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GForce’s New Oberheim Matrix-12 Finally Makes Modulation Visible

11.06

The Oberheim Matrix-12 was already a remarkably complicated synthesizer when it appeared in 1985. Its twelve voices each contained two oscillators, a filter with fifteen operating modes, five…

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