Matrix-1000 editor

[j. austin]

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>> 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.
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>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? :)...
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>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...


Or maybe just buy a Peavey PC-1600????


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