Re: [AH] What analogue synth have you used the most in the last month?

From Andrew Horton
Sent Wed, Nov 28th 2018, 14:12

Elektron Analog RYTM and Roland System 100
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM Synth asaurus <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrot=
e:
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> To clarify... in split mode I found that you can play a patch with one or=
 two (can remember which) voices mono-phonically. It's a nice variation fro=
m Unison mode.
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> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:08 AM Synth asaurus <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wr=
ote:
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>>  Oberheim Matrix 6...
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>>  I lent it out years ago, and when I got it back, all the patches were g=
one due to a dead battery. I read up on how to load .syx patches (took me a=
while to find some).
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>>  After loading the patches, I went through and edited many of them to be=
 more to my liking. In particular, I enjoyed being able to morph a patch us=
ing Lever 2 in the negative direction via the matrix modulations. Very powe=
rful features for the era and original price tier. I can envision a hard co=
re synth programmer back in the day being very happy with this synth, given=
 the many modulation possibilities.
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>>  After learning the menu system, I was able to edit patches pretty quick=
ly. It wasn't as frustrating as I thought it would be.
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>>  Another nice thing I found was being able to play a patch mono-phonical=
ly using the split mode. Or was it was two voices at a time (?). Doing that=
 was a nice variation from Unison mode, where all voices are triggered at t=
he same time.
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