Matrix-12 resurrecting...
2010-01-13 by mursupeppe
Hi, I've experienced a miracle. A good friend of mine, Mr. Mikko Köykkä, has managed to literally resurrect a Matrix-12 that was sold to me a while ago. Every oscillator and filter now works and the synth is actually very playable - and a very big THANK YOU comes out to this group, to all its members, the nice fellow who sold a CEM 3374 to me - and especially The Oberheim Aficionado, Karl. Without his help I would have been, well, **cked. For a while I thought this day would never come, but "dees dings do 'appen". There is a minor issue left, though. After switching the Matrix on, it's actually very unstable and becomes tunable only after 15-20 minutes. Before that, some of the RES/VCF tunings will fail randomly (OSCs and everything else are tuning every time flawlessly, without hitch), until its warmed. Is there anything I could do to heal this symptom or do I just have to take it as such? The pitchbend and modwheel are also producing quite impressive wobbling and are somewhat unusable, so we'll have to dig into those as well, but they're priority 104, so to speak ;-) Also, what type of screws and screwplates are being used in the side panels, the black ones? I've tried to find suitable parts, but unfortunately all my sources seem to have run dry. And if one of you has spare keys, I could use a few, d, g and e namely. :-D Incredible. For a short while I thought I'd scrap the whole thing and sell its parts. Now it's returning back to work after a total internal makeover. Yes, miracles do happen.