ASM: Celebrating Our 5th Anniversary with the Hydrasynth Keyboard & Hydrasynth Deluxe Silver Edition

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"Celebrating our fifth anniversary milestone in stunning style, the ASM Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition are each limited to 200-unit runs."

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ASM Introduces Hydrasynth Deluxe in Silver

Six and four octave versions. Interesting flap on the six octave.

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ASM applies celebratory ‘cosmetic facelift’ to Hydrasynth Keyboard and Hydrasynth Deluxe to form 5th Anniversary Silver Edition models

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA/HONG KONG, CHINA: Ashun Sound Machines (ASM) is proud to celebrate its fifth anniversary as a company that is passionate about using technology to create exciting products that spark creativity by introducing two-limited edition models of its Hydrasynth digital wave morphing synthesizer with proprietary ASM Polytouch® technology to provide responsive velocity and expressive polyphonic aftertouch — applying a celebratory ‘cosmetic facelift’ to form the aptly-named Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition — at SUPERBOOTH24, May 16-18, FEZ-Berlin, Germany…

Certainly celebrating its fifth anniversary milestone in stunning style, ASM’s Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition are each limited to 200-unit runs that will surely become highly-sought- after collector’s items, prized by serious synthesizer aficionados. Appropriately, each limited-edition model boasts a sparkling silver finish with a custom 5TH ANNIVERSARY SILVER EDITION print on the top panel, duly distinguishing them from the ‘standard’ Hydrasynth Keyboard — launched in 2019 to widespread critical acclaim as a digital wave morphing synthesizer featuring an ASM Polytouch® 49-note polyphonic aftertouch keybed and a user-assignable ribbon controller — and Hydrasynth Deluxe — itself offering a dual sound engine setup and the largest (73-note) ASM Polytouch® polyphonic aftertouch keybed to date upon its introduction in 2021 — models that are still going strong today thanks to regular firmware updates; by that same token, Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition’s custom-made side panels prominently feature the HYDRASYNTH logo, while both synths ship with a Certificate of Authenticity showing the unit number — not forgetting, of course, the silver sticker that is included in both packages.

Applying a fine finishing touch to the celebratory proceedings, ASM has closely collaborated with a carefully chosen team of specialist sound designers, duly including an exclusive custom patch bank on both limited-edition models to further commemorate its fifth anniversary as a company that is passionate about using technology to create exciting products — products that definitely don’t come much more exciting than Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition!

Anyone attending SUPERBOOTH24, May 16-18, FEZ-Berlin, Germany is invited to swing by Booth H205 where ASM is introducing Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition, exhibiting them alongside their ‘standard’ synth siblings for all to see and hear. However, anyone wishing to buy a Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and/or Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition will have to practice a little patience — but rest assured they will be well worth the wait.

Expected to ship in June 2024, Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition and Hydrasynth Deluxe 5th Anniversary Silver Edition will be available to purchase — priced at an MSRP of $1,649.00 USD ($1,449.00 USD MAP)/€2,049.00 EUR/£1,799.00 GBP and an MSRP of $2,149.00 USD ($1,949.00 USD MAP)/ €2,649.00 EUR/£2,299.00 GBP, respectively.

Hydrasynth Keyboard 5th Anniversary Silver Edition shares the same specifications as the ‘standard’ Hydrasynth Keyboard.

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Prymnd - Studio Session | Progressive Techno - Sequential Pro 3, Moog DFAM, ASM Hydrasynth, Yaeltex

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"Dive into the soundscape of Prymnd - an ever-evolving journey through various soundscapes of modern, live-performed Techno."

Bad Gear - A new FOE has appeared

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"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Synthesizers can be considered a mature technology. Traditional manufacturers focus on the regurgitation of classics, market disruption is limited to design overkill and process optimization and real innovators are crushed by the relentless economics of this oversaturated niche.

Today we are going to talk about Hydrasynth. This range of next-generation synthesizers caused a hype that usually only comes with the release of Scandinavian hipster gadgets and depending on whom you ask they’re either the CS-80 of the 2020s or a harsh and digital sounding testament to the demise of a culture."

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:58 Overview ASM Hydrasynth Explorer
01:43 Oscillators
02:14 WaveScan Technology ( Wavetable )
02:28 Synth Engine
02:45 Ring Modulation, Noise, Mutators
03:29 Filters
03:57 LFOs, Envelopes, Modulation Matrix
04:24 Macros
04:35 FX Section
04:55 Random, Chords, Arpeggiator
05:11 Connectivity, Cinematic Patches, Models, Build Quality, Thanks
06:29 Hate
06:50 Jam 1 (Bass Patch)
07:46 Jam 2 (Downtempo)
08:47 Finale (FX makes everything easier)
09:20 Verdict

Novation Nova 2 ASM Keyboard Synthesizer

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Daydreamin' With Ray Barbee by Exploredinary

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"Travel with our friend the legendary pro skateboarder, photographer, and musician Ray Barbee. Explore a beautiful spring day in Long Beach California while day dreaming to the sounds of the Hydrasynth Explorer."

ESK - Akai MPC 5000 Delay Looping 2

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"Looping session with an old Viscount R64S PCM drumcomputer, ASM Hydrasynth and an Akai MPC 5000 Sampler.
Was again a lot of fun to do this video.
What I did is to use the 4 effect buses of the MPC 5000 with delays with high feedback. So it’s like a 4 channel looper. Interesting is to change the delay time, that results in some digital stutter effect, which are nice.
My Viscount R64S (same as R64) doesn’t work with sync (needs s-trigger clock), so i started and set the tempo manually. Furthermore I used a Filter after the Viscount R64S, because the 50Hz hum was quite loud.
But I like a lot the sounds and the preset beats of this sample drummachine.
No external effects, only soft mastering.

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Asking synth manufacturers to say the F word...at London Synth & Pedal Expo

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"Being a collection of interviews I shot at the London Synth & Pedal Expo '24, after they hired me to cover the event. The format was up to me. So I put the SAME two questions to industry folks at the show: 1️⃣ What is your favourite thing you sell? 2️⃣ What your favourite thing you DON'T sell?"

CHAPTERS
00:00 The Journey Begins
00:41 Divkid
02:44 Endorphines
03:53 Knobula
06:07 Lord Morts Thoughts
08:29 Nick Batt - Sonic State
11:29 Signal Sounds
14:35 ASM/Arturia
16:52 Scanner & Daniel Troberg
18:12 KMR Audio
19:51 ALM Busycircuits
24:05 RYK Modular
26:14 Enjoy Electronics
27:41 Erica Synths
29:04 PWM Synths
31:08 Journey's End

Good people make for good events and good gear, so lets meet them // London Synth & Pedal Expo 2024

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"What an amazing weekend we've just had! Here's a video with some of the people at the London Synth & Pedal Expo 2024. Held over this past weekend (Saturday and Sunday the 16th+17th of March 2024) in Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, the London Synth & Pedal Expo is a free to attend show with plenty of synths, modular and pedal FX on show for people to come and play with.

As it takes good people to make good events (and the good gear we love) I wanted to focus on the people, asking who they are and what they do, more specifically how would they explain what they do to someone with no idea about synths, pedals and music tech. That led to some funny answers, all spread around various bits of b roll and footage from the event."

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The journey into the world of sound continues!

Hydrasynth Explorer is a powerful synthesizer with huge potential and an incredible variety of sounds, this time we will dive into the world of pulsations, neon lights and cosmic space with "Imaginarium Vol.2".

In the bank you will find: leads, plucks, poly, arpeggios, pads and basses.

"Imaginarium Vol.2" brought together the warmth of retrowave, pulsing movements and the depth of space.

40 amazing presets are waiting for you and ready to fill your compositions with new colors and inspire creativity.

Suited for all modern genres of electronic music: retrowave, ambient, trance, house, classic electronica, downtempo.

We put all our effort & inspiration to make this patches suited for many genres & styles of electronic music.

Every patch of our soundset is musical & can be immediately used in your tracks & production."

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