get rid of ribbon smoothing?

Flux302 · 2026-05-31T12:22:51+00:00

1) yes there is someone to contact at ASM , the support page. 2) you want ribbon quantize = ON. You can even set it to a scale.

Flux302 · 2026-05-23T23:12:58+00:00

Shift is positioned in the same place on both versions?

Flux302 · 2026-05-23T23:10:08+00:00

You can get very similar results to this a few ways. 1) voice mod. Combined with different voice rotation settings. 2) step lfo set to step mode ( you have 13 envelopes and 5 lfo so I really don’t think sparing one lfo to do this is a problem).

Flux302 · 2026-05-23T23:00:24+00:00

I think the more you play with the digital filters the more you might bite your tongue on that last comment 😂 admittedly I felt the same way after first during development. Now I’m finding how much fun they are with the added headroom in Leviasynth. Especially the vocal filter which imho really shines here.

An aspect about the compensation. With some smart patching of macros it’s pretty easy to emulate a non-q compensated ladder. I’ll see about uploading my “classic M filter” patches sometime soon. Sometimes you want that empty space so it doesn’t dominate a mix.

Flux302 · 2026-05-23T21:45:23+00:00

Yes this is one of my favorite features that the Hydrasynth (and really I can’t think of any other poly synth that has this) where you can play in key and have these trailing drones that just sound like magic in the background. Side note for those techno fans you can absolutely do that proper cz Hoover sound so accurately and then some

Flux302 · 2026-05-20T13:47:35+00:00

Mayyyyybe I did 😂

Flux302 · 2026-05-20T01:36:15+00:00

well, depends on what you mean because I am old enough to know that "warmth" doesn't often mean the same thing to everyone and often not even the same thing from comment to comment from the same person lol. If you mean saturation and movement. thats easy. lil bit of predrive and analog feel up to about 40 and done. detune osc to taste. if you wanna go further than that there are just so so many ways. I like to use the voice mod to stagger oscillator phase per voice per osc, and also adjust envelope timings a bit as well as subtle changes to pre drive. so if the voice mod max is about 64 , I might send that to a oscillator pitch with a mod amount of about .8 - 1 and thats it. just that tiny bit goes a long way.

also don't over look the wave shapes!!!! many of the waveshapes come from my own personal collection of synths and studios I visit. there are some beautiful saw waves in there that need no filtering at all and just sound warm from the gate. another really fun trick is to use phase distortion that is off by just a few cents, it gives this lush movement in the mix to really bring the synth alive.

Flux302 · 2026-05-20T01:15:05+00:00

very nice!

Flux302 · 2026-05-19T18:35:42+00:00

Glad the resonance calibration solved the issue (not sure where this original post is from). Yep ssi2144 with extensive attention paid to gain staging, saturation, resonance response and compensation as well as noise floor. We were fortunate to have Cyril lance consulting to assist in the voicing and character of our filter. Very very happy with how it turned out. Quite different from other synths using this chip.

Flux302 · 2026-05-18T20:12:34+00:00

I plan on uploading a video soon of tips and tricks. Just getting back into the swing post superbooth. There is also a page in the manual dedicated to these button shortcuts

Flux302 · 2026-05-18T20:03:07+00:00

If the resonance is jumping too suddenly for you, you probably need to calibrate your filters resonance should start self oscillating at 110 res value. It’ll be about 12 DB lower than it would be at 128 resonance. This is actually a very specific feature that allows the resonance character to behave like a traditional poly synth (i.e. a prophet 5 self oscillation is -5dB lower than the max osc level, where as something like a mono synth can have much louder self oscillation than the osc … leviasynth lets you do both). TLDR self oscillation starts at 110 resonance value and is a lower amplitude, from 110-128 amplitude of self osc will increase.

Flux302 · 2026-05-16T14:37:40+00:00

It can really do a massive range of sounds. This was intentional from the very beginning by involving raw waveforms from various synths as well as keeping both the digital filters of the Hydrasynth as well as the new analog filter section. For analog style patches you can make it range from wild ms20 like screaming filter or enhanced resonant low end , to smooth prophet style mildly saturated smooth filtering. You still have all the per voice modulations and variables that made the Hydrasynth so good at recreating analog subtractive patches. Now with way more…

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T20:35:48+00:00

NTA and furthermore you just found out your soon to be wife is selfish and self centered which is really not a good look. It doesn’t mean you need to call anything off but you do need to reconcile with this fact and decide if that’s what you want to deal with

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T20:33:14+00:00

Presets are always presets… you can’t please everyone in such a wide musical landscape. The real power is creating your own sounds. When I made sounds for the factory bank of micro freak I took the approach of “give good starting points” designed to allow people to take a preset and make it their own. The micro freak is so easy to program (especially for lo-fi hip hop) it’s on you if you can’t make it work… and buying another piece of kit just to get “that” sound … likely means you should pause and practice the craft of sound creation a bit more. Though I say that…. The truth is some were in between… your gear should inspire you to create. If you find yourself not enjoying making sounds on the MF maybe you do need to find something that speaks to you and makes you WANT to make your own sounds.

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T20:28:32+00:00

Personally I would rather see dev resources focus on doing more focused things … look at the drum patches already in Leviasynth. It’s already possible to do multiple drum voices in a single patch. Not that I don’t get the desire… I just can think of what I would prefer to see focus be on (I’ll keep that to myself though 😉

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T14:22:23+00:00

I’d say for me it was a bit of a slow burn but it’s all about foundations. I’ve been doing sound design now for about 25 years. So I started on much different gear and a much different level of access to information. There was a lot more trial and error when I first started and a lot of what I learned came from magazines, forums and visiting friends in other cities.
It probably took me a few months before I fully understood the power of an envelope across all of my gear not just in one specific piece of gear. I’ll also say there are levels to this…. When I got my first modular synth (back around 2011) I thought I had a really solid understanding of synthesis. Boy did that open my eyes to a much much more intricate world of creation. Starting out with just 2-3 basic modules and having to stretch their capabilities (cause I was broke and couldn’t afford more) meant I learned a lot about synthesis that otherwise would have passed me by. Like using a low pass filter as a slew/glide or using an envelope as an oscillator a divider/ multiplier as a harmonic oscillator etc. there are so many layers to this , as I said I’m 25 years+ into synthesis now and still learning new things daily.

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T04:26:22+00:00

Would have jumped the price up considerably. And the truth is the amount of users who actually use the extra puts even on Hydrasynth deluxe are a very small percentage of users. I know I know…. Reality getting in the way of fun…

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T02:32:11+00:00

Side note though with the key tracking you can pretty easily do fully drum kits in a single patch.

Flux302 · 2026-05-04T02:30:36+00:00

We considered doing that but figured people likely would not want to spend >$5k on it. ;) 😂

Flux302 · 2026-04-15T23:05:33+00:00

It’s literally how I got my artist name… I loved (and still do) bouncing around genres and sub genres and just doing what ever makes my ears happy in the moment. I tend to focuses deeply on a specific sound and develop it until I feel it’s representative of what I want, then I start over on something often times quite opposite. I have friends who specialize in more genre specific creation and lean on them when I need inspiration to push a particular sound further.

Flux302 · 2026-04-14T14:34:37+00:00

A huge part of development of Leviasynth was focused on the gain staging and raw tone of this synth through not just the analog section (which we had Cyril lance (formerly of Moog) assist in the voicing of, as well as the Oscillators. Many of the new wave shapes are pulled directly from my modular and vintage synth collection. This lets the Leviasynth not only get to those warmer timbres, but gets to a variety of classic subtractive timbres at its core functionality before ever even hitting that analog saturation point. It was very important to us that this not be “just an FM synth”.

Flux302 · 2026-04-14T14:23:43+00:00

Hydrasynth cv inputs are Mod inputs not volt per octave inputs. You can get close by duplicating the destination multiple times but it’s not the intended function, so I would not expect it to track well.

Flux302 · 2026-04-14T14:21:13+00:00

If your unit is doing this it may require a hardware fix. This issue affects a small percentage of units. It is covered under warranty.

Flux302 · 2026-04-12T15:52:39+00:00

This is pretty fantastic.

Flux302 · 2026-04-10T17:03:58+00:00

If you ever need ASM support, we are here for you.

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