Matrix-1000 editor

[Martin Czech]

> Don't kill me now, but I had a thought today...
> I got myself a Matrix-1000 yesterday and already I'm tired of having to shut down cubase and
> start the editor up to edit a sound, and then shut it down and start cubase again when you're done.

Thats why i keep the atari, I edit sounds with that machine and run the sequencer
on a IBM-compatible machine.

> Well.. No matter how good an editor is, you still feel really handicapped being forced to klick your way around
> and sliding to change parameters. So.. You know where this is heading, don't you?
> An editor.. With all the parameters available at once.. Expensive as hell.. Yes..
> But.. Won't it be worth it? .. Has someone else tried this already (and failed? :)...

Yes, a company named Jellinghaus here in Germany did a hardware editor for the dx7
ages ago, lots of knobs, it was a financial disaster, and it is said to  have
brought the whole company quite down.

On the other hand, if you are willing to take the pain ...
There are a lot of microcontrollers with 8 bit ADC and ports for setting up the
switch-matrix for the pots. Given that you have a development environment
for such a thing, and you know the sysex code for all parameters,
and you have already a midi interface in the micro-board, the first pot/parameter should
be done in a hours time...

m.c.