Oh yes the Lumatone layout, not for me either. I don’t mind the HS pad colours though I don’t pay much attention to them. For the purposes of storing which pads I’ve been playing in the preset name I’ve mentally labelled them 1-8, I-P and Q-X
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Most demos I’ve seen on YT of this synth seem to be trying to get “bread and butter” sounds out it, which IMO that doesn’t seem like the point of this machine. I want metallic, alien, spectral sounds - can it do that?
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It doesn’t really do pure FM clangour and mayhem. It doesn’t do proper analog filter conemelt. The RingMod is not the proper alien ring mod of a moogerfooger.
Apart from that it’s fine. The last thing I posted went down like a lead balloon, bread and butter sounds are not my strong point, even if I might secretly wish them to be. At about 1.48 and 3.14 the timbral change is scanning through the wavetables:
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Thank you. Also excited to see separate Rx and Tx channels 
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Not true.
Go to page #2 of System Setup, and press button #8, where you can receive ( and send ) Scala files.
The thing about this is you have 32 microtonal scales, so you need to pick which 32 you have, but you can have any 32 you want.
This is a Hydrasynth after all.
you callin‘ me a liar, but i just suck at english grammar 
i‘ve edited my post.
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Ah-ha. My error then.
Your grammar is very good, and i now see i should have picked up on the contradiction. This might also be a regional English thing.
There had also been a different confusion upthread on the way microtonal scales work on the HS.
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Not only can it do that, you’ll usually need to be conservative in sound design to make it not do that because usually wild sounds are a random button press away.
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I was trying to picture a game that i could play with my HS. I don’t think i’ve ever found an Easter egg, in the HS.
For sure, and the random option features can help that too. There’s so many ways to twist a normal sound into something odd.
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Unless they’ve changed it in v2, you can’t directly export Scala files into a Hydrasynth. You have to convert the .scl file into a .mts, which I then dumped into the HS out of Reaper. There used to be a microtonal web page that would do the conversion but it died last year and now it seems like you have to use a Python app, which is something about which I know nothing.
But unless you need to have a specific JI or similar tuning, you can use the Osc keyboard tracking to get you in the ballpark, so just as is at 50% you’re getting 24-ET quartertones and at 200% 6-ET.
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The interface is MIDI sysex.
I’m trying to send MIDI from Ableton through the Hydrasynth an into another synth. I thought that would be possible by simply sending the MIDI via USB to the HS and then run a default MIDI cable from the HS’ MIDI THRU into the second synth.
Well, it doesn’t work. What am I missing here?
That is common behaviour on most synths. Thru is hardwired to the din input. Usb is not included in that mix.
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Ah shit, it doesn’t translate? Too bad. Thanks for the answer 
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Playing around with the Taiga, I wish Hydra would’ve just basic waveforms and a wavefolder. Astonishingly I hear all the Hydra’s Wavetables when I step through the waveforms and sweep the wavefolder, it’s just much more usable than editing that table of tables.
Of course, Taiga and Hydra are not competitiors. But a Wavefolder in the Hydra would be niiiiccceee.
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