I bought the original 49-key Hydrasynth as soon as it was announced, and did the same thing when the Deluxe came out. I LOVE the Hydrasynth Deluxe, I use it on virtually everything I do. It's an absolute dream to do sound design on, sounds fantastic, and can do just about everything you ever want in a synth.
this one and the Arturia PolyBrute are hermit-inducing and are well justified in moving off-grid (with a steady supply of electricity from the ..uh ..um ..grid)
Didn't get a chance to play on this one. I like the epic synth strings in the beginning. Sounds like something that would play great on a Sci-Fi movie like Prometheus or Avatar. I like the Arp Sequence at 6:55 with the split layer on top. Very nice sound combo. Well played
One of the few synths that has got me excited since I sold my Jupiter 8 many years ago. I think there's a very good chance this may become my new baby! 😎
Great stuff Jim, sounds good here! Now, the Hydrasynth is not analog, but from this video I realized the split does a lot, and I should stack two of my analogs so I can use them together with both hands. Cheers! :)
The Hydrasynth sounds so analog for being a digital synth. I mean...fff.😳 Every patch sounds impressive to me. I wish I felt the same for the Kyra, for which I waited long, agonizing years and was totally disappointed by its sound
I have the original Hydrasynth..You can make it sounds super analog (Sometimes I can't tell the difference between it and my MatrixBrute), very digital and cold sounding or super crazy with it's wavetables and massive matrix.
Damn, Jim! That very first patch is absolutely epic. Finish that piece, will ya? add some big percussive splashes (like timpanis), a few notes of an ethic-sounding flute with a long reverb and vibrato, maybe some ambient drums drone and call yourself Vangelis! Very good playing and demo-ing👍 RIP Vangelis.
Korg Wavestate + Hydrasynth Deluxe + MPC Live 2/X/One = awesome sauce trio for DAW-free arsenal of sound design and song creation. Any other gear in addition to those would be a bonus. Just saying 😉
Have the Hydrasynth desktop and now wanting a Deluxe. This synth is just beautiful beyond anything I've had before; Korg Triton studio, and a Kronos in the past. However, neither of the korgs ever made me feel the way the Hydrasynth does. The hydrasynth are absolutely beautiful and I'm grateful to have found this wonderful unit. Now to find a way to fund the synth addiction heheh
Without wanting to play on words, here you are comparing workstations with a synthesizer. I think the advantage of the Hydrasynth is to have a lot of controllers dedicated to sound manipulation, which makes it easier to use than the Kronos, but it's not the same type of machine.
Ok...this awesome demo just pushed me toward wanting this awesome Synthesizer. Are these patches actually on the board as factory patches now? Great job. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.
These were patches that were in the model there on the floor. I was basically preset surfing with some minor tweaking of some of them. It’s a beautiful synth
Definitely. And these were just presets mostly, though I tweaked some a bit. Unfortunately you don’t get too much time on a show floor so you go with what’s there. But I think the possibilities with this one are off the charts.
Since some days there is a Hydrasynth Desktop on my desk. Great instrument but ... phewww 😓... the sound programming is a new dimension. There are so many ways to modulate and manipulate a sound. There are lots of presets that sound wonderful but to create your "own" is always a challenge (and fun) 🎼.
It sounds amazing, but I think that's personal preference. I thought the new 'Third Wave' synth sounded even better, but I think Hydrasynth wins on value for money in both cases.
@@wavesequencer I'm not " officially " on the pre-order list for the 3rd WAVE, but am awaiting the paper work ( email ) from Bob to make it official. They say first shipments are scheduled for mid August, and could even be a bit sooner than that. Between this and the OB-X8, I will be done buying for a long time. I really need a 12 step group and intervention. Seriously.
I sold my hydrasynth 49 for a Waldorf iridium. I love my iridium! However I did miss the hydra! It’s a beautifully designed instrument. If coconut chocolate pudding had a sound, this is it. I’m toying with trading my iridium desktop for an iridium keyboard version but for the same upgrade price I could just about afford a hydra delux. They are similar but sound distinctly different. The iridium is a lot more powerful but I’d Love to control it with hydra! Hmmmm!!! Here comes Santa Claus
Very nice. Not something I want right now though. I'm still too enamored with my Kronos. That and I don't have the budget. But if I did! I'd be out getting one!
If only they would add some way of making that interface work with VSTs (and let manufacturers/hobbyists put the glue together) that would be absolute killer and a total must have
@@yavamaystudio8045 yeah thats pretty good hardware integration, i use it with my system 1-m. but you're limited to whats on the front panel. with the hydra if you could tell it what text/cc to have on each page, depending on the VST that would be amazing. i hate fecking about with mice when doing music.
@frank saraceno I'd love to think so but it will never happen. even after all these years the audio software market is so hopelessly fragmented its an embarrassment. VSTs work. thats it. no coherent patch management with previews. Really annoys me, like its all an immature system
@@kierenmoore3236 some are - some are literally actual headless Steinberg format VST instruments usually running on a custom Linux build with a custom hosting app and hardware panel drivers. Others (most at the moment) are custom DSP(any embedded CPU) or hybrid FPGA/CPU implementations running on much less featured RTOSs. So no - not all digital synths are VST in a box.
If a digital synth uses an FPGA then it is not a VST in a box. It can render the waveforms at MHz frequency and then downsample to audio range to eliminate aliasing. Good luck doing that on a computer. Older digital synths were often dedicated chips per function, oscillators, filters, amp, they were not VSTs in a box either. When we moved to DSPs that when you could argue that.
@@6581punk Yes.. thankyou!... Being super pedantic here because I am a developer, but just because you have an FPGA doesn't mean it has to be running everything at super over-sampled rates - it's up to how you define the usage of it as a programmer.. it's just a very good/common use of FPGAs for synth implementations since they are great for that kind of parallel acceleration of voice processing. My own VST3/AU plugin (Hyperion synth) can run up to 32X oversampling on a modern PC/Mac without any issues (which technically would be mega-Hertz range internally before down-sampling) .
Summit is really cool too. They have a lot in common actually. Both sound great. Summit does not have the polyphonic aftertouch keybed or the ribbon controller though.
I would be elated to have either. A Summit just sounds good. A Hydra needs to be patiently dialed in. Thing is, it CAN be, though most of these online videos don't show that.
I bought the original 49-key Hydrasynth as soon as it was announced, and did the same thing when the Deluxe came out. I LOVE the Hydrasynth Deluxe, I use it on virtually everything I do. It's an absolute dream to do sound design on, sounds fantastic, and can do just about everything you ever want in a synth.
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My only gripe is with the sound output level, it's a bit low.
@@6581punk on the Hydrasynth Deluxe?? It has the hottest, loudest outputs of virtually all the synths I own!
The Ultimate soundscape Synth. I afraid I would be locked away in my music room for countless hours, never to see the outside world again!
this one and the Arturia PolyBrute are hermit-inducing and are well justified in moving off-grid (with a steady supply of electricity from the ..uh ..um ..grid)
@@BarryWarne "hermit-inducing"😂 you're the man!
It’s a classic synth already IMO 🙌🏼
Incredible sounds, Vangelis like
Didn't get a chance to play on this one. I like the epic synth strings in the beginning. Sounds like something that would play great on a Sci-Fi movie like Prometheus or Avatar. I like the Arp Sequence at 6:55 with the split layer on top. Very nice sound combo. Well played
Wonderful demo Jim!!
Its like UVI Falcon 3 encapsulated in beautiful hardware 😍😍😍
One of the few synths that has got me excited since I sold my Jupiter 8 many years ago. I think there's a very good chance this may become my new baby! 😎
Great stuff Jim, sounds good here! Now, the Hydrasynth is not analog, but from this video I realized the split does a lot, and I should stack two of my analogs so I can use them together with both hands. Cheers! :)
Mine has been living in its box since it was shipped in February. Looking forward to unpacking as soon as my studio space is completed :).
take that big baby out and put it in your lap! It needs attention
Lol positron. That's blasphemy!
Open that box right now and make some love to that machine! 🤣👍
Very nice, I have the Deluxe. Would be interesting to know which patches, or how these patches are called.
The Hydrasynth sounds so analog for being a digital synth. I mean...fff.😳 Every patch sounds impressive to me. I wish I felt the same for the Kyra, for which I waited long, agonizing years and was totally disappointed by its sound
I have the original Hydrasynth..You can make it sounds super analog (Sometimes I can't tell the difference between it and my MatrixBrute), very digital and cold sounding or super crazy with it's wavetables and massive matrix.
Damn, Jim!
That very first patch is absolutely epic. Finish that piece, will ya? add some big percussive splashes (like timpanis), a few notes of an ethic-sounding flute with a long reverb and vibrato, maybe some ambient drums drone and call yourself Vangelis! Very good playing and demo-ing👍
RIP Vangelis.
If I ever have the space and the cash, I definitely want one of these. Until then though, I'm pretty happy with what I already have.
Korg Wavestate + Hydrasynth Deluxe + MPC Live 2/X/One = awesome sauce trio for DAW-free arsenal of sound design and song creation. Any other gear in addition to those would be a bonus. Just saying 😉
Have the Hydrasynth desktop and now wanting a Deluxe. This synth is just beautiful beyond anything I've had before; Korg Triton studio, and a Kronos in the past. However, neither of the korgs ever made me feel the way the Hydrasynth does.
The hydrasynth are absolutely beautiful and I'm grateful to have found this wonderful unit.
Now to find a way to fund the synth addiction heheh
Without wanting to play on words, here you are comparing workstations with a synthesizer. I think the advantage of the Hydrasynth is to have a lot of controllers dedicated to sound manipulation, which makes it easier to use than the Kronos, but it's not the same type of machine.
The patch at 5:30 sounds beautiful 😍
Very nice demo by Jim! These are fantastic synths.
Thanks John! I want one of these.
Fantastic demo Jim!
Thanks Paul! This is easily one of my favorite synths of the last several years. I'm glad I got to spend some time with it at NAMM.
@Arturia... Imagine a hardware version of Pigments, with a similar concept, including the keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch
Waldorf iridium.
Nice work, Jim.
Thanks Matt! I WILL have this synth sooner or later. It’s a beauty.
Nice artful playing
This is my dream synth!
Ok...this awesome demo just pushed me toward wanting this awesome Synthesizer. Are these patches actually on the board as factory patches now? Great job. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.
These were patches that were in the model there on the floor. I was basically preset surfing with some minor tweaking of some of them. It’s a beautiful synth
Love this thing. Such a cool synth. And you get a spot to place some FX pedals or a laptop or something 😄
Coffee
Beautiful sounds ! Are they all stock ?
These were patches that were in the unit when I played it
I just want one
Why do I want this synth too? Seriously, what a machine! Great sounds!
Very nice! Great sounding synth.
Layering De Lux 👍
Definitely. And these were just presets mostly, though I tweaked some a bit. Unfortunately you don’t get too much time on a show floor so you go with what’s there. But I think the possibilities with this one are off the charts.
These patches come with the synth or did you create them yourself?
Since some days there is a Hydrasynth Desktop on my desk. Great instrument but ... phewww 😓... the sound programming is a new dimension. There are so many ways to modulate and manipulate a sound. There are lots of presets that sound wonderful but to create your "own" is always a challenge (and fun) 🎼.
Am I the only one not impressed?
@@edoardoschnell what do you think its lacking - it sounds laaarge
@@edoardoschnell probably
Nice!!!
Vangelis would be proud 😢
He passed away a few weeks ago
that sounds amazing
Is it just me or does Hydra sound better than the new Oberheim!
Does the Hydrasynth Deluxe sound better than the new Oberheim OB-X8 ???? I guess it depends on how you are feeling that particular moment...
It certainly sounds different. I enjoyed playing both but I did enjoy playing this one more.
Certainly capable of Oberheimy sounds plus a lot more, and all wonderfully expressive.
It sounds amazing, but I think that's personal preference. I thought the new 'Third Wave' synth sounded even better, but I think Hydrasynth wins on value for money in both cases.
@@wavesequencer
I'm not " officially " on the pre-order list for the 3rd WAVE, but am awaiting the paper work ( email ) from Bob to make it official. They say first shipments are scheduled for mid August, and could even be a bit sooner than that. Between this and the OB-X8, I will be done buying for a long time. I really need a 12 step group and intervention. Seriously.
2:27 he did not recognize Enolagay - OMD
yes I did, but I wasn't going to risk a copyright strike was I
@@EarmonkeyMusic OK Cool! Just checking ;)
I sold my hydrasynth 49 for a Waldorf iridium. I love my iridium! However I did miss the hydra! It’s a beautifully designed instrument.
If coconut chocolate pudding had a sound, this is it.
I’m toying with trading my iridium desktop for an iridium keyboard version but for the same upgrade price I could just about afford a hydra delux. They are similar but sound distinctly different. The iridium is a lot more powerful but I’d Love to control it with hydra! Hmmmm!!! Here comes Santa Claus
great. I have the desktop. are you selling these patches
These are patches in the synth. But the Deluxe has dual engines so you won't get these on the desktop
Anyone else from ‘Synth Memes’? 😀
Very nice. Not something I want right now though. I'm still too enamored with my Kronos. That and I don't have the budget. But if I did! I'd be out getting one!
If only they would add some way of making that interface work with VSTs (and let manufacturers/hobbyists put the glue together) that would be absolute killer and a total must have
Omnisphere ?
@@yavamaystudio8045 yeah thats pretty good hardware integration, i use it with my system 1-m. but you're limited to whats on the front panel. with the hydra if you could tell it what text/cc to have on each page, depending on the VST that would be amazing. i hate fecking about with mice when doing music.
@frank saraceno I'd love to think so but it will never happen. even after all these years the audio software market is so hopelessly fragmented its an embarrassment. VSTs work. thats it. no coherent patch management with previews. Really annoys me, like its all an immature system
Sounds like a next generation plugin.
It's like a VST in a box, in a very good way.
Fully digital synths ARE a VST in a box, n’est-ce pas?
@@kierenmoore3236 some are - some are literally actual headless Steinberg format VST instruments usually running on a custom Linux build with a custom hosting app and hardware panel drivers. Others (most at the moment) are custom DSP(any embedded CPU) or hybrid FPGA/CPU implementations running on much less featured RTOSs. So no - not all digital synths are VST in a box.
If a digital synth uses an FPGA then it is not a VST in a box. It can render the waveforms at MHz frequency and then downsample to audio range to eliminate aliasing. Good luck doing that on a computer. Older digital synths were often dedicated chips per function, oscillators, filters, amp, they were not VSTs in a box either. When we moved to DSPs that when you could argue that.
@@6581punk Yes.. thankyou!... Being super pedantic here because I am a developer, but just because you have an FPGA doesn't mean it has to be running everything at super over-sampled rates - it's up to how you define the usage of it as a programmer.. it's just a very good/common use of FPGAs for synth implementations since they are great for that kind of parallel acceleration of voice processing. My own VST3/AU plugin (Hyperion synth) can run up to 32X oversampling on a modern PC/Mac without any issues (which technically would be mega-Hertz range internally before down-sampling) .
I'm so happy that i bought a Novation Summit instead.
Summit is really cool too. They have a lot in common actually. Both sound great. Summit does not have the polyphonic aftertouch keybed or the ribbon controller though.
@@EarmonkeyMusic and a more "classic" engine. The Hydrasynth has a lot more range in its sounds with the mutators and stuff.
We get it, Heinz. You don’t like the Hydrasynth. Why are you here, then?
I would be elated to have either. A Summit just sounds good. A Hydra needs to be patiently dialed in. Thing is, it CAN be, though most of these online videos don't show that.
@@mikemorrisonmusic For you ❤️
don't like it. sound too digital. plugins will do a far better job.
Damn bruh
Because it’s a digital synth 😂