Haha! Love it!!! Specially the one with Arnold! It's fun, because YT blocked my first comment, obviously because I wrote something about touching primates! 🐒😁🍀

Peace Flux I flux wit u homie! ...& he didn't trash talk any synth down to the ground to build-up the "best" 1. We need more reviewers like this ASAP!

So? What did you choose?

@@winesynths I think the most intressting features has Modal Argon 8. All the morphing stuff is very cool, and I think it is also a total different sound than a classic Waldorf microwave. It is unique. I also understand now why you see jarre in his studio with the hydrasynth. Fits perfect his sound. Your Soundexamples was not a jarre piece but you hear this sound in his new productions very clear. Thanks again.

@@svensyntetics2830 When I made the Hydra demo I definitely had this JMJ moment! 😁 But it was definetely not intended!

Merci beaucoup Monsieur! 🍀🤓

I have to find the settings to accept aftertouch in the modwave... i hope it does not have to be set per patch like in the opsix :o

Yes! I used it to make the kick in the demo. 🍀

Yeah! It's really a cool portable keyboard! With polyphonic aftertouch! 👍

Thank you very much! You‘re welcome! 🍀

True words! Modwave is a real parameters grave and a bit flat, while Hydra is well structured and always sounds fantastic! Great synth for starters! 👍

Yeah! If it‘s your kind of sound, go for it! I just did not really appreciate the whole touch and feel of it. The other day somebody offered me a broken DW-8000 that I now have to restore. Back to the roots! 😁

Does this synth have free run on oscillators? I need synth for trance music and I'm thinking about modwave or hydrasynth explorer and don't know what to choose

To me, they all sound kind of „digital“! And I was defintely not searching analogue sound here. In any case I would recommend something „really“ analogue alongside! Can be Moogspensive or Behricheap! Doesn’t matter! Hydra and Matriarch is a great combination! Or Maybe a Model D or a Monopoly. Also guitar pedals can contribute a lot of analogue „brizzle“ to this kind of synth. 🤓

this was a good vid. i wanted to comment to your argon8 pondering. when that was first released, i was excited about the features. then i heard it in all the video reviews. it sounds hazy and thin, actually all the modal stuff is not to my taste. hard to describe, like looking through a slightly hazy window. and he talked about slow envelopes on the Argon. i have 2 analogs (barp2600 and a deapmind12) with envelopes that can snap. i have a theory about the 3 types of synths and why these digitals dont sound rich to me. analogs are analog, instant and just there. romplers/sample players process their sound basically instantly, just converting it since it is already there, and just run it through the amp and effects with few other processing steps. pure digital synths need many clock ticks to shuffle the bits through the registers through each step of the signal path through each section of the synth, starting with the wavetables or oscillators themselves. by the time the sound makes it out the converters, it has gone through millions of clock ticks, and IMO, this super micro latency adds up to something that cant be distinctly heard, but rather a smearing or hazing that thins and cheapens the sound. i love almost anything i have ever heard that uses a moog grandmother for example, and i really like my couple of analog synths and romplers because they sound great and rich and clean and sharp yada yada. these synths dont. I do wish i had the hydra deluxe keyboard with the strip, just not the hydra. i also really like the modwave performance features, but after getting a wavestate, i want nothing further to do with that keyboard which is also on the modwave. it is a bogus mid-size which just doesnt fit well and the keybed is really flimsy feeling. Worse, it is only velocity sensitive which is just asking to be broken if you are doing velocity stuff becasue thats all you can do SMH. korg needs to make modules or something you can actually perform with. FWIW, i'm waiting on the next gen of digitals. from here on in, it is only more powerful processors and more mature coding. the iridium is a good start in that direction IMO, but it has processor limitations as far as i understand. i do love that screen. so i'm getting squared away on my other synths while i wait for the digitals to mature some more. i would get a polybrute right now today vs an iridium is what i'm saying. haha

Yeah the Argon is a cold sounding synth, just what I was looking for, since I already have a Juno-60 and a DeepMind12 for the warm sounds.

@@MurrayDagostino i exchanged my Argon 8 yesterdag for a Modwave, exactly because Argon sounded way too cold for me. Modwave is way more on my alley and yes, i have Deepmind 12 for the really warm sounds :-))

Thanks for the idea! I don‘t know this one! 🍀

Paraphonic, analog, sounds great. Very good value.

@@aquaticborealis4877 But has bugs and the one i tried had a sound artifact that could be heard if the Filter was lowered

Often less is more in music production! Thats true! 🍀🌻

Come on! 😁

Ok! Episode 2 next year? But I am not really a Waldorf guy. I had the MW1 back in the days and never really used it for production. But I would really like to try the M!

​@@winesynths I hear you, but Waldorf is synonymous with wavetables. The M and Iridium are much to expensive for this comparison: but the Blofeld, while old now, is still being sold, and is one of the most famous wavetable synths in history.

huh? there are quite a few very successful artists that almost exclusively use presets...

That's what my comment was gonna be. Seriously, the last 30 years has been literally presets

Ja wenn man Spass an und Verwendung für Lofi hat, ist der Synth ja auch gar nicht schlecht! 😁

@@winesynths Haha, ja. Dann ist er ein Fass ohne Boden. 😁

What features does the Modwave have over the Hydrasynth?

@@PhrygianPhrog 32 voices in stereo, X-Y pad with third dimension (they call it Kaoss Physics) - a smart way of adding Z-plane to 2D surface controller (not original idea, but new to Korg, and I wish Electribe 3 would have it if there ever is one coming up). Also for me it's the software integration with the PC and I prefer larger keys, even though I appreciate polyaftertouch on Explorer and overall, probably one of the best minikeys out there (certainly better than microkorg, monologue or JD-Xi or JD Xm!). I like the motion sequencing lanes on modwave, but i wouldn't call it superior. Explorer has got Mutators which are very cleaver and flexible in what they do. Also having dual displays is a big win.

@@mack_solo Thanks for the rundown. I have the Hydra desktop, which is great, but have had my eye on the Modwave recently because of those cool features. Maybe they will release a VST version like they did with the Opsix.

@@PhrygianPhrog Yeah I'm looking forward to that also 😀

The envelopes can all independently control osc levels. so thats not really valid. and they can route to multiple places with varied amounts and in a bipolar fashion so it doesn't "cost you an envelope" ... odd to count that as a gripe, what hardware synth handles that better? the 3rd osc is essentially a sub osc but with full oscillator control. if you are running out of envelopes or lfos with 5 envelopes and 5 LFOs the envelopes can be configured to act as lfos, and the lfos can be configured to act as envelopes .... then you have 2 layers with the deluxe so you are getting into 20 envelope territory lol

@@Fluxwithit lol I was hoping to see you comment on this! Love it!

​@@Fluxwithit 🤔

as the video said - it lacks de oomph

@@AlistairMaxwell77 Yes, and the factory presets (the "sound") are also much better than the others. I forgot to write this. That's why Modwave is better. And ridiculously cheap for that. Behringer could learn from Korg.