ASM HydraSynth Flora by Limbic Bits Sound Design

Flora is compatible with the full ASM Hydrasynth series, including the Hydrasynth Desktop, Hydrasynth Keyboard, and Hydrasynth Explorer. As long as your firmware is reasonably up to date, the patches should load without issue.

The pack is built around Ambient, Electronica, and Techno, with a particular focus on cinematic atmospheres, deep pads, dub chords, stabs, bass sounds, and complex leads. It’s well suited to dub techno and dark or atmospheric electronic music production.

Flora includes 70 patches programmed from scratch, covering deep pads, cinematic atmospheres, powerful bass sounds, complex leads, and dub chords and stabs. Every patch has been built with heavy use of the Hydrasynth’s modulation matrix.

Morphing macros are a design approach where the macro controls are assigned to multiple modulation destinations simultaneously, allowing a single knob to shift the character of a patch dramatically. All 70 patches feature this approach, resulting in over 3300 modulation routings across the pack, giving you a huge amount of expressive control.

The patches are delivered in ASM’s standard Hydrasynth patch format and can be loaded using the Hydrasynth’s preset import function, either via the ASM Hydrasynth Editor or directly from a USB drive depending on your model and firmware version.

No additional software is required. Flora is a native sound pack for the Hydrasynth hardware synthesiser, so everything runs entirely on the synth itself with no computer needed during performance or production.

Absolutely. The pack has a strong emphasis on cinematic textures, deep pads, and dub chords and stabs, which makes it a particularly strong fit for ambient and dub techno production. The morphing macros also make it easy to evolve sounds slowly over time, which suits those genres well.

V1.0.0 – Initial Release – June 2022

Before transferring sound sets to your synth, please backup your patches first! 

1. Connect your Hydrasynth via USB to your Mac or PC, preferably without a USB hub in between. 
2. Make sure you’re using the latest Hydrasynth firmware. You can find it here: https://www.ashunsoundmachines.com/downloads
3. Switch on the synth and wait until it’s ready 
4. Download and start the Hydrasynth Manager which you can download for free here: https://www.ashunsoundmachines.com/downloads
5. The synth should be recognized automatically by the app. If not, please check your USB connections 
6. In the App, select the computer Icon in one of the two main windows and in the other main window, select the synth icon. 
7. In the main menu, navigate to „Import Bank” 
8. Within the pop-up window, navigate to the location where you have stored the downloaded (und unzipped) sound bank “ASM_Hydrasynth_Flora_Limbic_Bits.hydra“
9. In the computer window you should see the patches.
10. In the synth window, select the bank you want the patches to be transferred to. 
11. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL OVERWRITE ALL EXISTING PATCHES IN YOUR SELECTED BANK BY EXECUTING THE NEXT STEP. 
12. Now, simply drag and drop the patches to your hydrasynth and wait until the pop up message “Transferring…” has disappeared.
13. Done! The patches should appear in the bank of your choice now. 

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