Hydrasynth Explorer notes

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Ongoing notes on the Hydrasynth Explorer (manual) to help me remember how to do things with it as I swim deeper into synth worlds. First off, some user interface and own particularities:

  • Orange buttons = selecting something. Repeatedly pressing orange buttons goes through different pages
  • White buttons = doing something
  • Hold Shift & press buttons with orange letters under them to select orange letter things
  • Main Systems = Browse, select, favorite, save, initialize and randomize patches, and system setup
  • Master Control & Module Select = main place to do sound design, contains secondary display
  • Knobs = encoders
  • Home = home view, macro display
  • Exit = Exit current view going back to previous one
  • Oscillators 1 & 2 = Identical, Single waveform or Wavescan mode, latter meaning you can pick waves from a wavetable and morph between them
  • Oscillator 3 = Single waveform mode, simplified oscillator, has ring noise options
  • Mutants = Effects applied to raw output of oscillators instead of end of signal chain
  • Mixer = Many options like soloing individual oscillators, specifying whether the two filters run in parallel or in series, etc
  • Amp = Bring volume of patch up (also Drive/Morph) among other things
  • Env = Envelope (attack, decay, sustain, release, etc)
  • Lfo = Low frequency oscillator, a wave below human hearing range that can be used to modulate the sound. Basically simulates you turning a knob continuously in a certain way, maybe very quickly, or slow as honey

Access favorites

  1. Hold Shift and press Browse.
  2. Use ▼ Page ▲ buttons to pick your favorite patch on secondary display, press number by the favorite’s slot.
  3. Press Exit or Home to return to main menu.

Assign favorites

  1. Be on your patch: Make sure the patch you want to save is currently loaded.
  2. Press the Browse button.
  3. Press ▼ Page in the Master Control & Module Select section to go to Page 2. Press 3 under FavAssign.
  4. Use ▼ Page ▲ buttons to pick your Bank (A–D), and then press the Control Button (numbers 1, 2, 3, or 4) under the slot you want to assign it to.
  5. Press Exit twice to return to main menu.

Browse patches

Press Browse, use big knob under Main Systems to select a patch.

Browse by category:

  1. Press Browse.
  2. Turn knob 4 by screen under Master Control & Module Select to select Find By Category.
  3. Turn knob 3 to change category, then use big knob to select patch.

Cancel action or go back to prior page

Press Exit button in Master Control & Module Select section.

Save patches

  1. First, press System Setup and turn knob by Protect so value is OFF in screen under Master Control & Module Select.
  2. After making modifications to your patch, press Save once and select destination in screen under Master Control & Module Select, the press Save again.
  3. If you want to overwrite the current patch, press Save twice.

Warmer analogue sound

  1. Press Voice (top right).
  2. Turn knob by AnalogFL in Master Control & Module Select to increase the value.
  3. Press ▼ Page and turn knob by WarmMode to ON position.

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