I’m on a business trip right now and noticed a music store not far away from my hotel.
The most “analogue” synth I have owned was the Moog Minitaur, but damn, when I played the Matriarch in the said store, I was blown away!
I usually don’t have access to a good music store with lots of synths, so I haven’t played a real analog synth in a while. But this Moog synth really sparked my interested in buying one. The sound of of headphones was so huge and lively, I couldn’t believe it
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@midnightoperator94 How are those sidepanels mounted and who made them? very interested.
Yes! Sequential Take 5 pairs really well with the Grandmother. It’s very immediate and no fuss like the Grandmother. It’s not much bigger than the Grandmother but has a similar incredible feeling Fatar keyboard that has more keys and a great split option. It sounds awesome and covers a lot of ground the Grandmother can’t, not just in terms of polyphony, but timbre, so it doesn’t feel like there’s too much overlap.
Whereas the Grandmother is straight up early 1970s magic, the Take 5 will bring you into the late 70s, early 80s, with more of the Prophet vibe, but also has a very complex (yet surprisingly easy to use) modulation matrix that you don’t have to touch if you don’t want to at first, but leaves loads of room for growth into wilder, more modern sounds. I was torn about whether to get the T5 or the Prophet 6, but for the amount I could spend and the size of my studio, I would have had to have gone with the desktop module, rather than the keyboard version, and I think the keyboard brings a lot to the synth here. Anyway, killer combo in my opinion.
Cool trick for making the sequencer slow down and speed up again. At subtler settings, the sequencer breathes a little more than normal. I’m sure more extreme settings could be fun as well.
Also includes patching in filter and stuff.
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I don’t think the bug was caused by any firmware update. It’s replicable all the way back to the first firmware.
But it also baffles me, that they don’t fix this. That we don’t get any global-setting to change how the envelopes work in paraphonic multi-mode. I hope more people can write their customer service about this, if it annoys them.
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Fantastic!!!
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Yeah, Moog seam to drop the updates pretty fast of their products. At least on the Matriarch. It’s not okay when they have the prices that they have.
Can we make a list of all bugs that still exists in this thread together? I can send that list to Moog. I have a Matriarch, but it’s been a while since I used it. So what are the bugs that exist?
Wrong. V 1.1.0 works ok regarding note articulation.
Back in the days I made a complete M4L device that was supposed to handle the infamous “Globals”. I can’t remember the details, but some of the sysex messages didn’t work.
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Here’s the test I just made.
A MIDI clip playing in Ableton Live : a 1 bar note, and three 1/8 notes on beat 2, 3 and 4.
Matriarch is in 4 voice mode. Oscillator 1 is turned down and round-robin mode is default, so first note is always oscillator 1. No release on the envelopes.
Screenshots are :
- MIDI clip
- Firmware 1.1.0
- Firmware 1.2.3
Great thanks, it’s on the list. That’s a shame that it didn’t work. Would really want such a M4L device!
Here it is if you want to give it a try.
Can’t remember what’s working and what’s not. It’s been a while and I was so pissed off that I gave up. (I f*cking hate them). CF_Matriarch_editor 0.03.amxd (479.6 KB)
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One of the ‘bugs’ I remember now is that you can’t set the mechanical ‘switches’ (like the voice mode for instance) via MIDI. They ‘force’ to the physical state. Hopefully fixable with firmware.
Okay, thanks so much! It’s already loaded in to Ableton and will test it out in a moment. It’s really nice if just some parameters work!
I just ran a Matriarch through a Tweed Champ amp. It was quite a thing.
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Can you upload a taste?
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This is why I use amp sims! Too much of hassle to record an amp in a room.
I wonder how it would sound through my Strymon iridium, though…
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If you do this, I’d be so grateful if you recorded and shared the results. I am slowly building up a pedalboard, and wondered if the Iridium would pair well with the Matriarch. I haven’t really found any synth demos of the Iridium online…
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Am I correct in thinking that you cannot disable key tracking for one or more oscillators. For example, if I have a sequence playing and a dummy cable patched to osc4 pitch in, osc4 will always follow the pitch of osc1?
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You’re right. That would have been better (more flexible) in my opinion if plugging a jack into the pitch input was disabling key tracking instead of adding the input CV to the keyboard CV, as you could always use the keyboard CV output.