That's all well and good. Getting back to the nub of it though ... is
it useful to have a non-variable unity mixer to cpmbine several outputs
into an input?
Bananas have fan-out covered, but not fan-in. If I want to combine
several outputs to an input I use a mixer....
Serge outputs are usually fixed, not variable, and usually I need to
adjust different input amounts to achieve a result, or to open up
experimentation.
A multiple is NOT a mixer but rather a fan-out tool for patching methods
that don't stack.
The Synthi matrix system does add the outputs going across into a
vertical input column, right? As in delivering the arithmetic sum of
the outputs? Or does it do something else?
My exposure to the matrix stuff is very limited, but I remember there
being some inherent inaccuracies associated with the matrix patching..
crosstalk etc... which makes for interesting chaos/noise patches if
that's what you're after but limits other uses of the system.
In other words, if the matrix system was so hot then why didn't anybody
else use it?
Didn't the ARP2500 also suffer from flaky patching problems?
JP
Ben Vehorn wrote:
it useful to have a non-variable unity mixer to cpmbine several outputs
into an input?
Bananas have fan-out covered, but not fan-in. If I want to combine
several outputs to an input I use a mixer....
Serge outputs are usually fixed, not variable, and usually I need to
adjust different input amounts to achieve a result, or to open up
experimentation.
A multiple is NOT a mixer but rather a fan-out tool for patching methods
that don't stack.
The Synthi matrix system does add the outputs going across into a
vertical input column, right? As in delivering the arithmetic sum of
the outputs? Or does it do something else?
My exposure to the matrix stuff is very limited, but I remember there
being some inherent inaccuracies associated with the matrix patching..
crosstalk etc... which makes for interesting chaos/noise patches if
that's what you're after but limits other uses of the system.
In other words, if the matrix system was so hot then why didn't anybody
else use it?
Didn't the ARP2500 also suffer from flaky patching problems?
JP
Ben Vehorn wrote:
> FWIW, "that guy" has probably laid his hands on more EMS equipment
> than any of us will see in our lifetimes and probably has more matrix
> patching experience as well. Not trying to take sides, but I think he
> does know what he's talking about.
> See: Spacemen 3
> Spectrum
> Experimental Audio Research
>