Re: OT -- oberheim matrix 1000 vs. matrix 6 ???

[Sunao Inami <webmaster@cavestudio.com>]

Hi Dylan,

Sounds are some different, but  Access Programmer is very useful and rare..
and it can recording SysEx data by real time.turning knob is non 
stress for making sounds..

  Regards

  Sunao Inami
http://www.cavestudio.com

At 21:37 -0700 03.10.6, dylan wrote:
>hi all,
>
>sorry for this off topic post. i have an opportunity to
>snag an oberheim matrix 6r for $180. meanwhile i have an
>opportunity to buy a matrix 1000 and the access programmer
>for it for like $225 for the whole package. i'm divided on
>which i should go for, if either.
>
>i've heard a matrix 6 before. it sounded so fat and warm,
>the horns and basses especially. THAT's the sound i want.
>
>i know the matrix 6r will give me that sound. however, it
>is 4 rack spaces.
>
>i have never heard a matrix 1000. would it give me that
>same fat, warm sound?? the synth sites online say it's "the
>same" as the matrix 6r. but there HAS to be some technology
>differences, to fit it all in 1 rack space. is it still a
>true analog synth?? does it sound as fat and warm?? and it
>costs a little more, too. i would hate to shell out money i
>don't have, and then not have that warm, fuzzy sound i fell
>in love with.
>
>anybody heard either or both of these? what would you go
>for?
>
>thanks for reading. feel free to email me privately so this
>OT stuff doesn't clog up the list. THANK YOU!
>
>loop on,
>
>dylan
>
>
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