[@AndyFirebladeMuza]

Amazing Firmware update. Thank you ASM for this great update. Thinks it's time I got my self another Hydra.

[@jakubkostynowicz1745]

Great update! BTW - I would love the feature that would allow to hold poly-aftertouch values (with a press of some key) - it would work great with arpeggios, when you are happy with specific pressure/ modulation on every finger

[@donaldpriola1807]

I swear, I'm going to buy you a RTFM t-shirt. ;) Thanks for the additions. The Hydra desktop is the best synth for the money, hands down.

[@DarrylMcGee]

Great update, and I see the MRCC back there!

[@MUNRO13]

Really like that envelope quantise!

[@bo-bodad8253]

Great work!

[@BappinProductions]

Solid update, thanks!

[@dustjacket8996]

I really really love my Hydrasynth!

[@wernerhaider2338]

oh- another RTFM challenge from Glen... accepted. 🙂👍

[@ohjainam]

Thank you Glen 🙏

[@GrahamEnglish]

Fantastic! I ❤ my Hydrasynth!

[@JasonMauer]

Thank you ASM!

[@RadekPilich]

Hydrasynth 2.5 - we have added slew parametr to morph between smooth and quantized LFOs, ENVs, OSCs 🤯

[@issiewizzie]

wishing you good health

[@Mikerty391]

Hydrasynth is the best dollar for feature polysynth out there. killing it!

[@sapinit4322]

Great update, thanks

[@saloon.studios]

This is excellent. It would also be great someday to have the "phrase" arp mode in the menu changeable to a proper sequencer mode. Super basic like the Matriarch even-

[@rcmusic35]

congrats! pretty amazing!

[@shey87]

This is amazing! Best 650€ I've ever spent!

[@PhantasmMask]

Expanded bank storage is a godsend. Thank you

[@9877joseph]

Being able to write our own phrases would be cool!

[@uwe_bike]

Great, thanks! "No more tape needed" - I love it 😆

[@CaptainProton1]

Tap tempo bypass awesome but the osc detune variables is really important...thankyou

[@remotevision4068]

Local-off can now be saved! Better late then never, thanks GD!

[@thefool2007]

This is AWESOME! Hail Hydra.

[@voodoohex72]

Thank you!

[@GertBoers]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@2ndattention]

Damn I just got an Explorer two days ago…. very serendipitous! I am testing it out as a potential replacement for my Arturia Minifreak, which is a lovely synth but does too much “hand holding” for my creative brain. This update takes it over the top! The only suggestion I have now is that the delay and reverb could work as send fx as a secondary option to the dry/wet mode. Thank you!

[@visible7044]

what is the difference between send and dry/wet in this context. shouldn’t you be able to get the same level or mix using dry/wet as you would a send?

[@2ndattention]

@@visible7044 depends on how it's programmed. For instance with the Arturia Minifreak bringing up the Delay or Reverb send does not "mix out" the dry signal but simply makes both in equal volume, that way even at the highest setting the original dry signal volume remains the same but you still get the trails or delay feedback when the send is rolled back, hence "send". Right now I have to apply gain compensation when the mix knob goes anywhere above 50% to get the dry signal to be near where it was. Using sends will not get you 100% wet signal though. They just have different use cases and it would be a neat feature IMO.

[@waveforthefrequencies]

Lovely! 🥰

[@AngryPhotoGuy]

Those quantized envelopes seem like they could be really fun.

[@stevenyjtsai]

cool, I will upgrade my hydrasynth to v2.0 soon.

[@vishnudh1216]

Gotta love ASM

[@klstay]

I know this is not the first time getting this request, but poly unison please. Everything else is just amazing.

[@johnnyraphaell]

Wow i like this voice feature!!!!!!!

[@EnricoCosimi]

great!!!

[@feli_sara]

Thx!!

[@stevenyjtsai]

Could setup more step of Pad light? Dim1-4 are still not enough. Maybe 1-6 or 1-8

[@watchaddicts1213]

Hi Glen. So happy for you and your [well-deserved] success with the Hydrasynth. My question: Do you think it will ever be possible, via firmware updates, to assign one preset to the ribbon controller, while the Keys play a different preset? Thanks! Mark

[@mikemorrisonmusic]

YES!!!

[@ranzee]

Great work guys :) be nice if you could put time markers on the contents :)

[@Eceptes]

So true read the manual

[@DOOMJESUS]

COOL.

[@HonorV2ultimate1tb]

Is there a smooth transition when selection one sound to the next?.....ie..the previous sound still rings on the keys pressed

[@simonlegrec]

Top Synth

[@e-conrecords4665]

Would really love an octave split on the keyboard for Keys & Explorer like the Sequential Take 5 so you can have bass and lead zones available at once without having to access the octave pedal… and the option to map the 3 oscillators across the keybed.

[@gz625]

That's would be pretty fair stuff over multitimbrality

[@e-conrecords4665]

@@gz625 yep and I don’t believe it would be too hard to do.

[@OmniTorch]

Bad ass!

[@TedBrownMedia]

Is there a way to acquire the new manual in paper form from asm?

[@tronovan3d]

Neat!

[@jakykong]

Future update idea: onboard scale and tuning updates. These can both be imported but having it onboard would be much more convenient. Also, I wish I could use mod inputs as an oscillator,e.g. to pull in a modular synth patch. Lastly a comb filter mode on f1 would be amazing 🙂

[@jakykong]

This is of course in the spirit of always growing, since this update is already awesome 🙂

[@joshuamorganmusic]

Glen and RTFM😂 srsly tho, it’s a great manual. Really helps understand what the heck this synth is capable of

[@glendarceyaudio]

Read The Free Manual

[@joshuamorganmusic]

@@glendarceyaudio hahahaha! Good one!

[@upexe]

Awesome ! Thanks very much for the update ! One question - does anyone know how to see/check what firmware version your Hydrasynth is using (in my case the desktop) on the unit itself ? Was expecting to see version number displayed on startup screen but this is not the case. Thanks !

[@AshunSoundMachines]

system setup menu last page

[@upexe]

@@AshunSoundMachines thankyou !!!

[@agua9362]

Its a great update - Hydra makes even more fun now! But i wish for a "patch step back" possibility , when i hit multiple times the random button (to create a random patch), it would be nice to jump to previous random patch settings. It often happens to me that i thought ... man this patch was great but i jumped over it by hitting random again ;)

[@agua9362]

the reverse way by holding random and then shift for example to go back to the previous random generated patch ...

[@carbonio14]

Who's else is experiencing the issue where the synth would sometimes produce harsh static or other noises when scrolling through factory patches? Back to 1.5 firmware and updating to 2.0 firmware doesn't resolve the problem. Mine is a Hydrasynth keyboard got few days ago.

[@AshunSoundMachines]

If you have a problem like this , you should certainly contact our support via [e-mail]

[@midiphonic]

Local off state saved! 👏👍🥳

[@djjuno106]

Come on glen bring us another synth!!

[@wavesequencer]

Great update! I’d love to see at least one single assignable control data slew/filter function that can be applied to mod sources and for which the output could be used as a mod source itself.

[@davlippo7]

I updated and got defective voices with ear piercing noise and static.

[@alejandroadame141]

good stuf.... is there any free bank patches available?

[@uubrmanx]

Is it possible to have polyphonic unison modes on this synth (stacking two notes together and thus having 4 voice polyphony instead of 8, for instance)? EDIT: Nevermind, you CAN do it in 2.0, thanks to the Voicemod feature! Having the Hydrasynth control itself by plugging both ends of a midi cable into it (or having a daw send X midi channels over USB works too), and having every other voice be a slightly different pitch via voicemod works too!!!

[@klstay]

Are you stating that by plugging a MIDI cable from the out back to the in on the Hydrasynth it will trigger 2 voices when hitting a single key in poly mode? (One from the local keyboard and one from the incoming MIDI which also happens to come from the local keyboard)

[@uubrmanx]

@@klstay Yes, although I've found that sending two notes at once through a daw using an extremely short midi delay works better with having both notes play different sounds though.

[@klstay]

@@uubrmanx thanks for the response. The primary goal for me is the standalone ability to hit keys and send that to the pair of voices next up - 1&2, 5&6, etc. All the odd voices will be set at 64 for various parameters and even -64. Then use pairs of LFOs and EGs with inverted macro ranges over phase, delay, depth, etc. Much more to set up/manage than binaural mode on a Super 6, but also a lot more possibilities.

[@uubrmanx]

@@klstay Also, I discovered a fix for the occasional note sounding "off" - set StMode to "Rotate", which also affects what note is played next!