The ASM HYDRASYNTH EXPLORER is the ultimate in power and portability, offering the powerful Hydrasynth sound engine together with battery powered operation and an ASM PolyTouch polyphonic aftertouch mid-sized keybed. The greatest attention has been put to its user interface, making sound creation a breeze. This is the ultimate companion for a portable setup, where a smaller footprint is needed.

Utilizing an advanced wavetable synthesis engine, 3 Oscillators, dual Wave Mutators and 2 filters that can be configured in series or parallel, the tone generating capabilities are unmatched.

As for the performance capabilities, The HYDRASYNTH EXPLORER has ASM's proprietary 37-note mid-sized Polytouch keybed that offers polyphonic aftertouch over each note, giving you the type of expressive control found only in certain vintage synths.

Features:

- 8-voice polyphonic digital wave morphing synthesizer

- POLYTOUCH Polyphonic Aftertouch, Note on/off velocity keyboard with 37 mid-sized keys

- Battery powered operation using 8xAA batteries (not included)

- MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) compatible

- Microtuning support via MIDI Tuning Standard files

- 3 Oscillators per voice with 4 Mutators total

- 1 Multimode filter and 1 variable LP-BP/Notch-HP filter per voice

- 640 program locations with Category search

- CV/Gate interconnectivity

Specs:

- Type: Polyphonic Wave Morphing Synthesizer

- Sound Engine Type(s): Wavescan

- Analog/Digital: Digital

- Number of Keys: 37 mid-sized keys

- Type of Keys: ASM POLYTOUCH Polyphonic Aftertouch Keyboard, On/Off Velocity-sensitive, Semi-weighted

- Other Controllers: Pitch Bend, Mod Wheel

- Polyphony: 8 voices

- Number of Presets: 640

- Oscillators: 3 x Wavescan oscillators (219 Waveforms), 4 x Mutator wave shapers (8 Types), Noise (7 Types)

- Mutators: 8 Types (FM-Lin, WaveStack, PW-Orig, PW-Squeeze, PW-ASM, Harmonic Sweep, Hard Sync, PhazDiff)

- Noise: 7 Types (White, Pink, Brown, Red, Blue, Violet, Grey)

- LFO: 5 per Voice (Sine, Triangle, Saw Up, Saw Down, Square, Pulse 27%, Pulse 13%, S&H, Noise, Random, Step), Tempo syncable, Semitone Lock

- Envelopes: 5 per voice, Tempo syncable, Variable trigger sources

- Filter Types: 1 Multimode Filter (16 types) and 1 Variable LP-BP/Notch-HP filter, series or parallel routing

- Filters: Filter 1 (LP Ldr12, LP Ldr24, LP Fat12, LP Fat24, LP Gate, LP MS20, HP MS20, LP 3-Ler, BP 3-Ler, HP 3-Ler, LP Stn12, BP Stn12, HP Stn12, LP 1 Pole, LP 8 Pole, Vowel), Filter 2 (LP-BP-HP, LP-Notch-HP)

- Effects: 9 Insert Effects, 5 Delays, 4 Reverbs.

- Effects Types: Chorus, Flanger, Rotary, Phaser, Lo-Fi, Tremolo, EQ, Compressor, Distortion, Delay, Reverb

- Arpeggiator: 8 types (Up, Down, Up&Down, Up/Down, Order, Random, Chord, Phrase)

- Other: Mod Matrix (32 slots), Macro Controllers (8), Favorites (32), Randomizer (Patch and Module), MPE Compatibility, Warm Mode, Microtuning

- Audio Outputs: 2 x 1/4" Balanced (L/Mono, R)

- Headphones: 1 x 1/4"

- USB: 1 x Type B

- MIDI I/O: In/Out

- Pedal Inputs: 1 x 1/4" (sustain)

- Other Outputs: 5 x 1/8" Outputs (CV, Gate, Mod1, Mod2, Clock)

- Power Supply: 12V DC switchable power supply

- Height: 2.28" / 5.8cm

- Width: 21.81" / 55.4cm

- Depth: 9.72" / 24.7cm

- Weight: 7.63lbs / 3.46kg