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To: d93cb@... , analogue@... ,
From: WBroadway@... ,
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Subject: Re: Oberheim Matrix 1000
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 14:34:50 -0400

> Now i ask: Is there nothing you can change on this baby even is you're
> using an editor, there must be some parameters like vibrato or LFO you
> can modify

The Matrix 1000 is fully programmable, but not from the front panel. It is
essentially a Matrix 6r without the front panel controls, and some extra
spaces for presets and RAM. Any Matrix 6 editor will program it. There are
editor modules for it in X-or/Unisyn, Galaxy, and MIDI Quest. Probably in
SoundDiver, too. MIDI Quest and Galaxy also offer their editors in individual
form, if you don't have (or expect to get) enough synths to warrant a
universal editor.

As far as programming the beast goes, this is one of the deepest synths out
there. You could spend years with this critter and not come anywhere near
finding all the sounds it will make. Its Matrix modulation scheme is
surpassed only by the Xpander/Matrix 12. Essentially, anything can be
modulated by anything else, which can be modulated by something else, while
something else is modulating what was first being modulated, at the same time
as. . . Well, you get the picture.

BTW, most of the presets suck. This accounts for why they go so cheap. You
have to dig in to make it sing

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