The HYDRASYNTH Desktop / Rack has the same great sound engine as the HYDRASYNTH Keyboard. The sound engine is a sound designers dream synth as well as a performing musicians ideal. The sound engine is designed for maximum flexibility. At the same time, the user interface is designed in a way that allows you to edit the patch quickly with a minimal amount of paging and many workflow shortcuts.


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 Desktop / Rack has 24 polyphonic pressure touchpads so that you can play the unit without needing to connect a keyboard or other controller. Using multiple pad layout modes as well as quick to access scale modes, the Hydrasynth Desktop / Rack is easy to make music on.


The Hydrasynth Desktop / Rack comes with rack ears so that you can mount it in a standard 19" rack.

• Poly Pressure Touchpads
• 3 oscillators with a selection of 219 single cycle waveforms
• Oscillators 1 & 2 are routed into MUTATORS
• Mutators allow you to modulate, bend and sculpt the sound in new (and old) ways
• Oscillators are fed into a mixer along with the Noise generator and Ring Modulator
• 2 filters that can be configured in series or parallel
• 1st filter has 11 different filter models
• 2nd filter is a 12db per octave with continuous sweep from Low pass to bandpass to high pass
• 5 Low-Frequency Oscillators
• 5 DAHDSR Envelopes
• Mod Matrix w/ 32 user-definable modulation routings
• Almost everything in the synth engine can be a modulation destination
• Arpeggiator w/ a phrase arpeggio built-in
• MIDI IN/OUT/THRU
• CV: Supports the standard voltages for Eurorack as well as some of the Japanese Volts>HZ products
• MOD in and outs allow for modulation from DC to full audio ranges, expanding your modulation capabilities
• 8 assignable encoders and buttons
• 5 banks of 128 patches w/ 256 factory patches
• Full FX suite - reverbs, chorus, delay, flanger, EQ, compressor and many more