I think they’ve raised the bar with this, with the interface and some of the features. Sounds good, not 100% convinced on that but wouldn’t be until I played one myself.
Considering replacing my Blofeld Keyboard with one of these - I love the Blofeld sound engine but the interface is a bit of a chore rather than a pleasure.
Just watched the Sonic state review. Wow, impressive!
Best Synth out there in ‘The land of never ending new stuff’ ? Yes I think so.
Am I going to buy one? nope. Do I even want one? nope.
OK i watched the Loopop review again and he actually explained the oscillator section quite well at 13:40.
EDIT: Wow, the Mutant section is huge! It even includes explicit Wavefolding where you can EDIT 8 segments of a osc waveform! And that is only one osc and one Mutant… that Synth is a Sound Designers wet dream.
I am GASing now!
Oh dear. It sounds sick.
me after watching the PERFECT CIRCUIT demo:
specs are crazy good , not sure if I like the sounds I heard so far.
I mean I like it, but I‘m not blown away by any demo
i’ve got the same feeling though, but i think that it really needs more “radical” tweaking and definitely some enhancement on the outputs, something like a colorizing eq or an AH.
I don’t think the fundamental sound of the filters is anything special, in fact they seem pretty average / functional. I think it’s more all the other weird stuff it can do. In that respect it reminds me of the Monomachine.
Having said that, the Monomachine can do some surprisingly nice VA monosynth type bass. Would like to have a play with the Hydra and see how the different filters sound in that context. It’s obviously not its intended area of expertise, but eg if one was considering this vs a Peak, the Peak is very good at that stuff.
Its a Feature Monster for Sure. No iam not buying it. But very interesting to watch.
Fun to watch the performer ‘bar chording’ the pads (the pads are set to octave mode) and then playing the polyphonic aftertouch across them. Starts at 6:08. He goes up and down the “neck”. Just pick a good scale and key. Not sure that ASM designed it this way, or it’s just the creativity of the performer.
Oh that Perfect Circuit demo – after I told myself not to watch any more demos of this synth. I like that they used the desktop version. That would be the one I’d go for. It really seems like the pads are very expressive and playable. Watching as this develops (even though I said I shouldn’t watch… haha).
I thought some the day these were announced to decide between the desktop and the keyboard on which to order. The price of the desktop is nearly 40% below the keyboard version, more of a difference than i would have expected. You don’t give up that much. The synth inside is exactly the same. You do give up the keys and ribbon controller, and some duplicate controls on the filter and arp, that you get at from the eight master controls, plus a few other minor things. The desktop’s controls are a little smaller, which is mostly a plus. If you’re not a big keyboard player it seems to me the choice between them is pretty easy, unless you have some other reasons. The pads still have polyphonic-aftertouch so you still have that control.
I went with the keyboard, but as i ordered in the back of my mind was the thought that the two are made to work together, so it doesn’t have to be an either/or, if this is as good as it all seems on the surface. (We’ll see!?) Both means it’s a 16 voice bi-timbral synth. But i’ve got to say it’s the most multi-timbral sounding mono-timbral synth i’ve ever heard.
I’m still thinking about tucking a battery in the recess in the back of the desktop for a portable.
feature set and layout / UI choices all absolutely spot on, but like others I’m yet to be in any way moved by the sound of it in any demos I’ve watched (and there have been many). It just sounds ok to me.
I have already Feature rich synths… A4 and Peak …No need for Hydrasynth.
No.
No.
But did you know hydrasynth is a really Feature rich synth?!
Nothing like it in a synth world. Everybody needs one 
Interestingly, this cool new synth is making me appreciate all the powerful VST synths, I already have, again.
I think it might sound slightly less lush than a Blofeld for some types of sounds (I’m just thinking aloud), but the much more tweakable interface might outweigh that for me.
Here’s a new state of the art wave table synth and you want to add colorization and EQ? 
There’s an EQ in there and great effects too so maybe it’s just not a synth for you?
Sure, the impact of a given synth is very subjective but still I think maybe you guys are expecting a bit too much here.
I think this is much more a question of tweaking sounds as you say. I would probably not use any of those demo sounds but I can hear the potential for creating some very interesting and great sounding patches just from hearing the timbres and textures in the demos and a synth like this is meant for ones own exploration and sound design I think.