Oberheim Matrix-12 User Manual

If you have made any edits at all to the currently selected SINGLE Patch or
MULTI Patch, a little "edit indicator" dot will appear in the lower right-hand
corner of the Patch Number to remind you that the Patch has been edited. If
you play the MATRIX-12 at this point, what you will hear may not be the same
as what is stored because of the changes that you have made.The edits that
you make to a Patch are not stored into memory until the STORE button is
used. See the section on STORE later in this chapter.
SINGLE Patches and MULTI Patches: What's the Difference?
SINGLE PATCH Mode permits the creation of the actual sound programs of
the MATRIX-12. In this mode, new sounds can be created "from scratch" or
existing Patches can be changed. Making any change to a Patch is called
"editing11. Specific editing functions of SINGLE Patches arid how sounds are
created are covered in detail in Part 3: PROGRAMMING the MATRIX
VOICE. When you are playing a SINGLE Patch, all Voices play the same
sound. The MATRIX-12's ability to play different sounds at the same time is
accomplished in a MULTI Patch.
MULTI PATCH Mode allows you to take sounds from the bank of SINGLE
Patches and arrange them in a special way. Parameters like individual Voice
panning (PAN), vibrato settings (VIB), individual Voice transpositions
(TRANS), volume output adjustments (VOLUME), Zone configuations
(ZONE), etc. can be customized in this mode and programmed for each
individual MULTI Patch. Thus MULTI PATCH Mode is simply a way to take
sounds that already exist in SINGLE PATCH Mode and play them with
their own customized control Pages. Making changes to a MULTI Patch is
also called editing.
MULTI PATCH Mode permits assigning any of the 100 different SINGLE
sound Patches to the 12 Voices. Popular uses of MULTI PATCH Mode
include using a "Split" function where two Patches are played at the same time
- one from the left half and the Keyboard and the other from the right half.
"Doubling" is also possible where two Patches are overlayed across the
Keyboard and playing one key plays both sounds at once. These functions
employ the use of the ZONES where each ZONE contains one of the
Patches and is programmed to either split the Keyboard or double it. Since
the MATRIX-12 uses six ZONES, things like 6-way Splits and 6-layer Doubles
as well as a wide variety of other very unique set-ups are possible. We will
show how this is done in Part 5: CONSTRUCTING the MULTI PATCH.
2. PATCH NAME
An area of the display has been set aside to permit a Patch Name to be given
to each SINGLE Patch and each MULTI Patch. You are permitted to use up to
eight characters including the 26 letters of the English Alphabet, numerals 0
through 9, various punctuation marfcs, symbols and blank spaces. How this is
accomplished is covered later in the manual in Part 3: PROGRAMMING
the MATRIX VOICE. Refer to the NAME parameter operation on Page 139.
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Oberheim Matrix-12 Specifications

General

Brand	Oberheim
Model	Matrix-12
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English