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I keep moving sound banks between my two Matrixes anyway, so I have pretty recent Sysex backups.
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The battery in its new holder, now in the correct position: the plus terminal facing upwards
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Well, I put the battery in the wrong way round anyway, thereby effectively losing all my patch and memory settings. And is labeled with a clearly visible “+” sign. You might not have realised – well, I never do – but the pad connector of a CR2032 is actually the GND terminal, and the housing is Vcc. Only to slide in the new battery the wrong way round.
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(Actually bollocks, but I did it anyway.) So I saved my precious memory settings while soldering in the battery holder. While soldering, I bridged the backup battery voltage with an external power supply, and I even thought of desoldering the GND terminal first – the rationale behind this being that soldering pens are earthed, so by soldering the positive terminal first you might short out the battery. No problem, I came across battery holders with the same 20.5mm raster used in the Matrix – so no need for drilling, just a simple solder-and-replace job. I guess they never thought that they were building for the anoraks of the future. By lucky chance, I am the proud owner of two Matrixes, and the battery in this one has been doing fine – what kind of super battery did they use in these days, has been in service ever since 1989, and still producing fine 3.0 Volts of power – but I decided to exchange it anyway for a new CR-2032.Īs you might know, the battery in the Matrix-1000 is soldered in with most machines, as it was customary with most synths from these days. Well, to change the firmware, you have to open the Matrix and exchange the firmware EPROM for a new one, and doing that, I’ve noticed that this machine was still equipped with its original battery. (I used Modstep as a drum machine/sequencer on the iPad, and my Matrix-1000 control panel for TB Midi Stuff – other than the new iPad editor, it does produce smooth parameter sweeps.) Smooth real-time control, very musical in my opinion, even better than GliGli’s great v1.16 hack – I’ve described the differences in this Gearslutz post – and, in the last couple of iterations, displaying the value of edited parameters. Happy days! Bob Grieb just sent the newest iteration of his brilliant firmware rewrite for the Oberheim Matrix-1000 for testing – a firmware that breathes new life into the old 8-bit hardware by optimising critical routines for a couple of crucial parameters. And if you consider changing the battery yourself, you can find a step-by-step description with video here. You may have to repeat that a couple of times to get a stuck Matrix unstuck.
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Posted in Maschinelles | Tagged Bob Grieb, Firmware, Matrix-1000, Matrix-6, Oberheim, Update | Leave a reply Resetting a Matrix-1000 with a new batteryĠ3-2020: Two important updates: There is a much simpler way to reset the memory in the Matrix – just hold the ENTER key while switching it on. Details on the Matrix-6 update: bit.ly/m6firmware.Details on the Matrix-1000 update: bit.ly/m1000firmware.
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You can find a first batch of Matrix-1000 update PROMs on eBay, as well as update PROMS for the Matrix-6 and 6R – if they are gone, just follow one of the links below – there are order forms at the end of those pages. The price for the update is €25 plus shipping,this contains a payment to Bob as a recognition of the endless hours he spent in analysing and rewriting the code.
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And even for Matrix-1000 owners that have been using GliGli’s v1.16 patches, the new software offers, in my humble and slightly biased opinion, great advantages.īob has started shipping EPROM chips containing the new code to people who do not have an EPROMMER available, and I’ve agreed to doing the same thing over in Europe. The code seems to be running fine and is definitely a huge improvement: Matrix-6 owners will gain a machine that is much more responsive, and has been ridded of a couple of nasty bugs. Bob Grieb’s brilliant firmware rewrite for the Matrix-6 and Matrix-1000 machines has been in testing for some time.