Hydrasynth Deluxe · Recipes
Sound recipes
Each recipe builds one sound from an initialized patch. Load it in the playground to hear where you’re going, then follow the hardware steps with the Owner’s Manual open at the cited pages.
- Bell · 8 min · p. 45–46, 59, 92
FM glass bell
A clear, ringing bell from one oscillator, using the FM-Lin Mutant at a non-whole-number Ratio.
- Lead · 8 min · p. 46–47, 59, 77, 92
Sync sweep lead
The tearing, vocal sync lead: OSC Sync in a Mutant, with an envelope sweeping its Depth on every note.
- Pad · 10 min · p. 43–44, 59, 63, 92, 95
Evolving WaveScan pad
A pad that keeps changing colour by letting a slow LFO scan through a Wavelist.
- Pad · 7 min · p. 12, 92–94
Poly aftertouch swell
Make each note of a chord respond to its own finger pressure: PolyAftT to cutoff and WaveScan.
- Arp · 6 min · p. 14–15, 59, 84–87
Ratcheting arp pluck
A short pluck through the arpeggiator with Ratchet and Chance, so the pattern varies itself.
- Bass · 7 min · p. 43, 46, 53–55, 59, 75
WavStack super-bass
Five detuned copies from one oscillator, an octave down, driven into a plucky ladder filter.
- Texture · 7 min · p. 48–49, 63, 92
Harmonic partial sweep
The Harmonic Mutant isolates one partial at a time; an LFO walks Depth so the tone climbs the overtone series.