Analoguesque Sound Designs has released a free collection of patches for the ASM Hydrasynth, Analoguesque Esoteric II.
Here’s what they have to say about the free sound library:
“This bank of 128 patches provides musicians with atmospheric punch for their compositions.
There are, of course, several basses and leads, but the bulk of the collection concentrates on atmospheric pads designed to fill, and sometimes, create spaces in a composition. There are plenty of dark and dirty pads, noisy atmospheric “factory” pads, light wispy sounds and FX, to fill out the mix in many interesting ways.
As is customary for Analoguesque Sound Designs, these are all downloadable free of charge.”
Availability:
Analoguesque Esoteric II bank is available now, along 4 additional banks of free patches.
Incredible stuff, thank you very much!
Patches, we Don’t… ah, never mind.
i don’t think i’ve actually even heard a hydrasynth yet.
This one is the dirtiest sounding yet. You should try to organize the patches into categories somehow, like putting all the basses together, and all the leads together etc.
i dont understand why the factory patches are so naff… this thing has FM oscillators that can FM themselves with themselves… its crazy
and the factory patches is like a synth bass and a whistle lead or something
Question: The Hydrasynth is one the most versatile synths I know of (mine is a Hydra DLX). It almost begs for you to sit down and make patches and new sounds. In addition it’s fairly easy to tweak. But – I wonder.. Does the market for patches, free soundsets etc.. make the user lazy? Furthermore – does it somehow stand in the way of people actually learning the instrument?
I guess free patches can make users lazy, but it depends on the user. For me, patches from other people spark new ideas and help me learn things about a synth – often things that I just never considered.
eivind; I like to buy a few sets for any synth I use. If you take the time to polish the standout sounds, you can learn a lot about an instrument’s powers. I don’t see it as lazy. Instead, it gives me a juicier working library and teaches me how to be a better programmer.
This 100%. You can learn a ton from these sounds. There is no (IMHO) genius use of modulation sources and destinations, or crazy in-depth options on the Hydrasynth, just a sonic wall that really shows what this synth can do. Twiddling the macro knobs made me feel like a kid with some of these patches because they sometimes change the sound completely. They could stand to be used more though, but there are some amazing changes in the timbre when they are. The programming is not complex so you can definitely learn some good sound design techniques just by checking out the patches. The percussion sounds are fantastic to mess with. It’s like having a dedicated analog drum machine because they really alter the timbre. The hats and toms are great fun.