Hydrasynth Explorer bugs

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Just recently purchased a new Hydra Explorer. I love the synth, but I'm encountering some random bugs. In three days, I had a bug when one of the LFO's locked the lowest possible rate to higher than normal. Basically couldn't turn it lower than 1/16. It happened once, so far.

Bug 2 happened a couple of times when using mod routing shortcuts. Let's say I want LFO3 to modulate the pitch of the OSC2. Hold LFO3 and press OSC2 button. The mod matrix shows up on display, and you would normally adjust the depth parameter and that's it. In my case, the destination would "magically" change by itself to Arp set of settings. I literally saw it switching before my eyes.
Bug 3 happened only once. I was just previewing the sound I made and all of a sudden an 2 sec white noise bursted in out of nowhere.
Before I decide to send it back to the store, I would like to gather some info from Hydra users because I don't know whether I got a defective unit or is it a general problem affecting random owners that needs to be fixed by devs.

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Never had any of those issues. Sounds like a defective unit to me.
Have you uploaded the latest firmware from here
https://www.ashunsoundmachines.com/downloads
?

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The unit came with the latest 2.0 firmware but I reinstalled it again and it seems that problems I mentioned are gone. But other random glitches came along. Like modwheel deciding to not be zero when it supposed to be. Filter Cutoff No.2 changing position and the most intrusive glitch is LFO sometimes loosing it. Slow or high rate, it sporadically "gives up" trying to keep up with tempo. But it's not happening often. It was only once or twice and it seems to be that the longer I use the synth the less it is happening. Very strange. Bizarre, actually.

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