Arturia Matrix 12 V User Manual
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USER MANUAL Version 1.0 ARTURIA Matrix-12 V User Manual -1- 1 INTRODUCTION Project management Pierre-Lin Laneyrie Product management Glen Darcey Sebastien Rochard Programming Pierre-Lin Laneyrie Toby Carpenter Vincent Travaglini Design Shaun Ellwood Morgan Perrier (decoderdesign.com) Sound design Meli Anthos Frank Greiner Paul Shilling JB Arthus Erik Norlander Luca Torre James Bernard Greg Savage Noritaka Ubukata Boele Gerkes Stéphane Schott Manual Randy Lee 1st edition, October 2014 © ARTURIA S.A. – 1999-2014 – All rights reserved. 30, chemin du Vieux Chêne 38240 Meylan FRANCE http://www.arturia.com ARTURIA Matrix-12 V User Manual -2- 1 INTRODUCTION Table of contents Table of Contents Project management .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................. 3 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Oberheim: an overview ............................................................................................................................ 6 1.1.1 Prelude ................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1.2 Lord of the Ring Modulators .............................................................................................................. 6 1.1.3 Technological innovations ................................................................................................................. 7 1.2 The Oberheim synth family: a genealogy ........................................................................................... 10 1.2.1 SEM: the little synth that could ........................................................................................................ 10 1.2.2 The polysynths: rapid growth ........................................................................................................... 11 1.2.3 Crowning achievement: the Matrix 12 ......................................................................................... 12 1.2.4 Where the sound is found… ............................................................................................................ 13 1.2.5 All good things come to an end…for a while ............................................................................. 13 1.3 Arturia’s secret ingredient: TAE® ............................................................................................................ 13 1.3.1 Aliasing-free oscillators ..................................................................................................................... 13 1.3.2 A better reproduction of analog oscillator waveforms ............................................................. 14 1.3.3 Direct Filter Circuit Modeling ........................................................................................................... 15 2 ACTIVATION & FIRST START......................................................................................................................... 17 2.1 Register & Activate .................................................................................................................................. 17 2.2 Initial setup ................................................................................................................................................. 17 2.2.1 Audio and MIDI settings: Windows ................................................................................................. 17 2.2.2 Audio and MIDI settings: Mac OS X ............................................................................................... 18 3 USER INTERFACE ............................................................................................................................................ 20 3.1 Main window components .................................................................................................................... 20 3.1.1 Tool bar ................................................................................................................................................ 21 3.1.2 Page bar ............................................................................................................................................. 21 3.1.3 Parameter window ............................................................................................................................ 21 3.1.4 Nameplate ......................................................................................................................................... 23 3.1.5 Bottom panel ...................................................................................................................................... 23 3.2 The tool bar: Managing presets............................................................................................................. 23 3.2.1 Select a bank, type, or preset ......................................................................................................... 24 3.2.2 Saving an edited preset ................................................................................................................... 26 3.2.3 Import / Export a bank of presets ................................................................................................... 26 3.3 The tool bar: Advanced features .......................................................................................................... 27 3.3.1 Panic button: if “Stuck” happens ................................................................................................... 27 3.3.2 CPU meter ........................................................................................................................................... 27 ARTURIA Matrix-12 V User Manual -3- 1 INTRODUCTION 3.3.3 MIDI control configurations ............................................................................................................. 27 3.4 Types of controls ....................................................................................................................................... 31 3.4.1 Variable controls ................................................................................................................................ 31 3.4.2 Buttons & switches ............................................................................................................................. 31 3.5 What’s a Voice? ....................................................................................................................................... 33 3.6 How to switch modes .............................................................................................................................. 33 4 SINGLE MODE ............................................................................................................................................... 34 4.1 Front Panel Functions ............................................................................................................................... 34 4.1.1 Parameter organization ................................................................................................................... 34 4.1.2 The nameplate................................................................................................................................... 36 4.1.3 The bottom panel .............................................................................................................................. 36 4.2 Parameter groups .................................................................................................................................... 37 4.2.1 VCOs .................................................................................................................................................... 38 4.2.2 FM ......................................................................................................................................................... 40 4.2.3 Filter ...................................................................................................................................................... 42 4.2.4 Lag ........................................................................................................................................................ 44 4.2.5 Ramps .................................................................................................................................................. 45 4.2.6 Envelopes (Env) .................................................................................................................................. 45 4.2.7 Tracking Generators (Track) ............................................................................................................ 46 4.2.8 LFOs ...................................................................................................................................................... 46 4.3 The Effects .................................................................................................................................................. 47 4.3.1 Delay ...................................................................................................................................................