Specifications

MATRIX PATTERN SEQUENCER
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D If you now click or drag in the upper grid section with the pattern
playing, you can hear how the note pitches change.
The note pitch corresponds to the keyboard printed to the left of the pattern
window, in a one octave range, and as previously mentioned, an orientation
line is visible when clicking or dragging, making it easy to find the note pitch
on the keyboard.
D If you now click or drag in the lower gate section while the pattern
is playing, you can hear how the timbre and volume changes.
D If you drag some of the vertical rectangles down so that they disap-
pear from view, the corresponding steps of the pattern are com-
pletely silenced.
D By using the 5-way switch below the “Keys/Curve” switch you can
input notes in other octave ranges (over five octaves).
Note that there can only be one note for each step in the pattern.
7. By using a combination of the methods described in the above
steps, you can program suitable note values for each step, decide
which steps should be played and set their velocity with the gate
values.
Using Curve Patterns
Curve patterns are independent patterns that can be applied separately to the
note pattern programmed in “Keys” mode. If you switch the Keys/Curve switch
to “Curve”, the note, but not the gate steps, disappear from view, and leaves the
upper area of the pattern window empty. You can now start programming a
curve pattern. Proceed as follows:
1. Draw a curve, using the same method as for notes or gates.
As you can see, the Curve pattern looks like large vertical gate steps.
D If you play the pattern, nothing has changed, i.e. the pattern sounds
exactly like it did before the Curve pattern was drawn.
This is because the Curve CV output hasn’t been connected to any parame-
ter yet.
2. Flip the rack around so you can see the back panel of the Matrix.
3. Connect the Curve CV output to the Filter Cutoff Modulation Input
on the Subtractor.
Now the curve pattern controls the filter frequency of the Subtractor.
✪ If the effect isn’t very noticeable, try raising the filter Q parameter,
and lowering the filter frequency.
D The Curve CV output can be connected to any device CV or Modula-
tion input.
Actually, Curve CV signals can also produce Gate triggers (used for trigger-
ing samples or envelopes for example).
D A Gate trigger is produced for each curve pattern step that follows a
value of “0”.
If you look at the picture below, steps 2,4 and 6 will produce a trigger, be-
cause steps 1, 3 and 5 are set to zero, but the rest of the pattern would not.