I use the BassMIDI soundfont player, which provides a lot of control options and can do some very useful things. But I'm not looking forward to having to sample every sound from both a Matrix 6r and a Matrix 1000, 1100 patches, across at least 61 keys to get several huge sound banks that would require a lot of memory in a machine to load the sounds, so though that has some possible value it's not optimum. I'll do that if I have to, but I'd rather not.
Any free VST or, preferably, stand alone player would be great. (I'll have to use a VST interface like VST Host for my current setup, as QWS, my current sequencer, doesn't have VST support)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 9:35 AM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: R: [oberheim] Returning and a Softsynth Question
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> Hi !
> I maybe could help regarding the first part of Your mail.
> An inexpensive way to manage Your Oberheim sounds on Pc could be done
> using a Soundfont sample manager synth. Can't remember now wich is the
> best, but i've read somewhere there are some freeware Vsts, too! Give a
> look on KVR site, or Google around for a free Sounfont synth. Some
> people sell online Sounfont packs for almost any synth, but You could
> build Your ones with sounds You like the best using programs like
> Samplerobot, if my memory doesn't fail. Using Soundfonts packs, or Wav
> or so many other ones, is the most comfortable way to have Your synths
> in a Pc, but..... How beautiful is putting my hands on the real thing
> !! :-) .
> Hope other users could help more with more details about Your
> questions.
> Cheers,
> Francesco.
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> Mar 4/11/14, 'Nicole Massey' nyyki@... [oberheim]
> < oberheim@yahoogroups.com > ha scritto:
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> Oggetto: [oberheim] Returning and a Softsynth Question
> A: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Data: Martedì 4 novembre 2014, 17:56
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> After a break to deal with other things I'm back on the mailing list
> here. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good softsynth, preferably
> either freeware or very inexpensive, that will read Matrix6/6r/1000
> sounds and play them back with a decent level of fidelity. My studio is
> currently in mothballs until I can get a space constructed for it, and
> so I'm using a lot of softsynths to do things until it's up and running
> again. I miss my Matrix 6r and 1000 sounds, so I'm wondering if there's
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> I'm also wondering how Gibson has been treating the Oberheim brand or
> if they still own it. Since they are trying to buy Cakewalk (or may
> have already closed the deal, I don't keep up with such things very
> often) I think it'd tell a lot about how they're going to handle
> another high tech company that doesn't focus on guitars and amplifiers.
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