OBERHEIM SYNTH

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, jan@eggers-elektronik.de [oberheim] <oberheim@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:

 Oggetto: [oberheim] Dream on, geek: The Überheim 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 Überheim
 Matrix-1000?
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
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