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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am working on a little ambient track with nothing but Hydra sounds. Stay tuned.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm really enjoying having a set of keys that are so inviting in terms of performance and expression, the poly AT, the ribbons, the nice availability of knobs to mutate the sound in a really useful ways.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I like it so much that I have replaced it as my main keys now :-), the Kontrol mk2, even with more keys, is on the side now.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- mohsen</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, June 15, 2020, 05:46:09 AM PDT, Jay Vaughan <ibisum@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Well, a few weeks later, and my first impressions have evolved a bit.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">How are you guys getting along with yours? Mohsen, had a chance to bang at it yet?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Its a very versatile synth engine. The Mutators are a great way to describe hard-wired modulation capabilities. Having them encoded in the oscillator flow like this is clever, and sensible.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It is *so* nice to not only have a synth with MPE/Polypressure, but also the ribbon strip and mod/pitch wheels are very nice to play with. I find myself reaching for the ribbon controller when I play other synths now, which is a bit frustrating. Getting that muscle memory factor, I guess.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The Wavestack is awesome - I wonder though if it works in a similar fashion to that of the Korg Wavestate, in terms of being able to morph between up to 8 different waveforms per Oscillator? I’d love to have a comparison session to see how this is implemented by both synths, side by side. I’m also pretty impressed by the range of the filters - they can be cold and hard and digital, like sometimes is nice, but then easily swing out to the other end of the ‘warmth’ scale, too. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are bugs though - I’ve managed to hang the panel/UI a couple of times with various monkey-tapping operations. Seems like they’re going to be releasing bug fixes in the near future, though - another digital synth that gets monthly updates, lol.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Looks like we’ll be getting the desktop version at Sky Studio as well - one thing that is clear after playing the Hydra for a while, is that it sure does lend itself to a synth-expander style composition setup. Wish they’d do a 19” rack mount version, haha.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Anyway, working on a tune that will be all-Hydra - will post when its ready.<div class="ydpa0cb4af1yqt7390641866" id="ydpa0cb4af1yqtfd15454"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">j.<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">music-bar mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <<a shape="rect" href="http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html</a>></div></div></div>
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