EFFECTS, ARP AND CONNECTIVITY
The Hydrasynth has plenty of features to treat your sounds. First off, there’s plenty of high quality effects in four blocks. The pre and post effects include chorus, flanger, rotary, phaser, lo-fi, tremolo, EQ and compressor, while there are five delay types and reverbs. The quality is impressive and allows sounds to really breathe. As mentioned, effects can also be modulated, which lets them truly become part of the sound design process. ASM also provide a comprehensive arpeggiator onboard with several octave modes, tap tempo (for jamming along live), swing, gate, ratcheting with probability (called ‘chance'), 64 preset phrases, chord mode, plus latch and sustain. The arp’s deepness certainly does make up for the lack of onboard sequencer.
The Hydrasynth has a decent array of connections…