Oberheim Matrix 1000. Somebody must know someone who has one?

GavRichList

in a dusty cupboard or unused rack unit, there must be one waiting to come my way, surely?

goldtop

One just turned up here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OBERHEIM-MATRIX-1000-VINTAGE-SYNTHESIZER-CLASSIC-ANALOGUE-RACK-SYNTH-MANUAL-/381802476654

GavRichList

Gah! Bit top heavy price wise, that....

*Glen Ponders*

GavRichList

BOOM

octatonic

I had one in 2007-2010.
Great synth.

GavRichList

And now I have one! Used on Massive Attacks Mezzanine. So that's nice. 

Sarge

Ah, you got one, cool. 
I was about to suggest looking for a Cheetah ms6,  same internal gubbins but different facia layout,  also there's a cool EPROM upgrade for it by Christopher Maad in Sweden,  makes it fully midi cc and other handy tweaks,  sold mine to Rick Wakeman believe it or not  
really miss it obviously... 

GavRichList

@sarge vintagesynth.com list the very same RW as a user of it.... you should claim some kind of citation! 

Sarge

@GavRichList at the time of sale he already had 6 of them in storage, none with the Maad chip though! 

GavRichList

I'm dead excited to get it. Think I'll download this guys patches - sounds are amazing. 

Sarge

Goddammit not heard an Obi patch for ages,  jealousy! 

GavRichList

Beautiful, no? 

Sarge

very! 

lasermonkey

I have the MS6 and it does come close to the Oberheim sound (I compared it against a friend's Matrix 6R). It doesn't have the flexibility mind, but it's always been considerably cheaper.
Glad you found your Matrix @GavRichList !

GavRichList

Yeah, really happy. Now trying to decide whether to buy an updated firmware eprom

GavRichList

Post came before I left for work....

roll on this evening!

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/Mobile Uploads/B1454FF3-1B30-4D04-A112-2D9C1F2CD17B.jpg

goldtop

Good stuff. Hope to hear something soon.

Today I am mostly waiting for UPS to turn up with 36U of rack cabinets. Empty rack cabinets, and I've only got about 10U of stuff to put in them... 

GavRichList

Best get spending then!