Sound Creation

3x full-fledged Oscillators draw their basic material from 219x Waveforms, with Oscillators 1 and 2 also providing Master Wave Scanning, which allows up to 8x Waveforms to be crossfaded or morphed. The Oscillators can be further shaped via 4x "Mutants"; besides FM, 3x different types of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Hard-Sync and Harmonic Sweep, there is also Wavestack. The tool-kit is rounded off with a Noise Generator and the Ring Modulator.

Modulation & Controller

5x loopable DAHDSR Envelopes and 5x synchronizable LFOs with several Waveforms and Trigger Modes including a sixth Vibrato LFO provide plenty of movement in the sound. Besides some fixed Modulation Connections, almost every parameter can be modulated in the Hydrasynth via the Modulation Matrix, which has 32x Slots. A 670mm long Ribbon Controller can not only be used to modulate other parameters, but also offers a completely different method of note input in Theremin Mode.

Filter

With 2x different Filters (which can be used in Parallel or Serial mode) detailed sound shaping is simple on the Hydrasynth. The first Filter covers 11x different Models (including 12/24dB Low-Pass, High-Pass and Vocal). The second Filter is a state variable, and works with a slope of 12 dB and can be crossfaded continuously from Low-Pass via Band-Pass to High-Pass (similar to the SEM Filter).

Effects

As the last link in the signal chain there are 4x Effect Blocks to give the sound the final touch. The first and last Effect Blocks each contain the same selection of Chorus, Flanger, Rotary, Phaser, Lo-Fi, Tremolo, EQ, and Compressor (with Sidechain). In between, Delay and Reverb (five and six variations respectively) can be activated.