Asm Hydrasynth Keyboard Digital Wave-morphing Synthesizer (8 Voices)

The highly flexible ASM Hydrasynth Keyboard 8-Voice Wave-Morphing Synthesizer features an easy-to-use interface with minimal paging and workflow shortcuts, well suited for any sound designer and performing musician. The proprietary ASM polytouch keybed provides the usual velocity-sensitivity and aftertouch, but also supports full polyphonic aftertouch.

With its advanced wavetable synthesis engine, the Hydrasynth features three oscillators per voice with dual Wave Mutators, two series or parallel multimode filters, five LFOs, five looping envelope generators (DAHDSR), a 32-slot modulation matrix, advanced arpeggiator, comprehensive CV/Gate, MIDI and USB MIDI I/O, and dedicated pre- and post-FX plus reverb and delay.

Each of the three oscillators allows you to choose from a selection of 219 single cycle waveforms with wave-morphing capabilities on Oscillators 1 and 2. The Wavelist mode allows you to choose eight waves from the bank of 219 and arrange them in the order of your pleasing and morph from one to another. Oscillators 1 and 2 feature two mutators each, allowing you to modulate, bend, and sculpt the sound in new (and old) ways.

The first filter has 11 different filter models, giving you multiple options for tailoring your sound. The second, a 12 dB/octave filter, has a continuous sweep from lowpass, to bandpass, to highpass, similar to the way the classic Oberheim SEM filter works.

The five LFOs feature 10 standard waveforms, plus a Step mode that allows you to create patterns with up to 8 steps. Having 5 mini step sequencers gives you an amazing amount of possibilities for further shaping your sound. The LFO's all have delay, fade in, 3 triggering modes, smoothing, start phase, and one-shot mode, so they can act as envelopes and sync to a BPM.