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  1. @ Mike A :lol:

     

    I would suggest to get Cubase or Logic or Ableton Live or some comparable sequencer.

     

    Then get some good VSTi's (Linplug Albino, Native Instruments Massive, Cakewalk Z3ta+ etc.) and a tool for Drums (e.g. NI Battery).

     

    You also need some serious FX plugins, the free Kjaerhus series is good to start with. Ambience is a good free reverb.

     

    regards - mentris

  2. Doesn't it feel like your child now after you've spent that time and effort doing such?

    Well, it was a really hard birth Posted Image and we have a connection now, but it is not only positiv :angry:

     

    Anyways, I don't know what was wrong with your pots, but next time just try some deoxy spray. It works wonders.

    They were fully worn, the man who owned the synth before was a professional live-musician who played it since 1985 :huh: I had to remove tons of confetti, it was everywhere. I even found a paper-clip under the board :rolleyes:

     

     

    Post some photos if you get the chance.

    I would like to, but unfortunately I don't own a cam...

  3. Well the last few times I tried it, it wouldn't power up. But I tried it just now and it works! Go figure. It's not hooked up to anything at the moment though and my rack is kind of awkward to get to the back of but from memory, it has crackly voices and is generally unreliable. Biggest hoover sounds though.

    The calibration-function (Master edit: No 52) might do wonders. The CEM 3396 chips are the weakest points in the matrixes, I had to replace one, too. If you need one, call me, I can make a good contact B)<_< For any special questions go to the hardcore-synth-fetishists at http://www.sequencer.de/synthesizer/index.php They have an englisch section, too.

  4. I exchanged the felt on the aftertouch-bar, soldered all cables/ contacts once more and fixed the screws carefully. Now it works again :rolleyes: But I don't know exactly, what caused the problem after all.

     

    Aditionally I exchanged all buttons (23 pieces, ugh), replaced the two potentiometers in the levers and exchanged one broken voice chip. It was a lot of work and much sweat but now I'm happy with my matrix 6, everything works fine :lol:

     

    Only the surface is not that beautiful anymore, many rusty areas. Maybe I find a solution even for that. Any ideas?

  5. Hello,

    I have a "new" Oberheim Matrix 6 since last week. Unfortunately the Aftertouch doesn't work properly. I assume that the aftertouch-bar under the keys is broken. Do you know where to get replacement parts for that? Are there other synths that have such aftertouch-bars that might fit? It's monophonic, all voices react on aftertouch in the same way at the same time. I mean- they should do that, but ATM they don't ;)

  6. here are some interesting facts taken from: plur magazine nov 97

     

    PLUR: What do you have in your studio?( if you think this is a

    secret, you don't have to answer this one)

     

    AP: First of all great acoustics, I designed and built the studio

    myself with the help of an architect friend. I have a lot of Roland gear

    mostly old analog stuff: MKS's, JX's, JUNO's, TR's. A lot of analog

    synths of various types, high-end out board gear like Lexicon and

    Valley. Some digital recorders, ADATs etc.......I have a nice GH CH

    desk with automation, IBM & ATARI computers and a very special

    30 years old Neumann tube microphone.

    PLUR: Let's get to the technical side the other musicians are

    curious about. What's the main synthesizer or sampler you use?

     

    AP: Emu Emaxўє, Roland MKS50, TR909, TB303, SH101 There's

    no main synth really and we don't sample that much but almost

    every song we do has: EN EMAX II, Roland MKS 50, TR 909, TB

    303, SH 101, and a lot more........

     

    PLUR: Many of your tracks have this long "kick". How do you make

    it?

     

    AP: I program the kick on an analog synth of some kind then eq,

    compress, gate, sample it.

     

    PLUR: Do you use lots of effect on tracks, like filter, envelope, or

    compressor? How?

     

    AP: Yeah, I use a lot of delays, chorusing for stereo image, I

    compress the rhythm section sometimes.

    source: http://www.uic.nnov.ru/~udr/astralpr.htm

  7. I want to buy an alpha juno 2 or an MKS-50 becaus I like the sound of analog gear and menawhile I'm a bit tired of software-sound. Unfortunately I use Cubase SL 3 and it's not possible to control synths with mixermaps or something similar because SL doesn't have this feature (in opposite to SX). Does anybody know if there is a solution to control synths with cubase SL (or another software) on PC and a normal midi-controller that isn't capable of sending sysex (I have an M-Audio Radium)? Or do I have to get a sysex-controller like e.g. Behringer BCR?

     

    regards - Martin

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