Last night I was playing the A4 with a keyboard via midi, and wow it’s quite a different experience. I’m no great key-pusher, but just a simple filtered single-saw sound feels really nice to play polyphonically.
The keyboard I was using is a Hydrasynth Deluxe, so next I tried to recreate the A4 sound there. I’ll wasn’t able to get very close even though there were very few modifications on top of the saw oscillator. I did enable warm mode, analog FL, and the random phase setting on the hydra.
I bought the hydra thinking it would be a solid synth and useful as a poly AT controller, but now I’m thinking of selling it and saving for a trigon or some other analog poly.
In the meantime, going to make sure I keep a keyboard connected to the A4 because wow.