User Guide / Owners Manual

ARTURIA – Matrix-12 V – USER MANUAL 3
Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 7
1.1 Oberheim: an overview ........................................................................................................................ 7
1.1.1 Prelude .............................................................................................................................................. 7
1.1.2 Lord of the Ring Modulators ............................................................................................................. 7
1.1.3 Technological innovations ............................................................................................................... 8
1.1.3.1 Polyphony ................................................................................................................................................................. 8
1.1.3.2 Sequencers ............................................................................................................................................................... 9
1.1.3.3 Presets ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
1.1.3.4 Drum machines ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
1.1.3.5 MIDI .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11
1.2 The Oberheim synth family: a genealogy ....................................................................................... 11
1.2.1 SEM: the little synth that could ....................................................................................................... 11
1.2.2 The polysynths: rapid growth.......................................................................................................... 13
1.2.3 Crowning achievement: the Matrix 12 .......................................................................................... 13
1.2.4 Where the sound is found… ........................................................................................................... 14
1.3 All good things come to an end…for a while ................................................................................ 14
1.4 Arturia’s secret ingredient: TAE
®
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1.4.1 Aliasing-free oscillators ................................................................................................................... 15
1.4.2 A better reproduction of analog oscillator waveforms................................................................. 16
1.4.3 Direct Filter Circuit Modeling .......................................................................................................... 17
2 ACTIVATION AND FIRST START ...................................................................................... 19
2.1 Register and Activate .......................................................................................................................... 19
2.2 Initial setup ............................................................................................................................................. 19
2.2.1 Audio and MIDI settings: Windows ................................................................................................. 19
2.2.2 Audio and MIDI settings: Mac OS X ............................................................................................... 22
2.2.3 Using Matrix-12 V in plug-in mode .................................................................................................. 22
3 USER INTERFACE .............................................................................................................. 23
3.1 The virtual keyboard ............................................................................................................................ 23
3.2 Toolbar .................................................................................................................................................... 23
3.2.1 Save Preset ..................................................................................................................................... 23
3.2.2 Save Preset As… ............................................................................................................................. 24
3.2.3 Import preset .................................................................................................................................. 24
3.2.4 Export preset ................................................................................................................................... 25
3.2.5 Resize window options ................................................................................................................... 25
3.2.6 Audio settings ................................................................................................................................. 26
3.2.7 Preset browser overview ................................................................................................................ 26
3.2.8 MIDI Learn assignment ................................................................................................................... 27
3.2.8.1 Assigning / unassigning controls .......................................................................................................................... 28
3.2.8.2 Min / Max value sliders .......................................................................................................................................... 29
3.2.8.3 Relative control option.......................................................................................................................................... 29
3.2.8.4 Reserved MIDI CC numbers ................................................................................................................................. 29