Okay, so levers instead of wheels -- I thought of them as basically the same
thing. And I now remember it was 61 keys like the Matrix 6 and Matrix 12.

Some of the mapping and cycling features came from the old 4-voice era, as
you could do interesting things with rotating across multiple channels and
sources or set one to always play the high note on one channel, then down
from there. It was great on the systemizer for doing nice brass section
lines where things would track exactly like they should with careful playing
technique.

-----Original Message-----
From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf
Of LarryS
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:38 PM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [oberheim] Re: The Perf/X units are all the same board!
Cyclone, Strummer, Drummer plz read!

>
> Well, the Systemizer was basically an XK without the keyboard.

Possibly, but the Xk has no midi in port.

>
> The XK was a MIDI controller that did some rather nice stuff. It was
> originally designed as the controller for the Oberheim Xpander, but
> MIDI being what it is it worked with all kinds of keyboards.
>

Now see, when I bought mine, the sales guy said it was the "other half" of
the Matrix 6R and had come out at the same time.

Figures.

> It was quite light -- it was very shallow, with a two space
> LED display and
> not much else on the case except some buttons to program it.
> It had, IIRC,
> 76 keys and the obligatory two wheels.

tut,tut!!
No wheels, champ!!
Oberheim didn't transact wheels! Wheels were for dinosaur Moogs and Moog
wannabes. Oberheim had those incredibly cool LEVERS (that I still prefer to
most others).

61 notes, only.

> The systemizer is a combination of the
> wonderful key
> mapping options of the XK along with some additional
> functions. I used one
> live for a while to very good effect. What I wanted was a
> Systemizer with
> two MIDI in ports and 4 MIDI out ports, as my rig got too big
> to just use 16
> MIDI channels.

The Xk *did* have cool mapping features. Way ahead of its time, IIRC. 3
zones

I still use one.

L.