How to POLY-CHAIN the Oberheim Matrix 1000 & Install the Fantastic Tauntek 1.20 OS Upgrade + Sounds!

The Oberheim Matrix 1000 has been around since 1988, but did you know that it can be polychained with up to 5 other units?!? This allows for huge sounds, long decays, and no note stealing! Forget chorus, reverb or delay because this setup doesn't even need effects! To be clear, this is not a simple MIDI In/Thru setup... One unit must be set as the master and then distributes the incoming note data evenly between itself and each of the slaves. Matrix 6 and 6Rs can join the party too 🎉, but only as slave units.

We also demonstrate how to upgrade these units with the @Tauntek 1.20 OS upgrade. Add in a @Kiwitechnics patch editor and you've got a monster vintage analog synthesizer. Enjoy our quick demonstration of 3 x Matrix 1000s: 18 voices & 36 DCOs of creamy Oberheim goodness!

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*There were NO EFFECTS used whatsoever, the signal is 100% DRY!

**The CEM3396 is not just a filter as I mention briefly in the video, it is a full synthesizer voice on a chip including an oscillator, filter, envelope, etc.

***Please forgive me! We intended to show more live editing & tweaking (& did...), but yours truly forgot to hit record in Ableton 🤦 which meant we had no direct audio... It would have been silly to publish a video like this with audio from a camera mic, so we stayed late to film it all over again in a second take. If you would like to see and hear more Polychained M1000 sounds & tweaking, let us know in the comments!

****MANY Thanks to Tauntek for all his hard work rewriting vintage synth firmware!
Please BUY or DOWNLOAD your upgraded EPROMS directly from: www.tauntek.com and consider supporting Bob's amazing work (we are not affiliated w/ Tauntek in any way, just big fans).

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Thanks to www.jeffreylatour.com for the wonderful filming & editing work!

0:00 Intro
0:28 Origin & Initial Thoughts
1:02 Specs & History
2:02 The Problematic Factory OS
2:25 Tauntek Updgrade Overview
3:02 Opening the Synthesizer
3:24 Warning Message!
3:48 Circuit Board Overview
4:19 Upgrade Installation Prep
5:51 Support Tauntek!
6:26 Installing the New OS
7:55 Polychain Set up Process
9:45 MIDI Controller Setup
10:48 Patch Demonstrations
16:40 (See Display React to Incoming Midi)
16:43 Patch Demonstrations Continue
19:50 Thank You for Watching!