UNBOXING : When you power-up this keyboard the light show is amazing . Looks like the control panel of a spaceship . Wow ! THE SOUNDS : Everything from huge analog lowend to solid usable pad patches to soaring synth arpeggiated highs . You can use this board for both your worship platform and for that movie soundtrack you have been itching to write . PROGRAMABILITY : Welcoming and simple to dive into . So much is at your fingertips . Kudos all around here . ONBOARD EFFECTS : Spot on digital delay and reverb . Your electric guitar players will turn their heads from looking down at their pedalboards . FEEL : Poly touch key bed puts “ musicality and feeling ” back into the keyboard ’ s feel . Between this and the mod wheel and bender you can make this synth talk . VALUE FOR THE MONEY : HydraSynth Deluxe $ 1,799.00 . Five stars here . From simple to complex – a college education in synthesis awaits you .
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SPECS : ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe 73-key Synthesizer Features :
• 73-note virtual analog synthesizer with polyphonic aftertouch
• Combines multiple synthesis methods like wavetables , linear FM , WavePWM , subtractive , and more
• 16-voice polyphony , with 3 oscillators per voice and 4 Mutator waveshapers total
• Layer or split two 8-voice patches in Multi mode ; crossfade between patches with balance control
• 7 types of Mutator waveshapers : FM-Lin , WaveStack , PW-Orig , PW-Squeeze , PW- ASM , Harmonic Sweep , and Hard Sync
• WaveScan oscillators offer a total of 219 waveforms
• Dual filters : 1 multimode ( 11 types ) and 1 variable LPF-BPF-HPF , with series / parallel routing options
• 5 envelope generators ( ADSR ) per voice with delay , hold , and looping abilities
• Envelopes can be locked to BPM ( MIDI Clock ) for tempo-synced modulation
• 5 LFOs per voice , with 11 waveforms : Sine , Triangle , Saw Up , Saw Down , Square , Pulse27 %, Pulse13 %, S & H , Noise , Random , and Step
• Powerful arpeggiator with 8 modes , including chord and phrase modes
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