The Hydrasynth is excellent, only traded up mine for an Iridium because it had seen too much use on tracks. Will definitively get another at some point - or whatever ASM has in mind for its successor.
Which one did you have when you had yours? That’s an interesting take on how instruments become too familiar, to the point that you choose to swap for something else. To be fair, I’ve kind of done the same.
Fun tip for randomization, you don't have to randomize the whole patch. You can hold random and then OSC1 for example, and it just randomizes that section. You can do the same for F1/F2, LFOs, ENVs etc. You can also randomize even more granularly. Like set your OSC1 to a wave table rather than single wave, and then hold random and macro button 2 at the same time to randomize the wave tables but not the rest of the OSC settings. You can do it as well in the Voice settings to get a voice table setup and then use that for Voice modulations (which were added in firmware 2 and can create some excellent variance per voice for pitch/cutoff etc). I like to start an init and then random out various things a little at a time to see what shakes out.
The Hydrasynth is excellent, only traded up mine for an Iridium because it had seen too much use on tracks. Will definitively get another at some point - or whatever ASM has in mind for its successor.
Which one did you have when you had yours? That’s an interesting take on how instruments become too familiar, to the point that you choose to swap for something else. To be fair, I’ve kind of done the same.
Fun tip for randomization, you don't have to randomize the whole patch. You can hold random and then OSC1 for example, and it just randomizes that section. You can do the same for F1/F2, LFOs, ENVs etc. You can also randomize even more granularly. Like set your OSC1 to a wave table rather than single wave, and then hold random and macro button 2 at the same time to randomize the wave tables but not the rest of the OSC settings. You can do it as well in the Voice settings to get a voice table setup and then use that for Voice modulations (which were added in firmware 2 and can create some excellent variance per voice for pitch/cutoff etc). I like to start an init and then random out various things a little at a time to see what shakes out.
That’s a great tip, many thanks Jason. I’ll share the results of my experiments!