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On 04-02-02 17.20, "JAMES FOWLER, III" <jimfowler@prodigy.net> wrote: > > i'm on the fence regarding which synth to buy...either the emu vintage >pro or > the ANALOG!!! oberheim matrix 1000. anybody wanna try and convince me >one way > or the other? > > -jim Hi Jim, I'm not quite sure about exactly what type of advice you are after here, but as for sound I have to say that I'm still very happy with my Matrix-1000 after using it for 12 years. I have run it from a midi guitar with each voice (it has 6 voices) playing over its dedicated midi channel and the guitar sending each string assigned to a midi channel of its own. The idea about such an unusual mode is to allow each string to send different pitch bend data and it's working pretty well. But I finally skipped over the entire "midi guitar chapter" since I never learned to play it as well as a normally sounding guitar. Today I use the Oberheim as a quick sound source when crating music with Logic and I keep it patched into my soundcard, together with a Really Nice Compressor, to record it as sound files on the fly. I find it a very good complement to the digital virtual instruments available today. It has a nice character and is easily recognizable in a mix, be it tweaked by Alex Patterson or William Orbit. Very inspiring sounds I would say and I don't miss the ability to program new sounds on the unit. Although I can do that from Logic with a certain environment I tend to find it more creative as a "Oberheim Synth Sound Library". The EMU vintage I do not own, but I have had the EMU 1 for 13 (?) years. Never use it today. If you want some of those vintage sounds you might as well download some soundfonts from the Internet, I would say ;-) Best regards Per Boysen -- http://www.boysen.se Public Music Beta Testing http://www.looproom.com/p2p/