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From: markh@rtech.UUCP (Mark Hanner)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Re: Oberheim Matrix 6
Message-ID: <169@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 11:24:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 11:24:02 1986
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well i bought one. and i love it! yes, it only allows two simultaneous
patches and doesn't have as many ramp and tracking generators as the
Matrix 12 or xpander, but for someone like me who's only experience
with these things was a few months with an arp 2600 ten years ago,
its buck rogers time. i also didn't have another grand to spare...
(guitar center tells walk-ins that it is $1400, but their mailing
list ads had it at $1199 a month or two ago and i was able to talk
them into taking that...). 

the calculator keypad is a bit cumbersome, but they have done a
good job of organizing the patch info, so i've gotten fairly used
to it even after just a few days. nonetheless, i'm anxious to 
write a patch editor for my pc. although all of the pieces are
the same, patches are not very portable between the matrix12/xpander
and the matrix6 as i found out by trying to set up the xpander piano
patch in the feb issue of keyboard. it takes a little imagination
to work around the missing generators, etc. but it can be done...

someday i will find out about these new-fangled "digital synthesizers",
but the oberheims prove that analog is not dead...


-- 
cheers,
mark hanner

markh@rtech.ARPA
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