I only have a 'mini and am finding it pretty wowing once I decided to fool with it everyday especially after I hooked up a sustain pedal to it. I don’t fool with the Matix much or if at all but might have to look into it as I quickly found out that each preset has a different implementation for what the pedal controls. I am predisposed to confusion but am I mistaken or does some presets act differently as to the sustain if the pedal is pressed before or after a note is held? I do have this slight issue with the Matrix not launching when it’s connected to my Window’s Surface with a USB cord, maybe it’s the cord itself but have yet to investigate.
I am curious to hear any and all opinions, tips, etc. from Continuum owners. Favorite presets and such, and anything really anything that might assist me in learning to be more competent when playing it. Are these sounds which are sometimes produced when the surface is struck with some amount of force, boingy type sounds, user error or actually built into the sound engine to mimic certain aspects of playing acoustic instruments in perhaps an unconventional fashion?
I’m sure most owners have already seen this video below, I watched it more than a few times and always find it inspiring…
Anyways, that’s all from me for now…
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I have and love a Half-Size with the old rack-mounted CVC. If I can, I hope to get a Slim within the next 12 months. The Eagenmatrix editor is critical even if you don’t want to edit you patches in the Matrix. You can do things like adjust the recirculation of the reverb, change the range of the octave switching, and adjust the pitch rounding to your tastes.
Lots of the patches react very differently depending on whether you use a swift tap or a sustained pressure. Sally Sparks shows off this sort of thing in this video:
I am eagerly awaiting the new DSP upgrade boards that will allow current half-sized and full-sized instruments to get the DSP and I/O of the Slims. Supply chain issues have slowed production to a standstill, though.
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Quality tech help (including getting the Haken Editor running) is available via the Facebook group. Facebook is awful for maintaining an orderly archive of trackable threaded discussion, so it’s surprising and unfortunate that players and engineers at this level of competence have settled for such a lowest common denominator. It is responsive, though, and frequented by people with deep knowledge of the instruments.
