OBERHEIM SYNTH

Sorry.
I remeber now that probably each CEM chip has a resonance and cutoff section on its own... Am I wrong? So the less organic sound on the M1000 is an issue of the "narrow body" Cem instead of the "regular sized" CEM found on the Matrix6. Or maybe a digital control of the filter on the Matrix 1000 makes them to work too "tight", making them to sound a little poorer...As a cat on a leash looses personality... :-)
Anyway, googleing around, I found an interesting thing about the Cheetah M6, that uses the same narrow body CEM 3396 chips of the Matrix1000. And there is the chance, as the site keeper writes, to add some extra waveforms on the Cheetah. Maybe also on Matrix 1000?
Here are the pages that maybe could be useful to You:

http://www.maad.net/ms6/

http://wolzow.mindworks.ee/analog/m1k-hardware.htm

Just write me what do You think, I know it's too easy to suggest something hard, when You have not to work upon it. But, who knows...?
Cheers,
Francesco.
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Gio 10/7/14, F.Manduca <resistenzaaoltranza@...> ha scritto:

 Oggetto: R: [oberheim] Dream on, geek: The Überheim Matrix-1000 Project
 A: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
 Data: Giovedì 10 luglio 2014, 15:31
 
 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@...
 [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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