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@Crawlingwind Thank you so much and that’s an awesome story! I bet that was a blast. The raw tone from it is to die for!
Also, being able to use iOS midi apps to control it via a simple usb cable has been ridiculously fun too!! It’s like there’s a built in arpeggiator, sequencer, etc with a handy touch screen interface 😎
Have you put out a video on this thing? Was just watching your 707 piece again, very good (thank you!)...
I’ve done some stuff where I use the boxes together. They’re synced via regular MIDI DIN. Only the AK is hooked up to the PC and overbridge at the moment. I try to just name the patterns on the various boxes with the same name and AK/DN/DT in there somewhere, to indicate what other devices I was using. Typically though, I mostly stay with one box, making a track using only that box, limitations and all. I find it more fun to stay within the limitations of the boxes, especially the AK which on paper only got 4 voices..
I would really love a Hydrasynth - the keyboard one. Too rich for my blood at the moment, though!
I owned :
All sold and at this moment this is my studio configuration :
The Hydrasynth is connected to the audio-in of the Iridium, this way I can stack the sounds of them. Audio-out of the Iridium is going to the audio-in of the Polyend Tracker, using this for sampling and creating tracks on the Tracker. This is a very flexible way of routing and music creation. My heart is close to ambient/drone music, but other styles are of course possible too.
To be honest, I miss the Octatrack a lot. So there is a good chance I will buy one again.
Yep, it's on the Tube.
@Jonah66 I'm GASing for the Pro 3 and HydraSynth Desktop and mostly talking myself out of buying either.
..but if you were to choose one..?
Vintage synths still singing:
Moog Source
Seq. Circuits Prophet 600
Roland JP-8000
This is my kind of roster, I had the PO-12, PO-32, gave them to my kid with a Volca Sample (for some reason...).
Got the Rick and Marty sampler and an NTS-1.
Also have a Nord Micro Modular, which is pretty awesome and odd (requires a 32 bit computer to make patches...)
Want Basil Drum
Volca FM
And most of what else is listed on this thread
Own: Digitakt, Digitone
Want: Analog Four, Analog Rhythm, Octatrack, Polyend Tracker, Polyend Medusa
Korg Kronos successor please...not a new colour or watered down Nautilus...something radically new after 11 years nearly now.....please......
Have you seen what Pajen did to the Sample? Truly incredible. His firmware for the FM is similarly very impressive
Probly should have kept Sample but I will pass on the note about the cool firmware to my kid.
You reminded me I want Volca Modular...damnit I want stuff
My main iPad + Hardware setup currently (more beat oriented). I try to keep it simple and live-focused:
I also have a fair number of FM Synths, a few 19" racks, some 90s midi romplers, and some pedals that I used for more ambient works. I use to use my iPad solely with Lemur running (overdesigned) custom templates. Wasn't very stable though and took a ton of work. Now I'm waiting for a few more Drambo updates to improve controlling external midi gear, then I'm going to do a lot more experimental midi abuse of old hardware
I am really happy with my Macumbista Butterfly Benjolin. It suits my chaotic taste and interaction with hardware. About a year ago I ventured into the land of Banana-jack-synths. They are more playful than minijack format stuff.
Had a doubleknot and a cocoquantus 2, sold them but kept the plumbutter2, acquired a phenol. But I always come back to the Butterfly.
Lusting after a Korg Wavestate now but will probably still spend most of my time on the butterfly.
Definitely the Hydra, I bought mine after returning my Pro3 and I think it’s a much more flexible and better sounding synth. IMVHO.
Ha - me too, although I absolutely don't remotely need one
I'm simple. I also like space-saving. Currently, all I have is a MonoStation.
I'd like...
For poly: Peak
For mono (Eurorack): Lifeforms SV1
For mono (keys): Grandmother
For mono alt weird shit (Eurorack): Plaits
Gassing for...
Only wanting a Typhon right now, otherwise enough toys to play with.
For keyboards I have an old Korg R3 (massively underrated IMO, although the downsides are very real) and a Moog Sirin (lovely “bread and butter” analogue but truth be told I’m a bit bored of it). I also have an OP-Z and Electribe 2s, both of which are kind of “keyboard-esque” and are good overall but have some serious design flaws that I would be more than happy to rant about.
Aside from my trusty Jazzmaster, 2006 Deluxe Memory Man reissue, and a set of Ludwigs that I haven’t been able to play since 2014, I don’t have any gear I’m completely happy with. Guess I’d better buy more and hope for the best 🙄
I have an Arturia MicroFreak, a Novation Circuit and four Volcas: Modular, Keys, Drum and FM (Pajen Firmware). I use a Zoom F8 as mixer and audio interface, it's nice that the iPad sees it at Multitrack, makes it so easy to record and use it as FX unit.
It's crazy how flexible this setup is and no wonder that so many use this combination.
My 3 keepers:
Yamaha TX-7 (DX-7 tabletop)
Kawai XD-5, which in kit-mode is a drum-expander, in single-mode a synthesizer playing 1 voice over 88 keys
Casio SK-1, sampling toy keyboard with cheezy drums, additive synth and phrase recording
Recently found a cool setup for the TX-7 together with KQ-Dixie:
), so both synths load the same patch and in AUM each one is panned slightly to it's side of the panorama. 
the latter becomes the bank manager and controller (graphically...
Since the synth engines are not exactly the same, the result is similar to doubling as done with guitars.
Saves me from deciding which one sounds better...
ps: had to learn that (sysex) real-time control of the XD-5 only applies to single mode... you can‘t tweak drum instruments while they are used in a kit, oops
I get the flexibility in the range of cross modulations you can apply but on the one hand I worry that it might just consume too much time because of the amount of wizardry that can be tinkered with but also the Youtuber Ricky Tinez makes the Pro 3 sound so damn cool, like it has some extra mojo built-in. It comes across as some kind of organic instrument somehow.
I'm surprised you feel the Hydra sounds qualitatively better though. More voices, more ways to mangle it, sure, but actually better? Obviously you have owned both and you are a trusted pair of ears round these parts so it just makes me pause to think that maybe the Hydra has some presence that doesn't necessarily come across from watching video demos of it.
A bit of rumination and soul searching is called for. No need for me to rush and I'm not a big hardware consumer so it's probably best if I take my time watching more demos. (Yours have been great by the way, very thorough)
I think the feature set of the Pro3 is great, but the sound of it never really grabbed me the way say.... my OB-6 does. Every time I turn the OB-6 on I find myself getting sucked in and grinning at some of the tone I can get out of such a "simple" synth.
For that much money, I want the same experience with the Pro3, and I just never had that. It just had this sort of dull tone a lot of times and lacked some sparkle on the high end, some grit if you will. I don't know, probably just me, but while I was super impressed with the functionality and the looks of the synth (I had the special edition), but the overall sound of it just didn't grab me.
The Hydra can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be, it doesn't really feel like a rabbit hole when programming it. Quite the opposite in fact, it's super quick and intuitive, MUCH more so than I ever expected. They UI is one of the best I've used, pretty amazing for their first synth, though they have some experience engineers designing it too.
What I don’t understand is how we’re nearly in 2021 and there’s no such thing as a patchable poly synth, that uses patch cables. Imagine something like a 2600 but polyphonic analogue and patchable. Obviously ways would have to be found to allow a patch cable to patch polyphonic signals but that’s not hard, it just means departing from the expected 3.5mm jack into something else that can carry 6 signals + earth, and be easily plug innable and outable. It’s do-able. If you wanted to make it a digital synth it could be doable with fibre optic cables.
That’d be a revolutionary shake-up for the market.
Hydrasynth, but the full keyboard rather than the desktop, would seriously trade my Pro 3 for the Hydra keyboard version.
Home sick the last couple days. So I ended up spending time with Hydrasynth videos. Very impressive synth!!
Arturia Microfreak... would you consider it a nice option as a first piece of hardware?
(Its usability as an aftertouch midi controller is also highly appreciated :P )
I hear you, but personally I think the portability of the desktop model fits my needs better. Not sure the ribbon controller is that much of a draw and I can plug in a big old electric piano via MIDI if I ever need to play it that way.