Great idea,pal. I would like to see implemented a thing that only Matrix6 seems to have ( afaik ) comparing with our little puppy: filter and resonance discrete for each of its 6 voices.... It makes the sound fatter, more organic, as I can hear on my analog-filtered Korg DW8000.Chorus
Francesco.
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Mar 8/7/14,
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Oggetto: [oberheim] Dream on, geek: The Ãœberheim Matrix-1000 Project
A:
oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Data: Martedì 8 luglio 2014, 00:50
This is just a bit of "What if".
Please treat it as a thought experiment.
I love my Matrix-1000. I love 8-bit
machinery. And I love modding things, finding simple hacks
that make things better without taking large chunks of your
lifetime.
Good starting point:
I'll have to take apart my Obie anyway; the battery will
have to be replaced sometime, and there's the v1.13
bugfix firmware update by Fetz.
But why stop there
I think there may be
a couple of things you could do to enhance the M1000's
scope, following these simple
rule: Tradition: Any modification has
to be downward compatible to existing Matrix
sounds.
Simplicity: It has to be
simple.
Aesthetics: It has to fit the
original housing.
Incrementalism: Even if
it's something big, you'd start small and move on
step by step.
Pragmatism: If it already
exists, don't bother building it, buy it.
The reason for the last rule is
time - there's never enough of it, at least with me. So
to keep moving, it is vital to be able to stop at any point
and still have a working unit.
So these are the things I could come
up with that might be done.:A per-voice ring modulator.
Switched on by an unused bit in, say, the Unison
parameter.
Switching the
filter from 4-pole to 2-pole. Making the M1000
respond in real-time. OK, Number 3 seems to
violate my rules of simplicity and incrementalism - this is
a HUGE project, or so it seems. The M1000 is an old beast
with a tired heart - the 6809 processor won't be able to
respond any faster. But maybe you can use 21st century
technology to assist it - use a modern single-chip system,
maybe even something like a Raspberry Pi, and have it run
the original firmware, based on the technology behind the
MAME game machine emulator. Then go ahead and replace the
time-consuming modulation calculation routines by native
code. Tweak, repeat.
The result wouldn't be a
different synth. Anybody who wants to build a totally
different synth may go and buy his or her fucking Eurorack
system. But it would be a better synth. An object of
desire.
So what
would you dream up for the Ãœberheim
Matrix-1000
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