Agreed! Nice to see somebody JUST MAKING SOME MUSIC with it!

Thanks Ed!

genres aside, i've been considering getting one of these and this is the first video i've come across with someone demonstrating sounds i would actually make & use. this channel has been recommended to me before for gear & sounds i'm into, so i was glad to see this video pop up when looking at the hydrasynth because i knew it would be something unique & relevant.

That hydrasynth is cool and doing all the work aside from a little knob turning.

Yeah thats exactly what im noticing

cool! how do you use two of them? just as a separate synths or do you connect them with midi or CV?

And ZERO BORING f***ing Ambient B***sh*t

@@AcidTechnoMan5000 the main reason I got this digital synth was to do ambient dystopic and everything else but didn't get it to do your acid trip rave stuff like that no, I got a Behringer Poly D and TD3 acid smile face for that stuff and I think it did pretty great for that but I got this hydrasynth digital explorer for everything the Behringer can't do like lay in bed and make tunes with an effects unit built in but it would be great to have a sequencer. Even Behringer knows to put a sequencer in the poly D but that Fulkerson is heavy ! The point is get digital to do eventually everything and get classics analog gear to make classic analog acid or what ever else the classic analog gear does as it's classic for a reason !

'random' + control button works in/on lots of elements. You can also use 'init' + control.

From the two BR reviews Id go with Virus

the analog modelling on the hydra is pretty great but it can be whatever you want, proudly digital like in this video or it can sound like a sweet vintage analog with poly aftertouch

They are probably the best I've used and I've owned many digital synths over the past 20 years! :)

Hydra!

It's as warm as you program it to be

it's gets very warm tho if that's what you want the analog modelling is excellent

dont you boomers have enough earwax to have any digital synth sound like its underwater and analog?

@@fart4192 how do you know how old he is?...but anyway maybe 'boomers' learned good personal hygiene so their ear training and sound design skills are intact and they don't need sample packs to make music...you should try it sometime

You wouldn't have thought so by 99.9% of other vids on KZfaq. It was this vid that sold me on it and boy am I happy! I love noise :)

You can pry it from my cold dead hands

@@blush_response hahaha

@@group-music Maybe if you are comparing synths and not software in a box.

@@VinylWave11 such a hot and dangerous take in 2022: only analog hardware are real synths. ballsy, you’re the Zelensky of synths

@@dirthawk I have many VSTs which on the right computer with a great controller provides very close to the same as a digital synth. The Moog Matriarch is such an anomaly of a synth with its semi modular patching workflow. For my sounds and the process of sound design and manipulation I find it to be immediate and refreshing. I had an iridium keyboard version ordered and was going to be able to have received it this week…I cancelled it because i just was uncertain about paying for a VST in a box for almost $5000. I probably would have went ahead with the order for closer to $2000 price point. It is hard for me to justify expensive digital synths. I am not really an analog only producer….but the sound of modular and semi modular is very appealing. Yet I do still use other digital, mostly drum machines, samplers and VSTs along side these sounds.

If this was a VST in a box, it would have a big LCD screen and a keyboard and mouse used to drag virtual sliders/knobs and select patches.. VST in box is such a tired argument.. it's a digital synth with a dedicated very well thought out hardware interface which enables a much more immediate work flow, easy live interaction, and is not prone to requiring a OS update when you switch it on or software incompatibility a few years down the line (+ it will have resale value 20 years + from now). What you pay when buying a synth like this is custom hardware - and also CV in/out MIDI in out (you can directly interface this to other MIDI devices or audio outboard gear - not something all VSTs can do). Moog Matriarch I'm sure is wonderful, but could be frustrating for some too.. personally I like patch recall even for analog synths. I would argue modular patching is actually better suited to the VST world.. more flexible, more voices, instant patch recall and no mess of wires everywhere (and way cheaper). Waldorf Iridium looks really nice, but there is a huge price difference (and I've heard some reliability issues with it). For a VST in a box (i.e.. in your PC) with modular patching and multiple layers of patches (+ MPE support) I developed Hyperion synth - check it out.

We get it, you also smell your own farts out of a wine glass. Analog sucks.