the vca part looks like its the “voltage controlled mixer” (per voice) but then the sum of all those mixer outputs (each voice) should go into another final stereo VCA (final stereo sum) which will let you set pan etc across the stereo output per timbre
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I would hope so… for the price! It has to be?!!!
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Most every bitimbral synth I have has a program or part volume, though I’d guess they are digital in most cases.
A little time with modular and you expect your average poly must have many many VCAs.
multi-timbral Analogue polysynths have multiple stages of VCA. You simply misunderstand what VCA are for.
Thanks for synthsplaining that.
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Poly will have an amp VCA per voice.
There may be other VCAs doing other things though.
Multitimbral will still have one amp VCA per voice. On an analog synth each timbre will use some portion of the total voices. So VCA count won’t change.
At least that is typical.
You could have VCAs in the mixer, in FM circuits, and other signal routing, CV circuits, etc. Or even more exotic things.
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I think it looks like a real peach, looking forward to hearing how it sounds, but at that price I reckon I’ll covet it but never own it much like the PolyBrute 12. It’s for the best these things are beyond my financial grasp, I suppose. But I’ve gotta say it looks great.
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This one is looking very interesting to me. Not sure I have the space, but I have the desire (read: gas)
I’ve been wanting a centerpiece poly for a while now – I’ve been eyeing the Super Gemini, but I think I’ll wait for this to be released before I make my decision.
For I remember of the Matriarch, the VCO’s were from the Minimoog Voyager, and a lot of the other circuits were from Moogs modular synths, or inspired by them.
From the Matriarch manual:
Matriarch’s Oscillators are based on those found in the Minimoog Voyager and are
descendants of the classic Moog 921 Oscillator design.
It always just kind of read like marketing copy to me rather than anything very meaningful. Sort of ‘we want to try and continue the Moog Modular theme but we can’t really so we’ll say it’s a descendant because it’s made by the same company… kinda’.
Not that it matters, I love the Matriarch’s oscillators either way.
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What worries me a little are the many holes in the back. I mean, this is way more than the P10 and the OB-X8 have. Hopefully, this does not mean that it has a noisy ventilator inside - I’d actually hope for the absence thereof. Plus, of course it would be nice if there was a desktop version, though for this to happen, the key version would have to sell really well enough.
the fan on the moog one isn’t so bad when turned on the lower setting. the sight of the venting on the back does make me feel like they employed something similar architecture/layout wise to the moog one 8 voice card system with a more simplified, smaller sized voice card stack
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It could absolutely just be marketing copy. Or, it could be that because Bob Moog Designed the circuits for the Voyager, and the Moog Modular, that there is some truth in it. They do tend to carry over circuits, although with some tweaks, along the way. I think I read once that the oscillator for the Voyager was also carried over to the Slim Phatty. And that same circuit was carried over the Subs, although by then there had been some updates to it.
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The continuous waveform oscillators are indeed present on Voyagers, Little/Slim Phatties and Sub-series.
They are really nice and I wondered why Moog Music abandoned them on the family series.
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Yeah, that’s the thing - it’s a major feature of those oscillators. I could understand doing away with it for the sake of modularity if each oscillator had individual shape outputs for you to do your own crossfading between them but those are conspicuous by their absence.
Seems like Legowelt is on the pre-release hype gravy train, good for him 
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If this is the Muse it sounds nothing like a Matriarch. More lush like a Voyager.
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The Midiverb II will be doing a lot there, in fairness. Matriarch triangle oscillators into a nice reverb without clipping the mixer wouldn’t sound a million miles away.
The cat is out of the bag 
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