From: Les Lambert <les_lmbrt@...>
Subject: Re: [oberheim] help! Matrix 6 patches tape conversion
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 3 February, 2013, 23:15

 

Yes I still have all that hardware, and a form that I made to log all the sounds with space for comments, so I can have a clue as to what was meant when the sound got named SPLLIDJ or similar. It has been mentioned somewhere that there aren't really that many sounds you can get with a synth like the Matrix, but we all like what we like, just as it is/was and want it regardless of somebody else's opinion. I think the most direct method is the original cassette, but if you don't want to risk losing it, a wav file made on the laptop usually works OK, and you can email those. I think the resulting MIDI sysex will email ok too, I certainly downloaded enough of those for antique synths over the last few years. I haven't tried posting files to this group, but have sent files ok to other groups and seen them appear after the moderator has approved them. In this case, email direct to you would be more appropriate. Of course you would need to check you can restore them to the M1K with your existing hardware. I'm in the UK, but don't think that's a barrier if you can't get local help. --- On Sun, 3/2/13, Jill Saphic <jill_saphic@...> wrote: From: Jill Saphic <jill_saphic@...> Subject: [oberheim] help! Matrix 6 patches tape conversion To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, 3 February, 2013, 21:19   Hello OBs! hope all is well on this american super bowl sunday! I have an obscure question, and am attempting to word it correctly... LOL!!!  alright then, all I have left of my Matrix 6 is a tape of the patches, about half which were my own edits and creations. Like some old RUSH sounds, and the Misty Mountain Hop sound from the led zeppelin etc, as I was using the Matrix 6 in a Hotel "Legends" tribute show for those old fat sounds.    You know how it is when one is programming a new sound. You're in the heat of the moment, & if you're lucky enough to nail it, doing it again is not likely,especially with the editor/librarian of the Matrix 1000. It would be amazing to be able to have my sounds back in a data file I could then load into one of my Matrix 1000s. I would need someone that has a Matrix 6 or 6r, and a tape player, and I don't know anyone here in the states that does. Or I could record the file into a WAV that could be downloaded by someone and then played into a Matrix 6, or 6r. then just saved again through the Midi out into a sequencer or something.    I would be quite happy to PAY someone to do it, supply the tape and floppy, or CD-RW, send it to you, and return postage if it cant be done over the net as an audio file and could download and convert on their own Matrix6 or 6r. and of course, you could keep my sounds for yourself as well! if they would be of any use to you. Does anyone have any ideas or the abiltiy to pull this one out