Mastering The Macros; Home Page; Make A Macro; Assign A Destination - Ashun Sound Machines HYDRASYNTH Owner's Manual

Macros are powerful, expressive tools for song creation and live performance. Every factory
patch has up to 8 Macros that maximize their creative potential. Each Macro is a combination of
one of the Control knob / button pairs and a list of destinations, sort of like a private Mod Matrix
grouped around the Right display. In fact, Macros can even control the Mod Matrix mod routes.
You can create and modify Macros to match your music and your style.

Home Page

If you haven't tried out the Macro controls yet, press the [HOME] button to jump to the Home
page. That's where the action is: the Control knobs and buttons are supercharged on this page,
sort of like the pedals on steroids. Each Control knob is paired with a Control button to affect up
to 8 parameters at once: The knobs sweep parameter values and the buttons (toggle, trigger,
or reset them; see Master: Page 2
Macro can reduce values, increase them, or do both at the same time.
It's easy to see which Macros are active on
the Home page: If a Macro field displays a
zero or some other number, it has at least one
parameter assigned. If the Macro field has a
dash, not a number, then it is empty.

Make a Macro

Find a fun patch, press [MACRO ASSIGN], and let's explore how they work. At this point all eight
Macros say "Macro Edit... " whether they're empty or not. From here you can inspect or modify
an existing Macro by pressing its Control button to enter the Macro Edit page. After that, here's
what you'll see in the Right display:
• Destinations 1-3 are listed across the top
row. Use the Page arrows to select Des 4-6
and Des 7-8.
• The middle line of the page shows the
Button Value.
• The bottom line of the display shows the
modulation Depth.

Assign a Destination

For the purposes of this exercise, let's start
with an empty Macro. We'll be working with
Macro 1.
Additional information for some steps is
included below in italics.
1. If you're not already there, press [MACRO
ASSIGN].
2. Hold [INIT] and press Control button 1 to
initialize Macro 1.
3. Release [INIT] and press Control button 1
again to enter the Macro Assign page.
(p. 85)). Modulation levels can be positive or negative, so a
Here's a handy tip when using Macros on
the Home page: If you hold [INIT] and turn a
Control knob, the Macro will jump to 0.0 from
its current value. This prevents the generation
of intermediate values.
4. Press Control button 2 to activate the
5. For this example, press [OSC 1] to select
6. Turn Control knob 6 to set an amount of
7. Press Control button 6 to reach the
8. Use Control knob 2 and [SHIFT] to set a
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Mastering the Macros

Assign function.
Many orange-lettered Access buttons are
lit now; these are potential destinations.
it. Instantly the first column is populated
with Osc 1, Pitch, and zeroes.
120.0. Use [SHIFT] to fine-tune the value.
Button Value field.
The bottom Control button cycles through
all of the fields, and also escapes the value
fields.
The Module buttons cannot change the
page when a highlight cursor is visible.
value of 20.0.
The upper Control knob always edits the
highlighted field.