[sdiy] [AH] Matrix 1000 … virtualization via Claude

[kenny at beatkamp.com]

Hi Tod,

Wait a minute, you ported your M1000 to teensy? Thats really cool.

Did you implement the pushbuttons and/or the LED readout?


On 2026-09-28 11:29, Todd Sines wrote:
> A fellow named Bas Scheffers on the DIY Matrix 1000 has used AI for
> good
> 
> “ Matrix - Now in Digital
> 
> Time to let the cat out of the bag about what myself and Claude have
> been working on for the past few months: a digital version of the
> Matrix 1000 and a patch editor. Here we have 3 tracks of DAW plugin
> Matrix running in Logic, track 35 is my real Matrix 1000 clone and to
> the left is my prototype running the same synth engine on a Teensy 4.1
> as track 36.
> 
> The editor runs standalone as well as DAW plugin and in that form it
> translates midi CC to the SysEx the Matrix needs to modify parameters.
> So you can just automate your filter sweeps on CC 74 and the hardware
> Matrix will respond. (Best to be running Tauntek OS for that sort of
> thing!)
> 
> The digital version was created by reverse engineering the schematic
> and firmware, then it was fine-tuned first by me only prompting about
> the issues and then giving Claude access to the real hardware over
> MIDI and audio input so it could listen (using test patches it
> created) to the real response of the synth to various settings. Mind
> blowing stuff, really.
> 
> Obviously the digital version can do more than the hardware; more
> voices, custom patch storage without overwriting any memory slots,
> I'll probably even make it stereo soon. (keyboard spread as well as
> hard-panned doubling.)
> 
> All of this will be released as free open source software soon.
> 
> Excuse my cheesy faux-Italo Disco demo; I started messing around and
> that's where it landed!”
> 
> This will be up for a little bit via iCloud
> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d8C_fyAY3GcCn1Mdewkh2j_g
> 
> Todd