Godric Wilkie's M6 and Matrix 1000 patches for Peavey PC1600 These notes describe the set of five patches for the Peavey PC1600 which act as a "front panel" for the Oberheim M6, M6R and Matrix 1000. The patches work fine on my M6R and I have no reason to suppose that they would fail on the other Obies, but I have never tried them myself - I'd welcome any confirmation that they work on those machines. The five patches give access to every non-negative parameter on the M6. Those parameters which have negative ranges (typically modulation depths) are not available, although their positive ranges are. It seems that you have to do something complicated to the M6 in order to program negative ranges externally, for example Dr. T's editing program "Matrix Tricks" sends the sysex for all parameters of an entire voice if you change one of these parameters to the negative. Each patch includes the M6 "wake up call" as a set up string, which puts the M6 ready to receive single parameter edit messages. Oscils. This accesses the parameters for Oscillators 1 and 2: Oscillator 1 is on faders and switches 1 - 6; Oscillator 2 is on faders and switches 7 - 12; Detune and Oscillator Balance are faders 13 and 14 respectively; switch 13 sends "all notes off" message; switch 14 makes the Oscillator Balance equal; switches 15 and 16 send a low and high note on/off message whose velocity is preset by the associated fader. VCF VCA port This accesses the parameters for VC Filter, VC Amplifiers and Portamento: VCF is on faders and switches 1 - 7; VCA1 is on faders and switches 8 & 9; VCA2 is on fader and switch 10; Portamento is on faders and switches 11 - 13; switch 6 sends "all notes off" message; switches 8 - 10 max out the associated VCA parameter; switches 15 and 16 send a low and high note on/off message whose velocity is preset by the associated fader; fader and switch 14 and switch 7 do zip, but hang out on street corners waiting for welfare. Env1 LFO1 This accesses the parameters for Envelope Generator 1 and LFO 1: Envelope 1 is on faders and switches 1 - 8; LFO 1 is on faders and switches 9 - 14; switch 6 sends "all notes off" message; switches 15 and 16 send a low and high note on/off message whose velocity is preset by the associated fader; switches 5 and 7 do zip, but complain that they weren't consulted before decisions affecting their lives were made. Env2 LFO 2 As above but for Env2 and LFO 2 and switches 5 and 7 still do zip, but arrive early at parties without any beer and then hang in the kitchen getting drunk and vomiting into the microwave every half hour. Env3 Trk Rmps This accesses the parameters for Envelope Generator 3, the Tracking Generator and Ramp Generator 1 & 2: Envelope 3 is on faders and switches 1 - 8; Tracking Generator is on faders and switches 9 - 14; Ramp1 & 2 rates are on faders 15 & 16 respectively; switch 6 sends "all notes off" message; switches 15 and 16 send a low and high note on/off message with fixed velocity; switches 5 and 7 - 10 do zip, but there are more of them and they are about to form their own street gang if they can just decide what colours to wear. I'd appreciate feedback on how useful you found these presets: godric@gozen.demon.co.uk g.wilkie@kingston.ac.uk and if you get real bored you could do worse than visit my synthesiser, sound, chaos and lemur related web site at: http://www.gozen.demon.co.uk/godric/godric.html this site is mirrored at: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~mu_s454/godric/godric.html Enjoy Godric Wilkie February 1999