requested the ability to customize colors on the pads, which DO have multi color LEDs in them…
*as showcased upon powering on.
@phaelam if you’re feeling adventurous, I would think you could open it up and put a piece of colored plastic behind the button faces. I dimmed my Digitakt buttons this way, and it seems like it would work on the HS buttons too. Just a thought…
** if your insane you could swap the existing leds and solder in your favorite colors.*
Daniel Fisher must really like the Explorer. Even more than the Deluxe. I mean, this vid is almost an hour - quite a bit longer than his Deluxe vid.
Fisher gives a great show here really playing the HSX. It’s great to see a product demo that is a real performance.
Notice @captain8 that having only four Master Controls is almost no impediment. Fisher has clearly practiced on an HSK, and it’s good to see that the skills transfer over so well. Notice how he plays the Macros, but also how frequently he goes directly to control modules through the access given with the Module Select buttons. ( That’s why you don’t necessarily need to devote a Macro to a single control. )
Another thing occurs to me about the HSX from this upclose performance. It being so small means you can have both hands on the keys, and still reach a finger to twist a knob, or slide on the Modwheel sliders, or quickly press a button, on this minisynth. It’s not always possible on the larger siblings. Plus your stretch on the keys is farther.
Another very simple performance thing he shows, using the patch select knob to cut off the sound quickly. A good use for a feature, sometimes complained about.
He uses the arp and filters together well, while using the octave switch buttons. The range of the keyboard ( the number of keys ) is only a small limitation, with these controls so accessible. He definitely uses the set controls for the filters and arp well.
Notice how his hands roll as he uses the poly-aftertouch. He explores lots of the presets here. Notice also some of the bass patches.
It’s hard to resist. I had thought as an HSK user that i wouldn’t be interested in the HSX, but no. I definitely see how this fits. I would have to learn a new count with multiple presses on module buttons to get to a set of parameters, but that won’t be too difficult. There is a real appeal to having a common engine in all four HSes. And if you have another HS, that allows you to use the HSX for 16 voices using Overflow, if you’d like.
( I want keyboard split on the HSK, to use the HSX for bi-timbrality, without a MIDI filter. )
Plus using the HSX as an MPE controller with all the MPE soft synths will also a huge appeal for a lot of customers.
man I would love to see Dorian Concept demo one!
Reminds me of the APC40 thread on the Ableton forum, years ago. It got hilarious…60 pages of posts. Sadly a lot of the images have disappeared along with the image hosting companies.
https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116396&start=870
Daniel Fisher has a credit at the start of the Hydrasynth manual for sound design. He knows the thing inside out.
the choices we have these days are phenomenal…
Around 19:36 into the Explorer video, Daniel Fisher uses the octave up button.
His right hand solo jumps up an octave. The note he’s holding with his left hand, however doesn’t seem to change octaves. I don’t think the Explorer has keyboard splits so I guess it’s just clever patch programming.
Good to spot that in the video. That’s how it works, you hold what is playing already. It also applies to building arpeggiator sequences and i think with building chords, though i want to confirm that for chords.
Always good to look at the credits page.
While Chen Jiejun is no longer on the ASM About page i notice he is prominent still on the Special Thanks page of the new manuals. I know he had been a strong team member at Medeli too.
There have been just today a number of names added to the ASM About page.
Important to me that the engineering staff be included in receiving credits. The ASM staff based in China are core to the engineering at ASM.
I also notice the list of people for sound design included in the two new manuals has increased. There are fifteen names there now for Explorer, and eighteen for Deluxe ! Sound design is where the rubber meets the road for a synth.
Sorry I didn’t see that it was mentioned 1600 posts earlier in the thread.
I will remove my post if you like. I thought it was relevant.
No man keep it up. Excellent point you made.
I forgot completely that i made that post, and so i got to read myself as somebody i’ve never met.
Good on GovernorSilver to have spotted it.
This thread is long but the HS deserves it.
No need to remove your post. I’m sure newer members to the forum would benefit
I would love it, but it’s too big for someone with no space. Too bad they can’t or won’t (I’m not sure which fits) add a split to the existing. BUT…I’m also not a good key player, so as cool as it would be, it probably wouldn’t benefit me.
The Deluxe is so awesome tho!
This is standard behavior on most (fairly modern) synths, if you’re holding a note but use the octave buttons, the held note doesn’t also change octaves, it continues to sound the original note. Pretty handy when you have limited keys. Some old synths don’t work this way, the 2 octave flipper on the Odyssey actually changes the held note, the Mini-Korg 700 as well, but all my other synths keep the held note in the original octave.
Still haven’t seen published dimensions, so i measured on the HSK, and i’m estimating the Deluxe Shelf will be about 13" wide x 10.5" high.
Plenty of room to put the quadraphonic swirl generator ( my post ) run by the HS Deluxe.
What might you park on the shelf ?
Maybe a cool custom MIDI controller with 12 faders for control of two envelopes at once, and a few lit buttons to select which two envelopes are being edited. I think they’re 6 stage, so that would be siiiiick for this synth.
I suppose you could connect that to various envelopes, but one way would be to be in Multi Mode, and have one envelope on the Upper and one on the Lower.
I think i understand the Explorer, but i still am re-reading the Deluxe manual.
No one has suggested a sequencer for the shelf. Simply sequencing the arp phrases is fun.
A year out of date, but I still thought Tarekith’s review was interesting enough to start watching.
Found it after watching his videos of a small rig Hydrasynth with MC-707 and OB-6 desktop.
