888 – The Number of the Beats
A special edition of the ASM Hydrasynth will see 888 units released worldwide.
11 November 2024
Ashun Sound Machines has announced the ‘Hydrasynth Explorer 888 Units’ will be available as a special edition of Hydrasynth Explorer, dressed up in an eye-catching orange colour scheme synonymous with the music hardware brand , and limited to a production run of 888 units worldwide which will surely appeal to both numerology enthusiasts and synth collectors alike.
The orange colour scheme applied to Hydrasynth Explorer 888 Units has been synonymous with ASM since day one. The Hydrasynth Explorer is effectively a compact-sized Hydrasynth featuring a 37-note mid-sized key-bed with proprietary ASM Polytouch technology to provide responsive velocity and expressive polyphonic aftertouch features that are not found in other smaller-sized keyboards.
Why a run of 888 units worldwide? Answering that apparently simple question yields some interesting information — in keeping with Hydrasynth Explorer 888 Units yielding some interesting sounds — for not only is 888 a strobogrammatic number (meaning that the numerals used are rotationally symmetric so appear the same when read upside down) the number represents triple fortune in
numerology. And who knows? Owners of these production-limited Hydrasynth
Explorer 888 Units may one day be sitting on a small fortune.
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