Hey Ken, I use Maschine MK3 and a Keystep (connected to the Maschine) to trigger the Hydra(its the one synth I kept when going back to DAW ). Evrything works fine (Midi Tx & Rx for knobs ,pads, & keys) except the arp doesn't work when using the pads and keys from the Machine & Keysytep respectively. What am I missing? Is it a clock thing? Right now the clk is set to auto and receiving the clock from the mascine mk3. Thx for any info. ciao
Outside the scope of this video but maybe you can answer this question: Is it possible to send the arp triggered notes via midi? key/pad presses are obviously sent but the notes the arp is triggering are not sent via midi. Is this not possible (yet, ever?) thx Sometime Im improviising and the arp sounds great but I cant capture it in my daw.
I am blessed to have found this. This exactly the topic i'm studying these days; i'm after clowning the simmons sds epb drum sound eprom recorder/burner: they called it blower. different type of companding than on the linndrums or dx/dmx/soundtraks though, on the simmons companding is analog, the d-a-c companding chips the other 4 units cited here used are very rare and dumbly expensive, as no one will buy a 100x lot for what they are selling them for, i went for sourcing to so i know. When you study things the easyest way to get how things work, imo; is to go back to the beginnings of the technology.. And i'll stop talking about this right now or else i'm gone for an hour of wrightin lol. thank you so much for this.
Awesome! I haven't seen enough of Marco. I love him in the Morpheus VHS training video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tYp1y6JKSoo.html
OMG I love this. I'm kinda obsessed with E-mu rack synths, and I've written a lot of signal processing software. I'd love to hear him nerd out more about FPGA design. Not many people work at that kind of a low level, and you run into different kinds of problems when you have one chip that's 16-bit and another bit that's 24-bit, and one's big endian, and another one's little endian, and different things have different word lengths, so it just kinda wants to scramble itself LOL. Then when you're doing stuff at really high speeds you're worrying about differential signaling and 8b10b coding. I saw him talking about how the G-chip 1.0 used DMA and that's why it could do 32 voices because it still didn't need fast RAM because it wasn't caching anything. The G-chip was 1989, and I don't think anybody really caught up with that until Roland made the JV-1080 in 1994. I think Roland was doing things very differently with the JV-1080 and all their RISC machines, but I've never heard him talk much about Roland.
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.
Great Thanks! I can' t find that sude bar with the learn button. Did they get rid of that in a newer download? Also how are you saving these midi maps in abbey roads?
Oh no, you’re down the rabbit hole now.too far past center… gonna have to keep going all the way round. Next thing you know it’s gonna be a damn police box that’s bigger on the inside .
This was an early prototype and the last product I assisted them with. I believe the sequencer was revamped before launch so I can not answer that with any degree of confidence.
I was so happy when I found this video but so disappointed when I tried it. For some reason, it doesn't work with my Bitwig Studio, or I’m doing something wrong. I set the synth to Local OFF, Param TX and RX to CC, MPE OFF, and MIDI TX to 1. I think I've tried everything, but it still doesn't work in my case. Bitwig simply doesn't see any MIDI CC from the knobs except from the mod wheel. Yeah, MIDI CC 1 works fine. Could it be something with the synth (I bought it a month ago), or DAW or am I doing something wrong?
Finally found a solution. For some reason Bitwig doesn't see midi cc values if I add a dedicated "ASM Hydrasynth" controller in settings. But adding standard "Keybord + 8 Device Knobs" resolved the problem. Thank you for the video!
@@whalespruce fwiw in my case when the dedicated "asm hydrasynth" script is selected i can use the macro knobs to control bitwig, but they need to have functions assigned to them. initialized macros don't seem to send any data.
Why are they so white and washed out. I don’t mean when it’s powered. I mean when it’s off it’s just ewww looking and it’s not as bright as the push 2 and the MPE is not worth is due to the pad not being large enough to move your finger.
I’m not sure what you are on about. You are upset because the pads are a clear white? The MPE works great for the record. Easily the best aspect about.
Hey dude grest video Soo i have tendinitis in my wrists just got a second hand push 2.pressing the pads down in sequencer mode takes allot of effort for it to engage is it any easier with pushing the pads with push 3.
I would prefer that not be the case. I made these for the Facebook community I manage. It is an incentive for users to join and help in one cohesive space. Please do not share my patches without my permission.
Very cool patches and creating a template was a really cool idea. Thanks for sharing this. Id love to see a comparison between the hydrasynth and something like a behringer pro 800, to see if the hydrasynth can do a perfect replica of real analog patches with the right tweaking. Or at least identical to the ear.
Great video and patches. I can tell you put some serious thought into creating the parameters and it's a cool concept. Thanks for making them available to us. The Official ASM Hydrasynth Group is one of the finest and most beneficial pages I have joined. Kudos to you, sir.
Awesome tip, thanks for sharing!! I wonder if it's possible to control Midi effects in Ableton with macro 5, 6, 7, 8, keeping these macros mapped to nothing in the Hydra's preset. That way I could use the Hydrasynth engine AND use some of its knobs to Midi control stuff.
I never heard of this synth until just a few days ago when I tried the Arturia version, but it seems absolutely fascinating, as well as kind of a spiritual successor to the Commodore 64's SID chip which was designed by the same people who started Ensoniq and also used digitally stored waveforms. The whole analog to digital transition era is so fascinating, and everyone talks about the DX7 and CZ101 and Alpha Juno and those are really important of course, but not everyone knows about the SQ80 or the Korg DW6000 and 8000.
yes the Ensoniq team are legends. for more info on that era I did an interview with Dave Rossum who sheds light on some of that era as well. (spoiler E-MU bought Ensoniq at one point and both were bought by UAD)
DustMans! Well done. 👍👍 I'm quite fond of making circular FM Mutant/Ring Mod 'algorithm' routings using a little Noise as an 'operator' and this is right in that timbre space