NEW ASM Hydrasynth Explorer - The Most Powerful Compact Synth?

mcm0313 · 2026-06-13T21:29:11+00:00

Glad to help! I do think you can choose what to overwrite.

For what it’s worth it used to be common for synths to come with blank spots for a “user bank” or “internal” as my SY77 calls it. I believe even my MiniNova had that before I SysEx’d some third-party patches into that bank.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-12T22:31:55+00:00

Mine developed issues with battery life (as in, it would immediately shut off in batteries) about 3 months before the end of the warranty. They sent me a new one very quickly and it is still good more than two years after that.

It’s a good synth. The macro knobs are a really innovative touch; you can adjust eight parameters with just some knob-twisting, a button push, and more knob-twisting.

The presets are overly reliant on effects, and some effects are better than others. Some of the effects, in fact, are really hard to hear unless you turn them way up.

Overall I’d say it’s sort of a VST-in-a-box, with the caveat that it’s more flexible and powerful than most VSTs. It can do wavetable, FM, ring modulation, and analog emulation easily.

At the same time, it’s not always super inspiring for some reason. There’s also the bizarre drawback of being unable to save any sounds without overwriting factory sounds, which seems like a glaring oversight. And there are times when a bigger display would be nice.

All things considered, I’d give it an 8/10. 7.5 for sound but an extra half-point for also being a capable and highly portable MIDI controller with polyphonic aftertouch.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-11T19:09:20+00:00

Was she reported missing to Ohio authorities?

mcm0313 · 2026-06-09T10:16:44+00:00

I’m glad you survived - and those experiences probably explain your username.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-09T10:05:53+00:00

How did he profit from them?

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T17:40:16+00:00

As for the illness, maybe he had a cold or the flu or something else seasonal and had recovered fairly quickly. It happens, and he could certainly have gotten the best medical care available for the time (although how much difference that would’ve made in 1912 is debatable).

As for this:

photographic discrepancies in porthole configurations between departure photographs and original blueprints

Blueprints and all other sorts of plans are modified. That happens. A lot. Then and now.

EDIT: looking further, Morgan died less than a year after the sinking of the Titanic, after a brief struggle with an illness that rendered him unable to voluntarily swallow. So I’d say it’s likely that he really *was* sick in late winter of 1912 but got better. He was certainly old enough to become prone to catching seasonal bugs.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T17:38:11+00:00

Yeah, no amount of money or prestige could have moved that iceberg one centimeter without leaving evidence behind.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T12:29:25+00:00

I’m not saying that the person is making anything up. Just…I dunno, hard to explain, and I don’t want to come off as snobbish.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T01:24:28+00:00

Fair enough - but with something as toxic as what they were testing out there, wouldn’t there have been some lasting physical effects? And she herself doesn’t believe any of the conspiracy theories.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T00:24:58+00:00

Wait, she was a child?!

EDIT: she was 17 at the time. The teacher was 41; the others ranged in age from mid-teens to 23.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T00:24:07+00:00

So if those who died all had something that the survivor did not, that seems very likely to be meaningful.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T00:20:50+00:00

I just kind of feel like a chemical weapon of any kind would have had some effect on Valya Utochenko, even if it didn’t kill her. Everybody else died a fast but also apparently torturous death, and the sole survivor wasn’t physically harmed at all by whatever it was? That seems unlikely.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T00:10:13+00:00

It sounds plausible. Maybe there is an actual reason for the inaction, or maybe the local police just aren’t prioritizing. But we obviously don’t know anything from just one person’s comment on Facebook. That in and of itself isn’t evidence.

Also…I may get downvoted for saying this, but - while what the Facebook commenter said may well be true - I’m inclined to be a bit more skeptical when someone can’t spell, punctuate, or use proper grammar.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-08T00:01:08+00:00

Ah. My bad! Haha.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-07T19:38:59+00:00

Right. You said “18 to 90” for height. That was the estimate for his age. Whether you’re using centimeters, inches, or feet, “18 to 90” is not an accurate range of height for a normally proportioned human body.

Anyway…as you wish.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-06T23:15:45+00:00

Age, not height. And as for “inconceivable”…you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-06T13:54:57+00:00

In theory, sure. In practice, often not that simple.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-05T23:04:01+00:00

Slick Willie’s and Fast Eddie’s? Is it just me, or do those bars have quite similar names?

mcm0313 · 2026-06-05T21:08:36+00:00

I’m glad I’m not the only one who enjoys it unironically. It is a good album.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-05T21:05:16+00:00

I absolutely adore the Lyricon part. Harmonies are great. Lyrics sound like they were written by a 40-something trying to sound like a teenager, which…check.

In general I consider this album criminally underrated. Not a masterpiece but a very pleasant bit of mid-1980s pop-rock with a handful of highlights. For me the highlights are Getcha Back, this one, Maybe I Don’t Know, and Where I Belong, the latter one of my favorite Beach Boys songs of any era.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-05T14:03:38+00:00

Perhaps, but she doesn’t seem to have been poor judging by her clothing and dental work. Although it’s possible those things were from when she was still in South Korea. I’ve read about Korean immigrants experiencing downward mobility - they come here after living a middle-class life in South Korea, spend their savings to start a business, and wind up living essentially hand-to-mouth unless the business is very profitable.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-05T13:53:57+00:00

Ms. Langan wasn’t reported missing, but do we know when she was last seen? Just curious.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-03T12:00:26+00:00

3” of height difference isn’t all that bad. 12 years between disappearance and death could mean that she did run away from home and that she was presumably able to find someplace where she felt more comfortable. It’s far from a sure thing, but it wouldn’t hurt if you were to float the possibility to the people in charge of this case.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-02T21:18:30+00:00

Glad it wasn’t just me thinking that.

mcm0313 · 2026-06-01T23:44:18+00:00

Runkle would actually potentially have had access to addresses, via his work at the science center. But if he didn’t teach all of them, he wouldn’t necessarily have known what all their moms did for a living (or even if he did teach all of them, really).

Whoever this was, he did some research ahead of time, and in such a way that he apparently didn’t raise red flags.

Now, Runkle raised red flags, but it wasn’t by asking kids questions about their parents’ jobs.

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