Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Main processor board with original battery.

My Home Office in January 2013

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

AIS office in Greenbelt, MD some years ago

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Up and running, although the display is missing several characters for some as-yet unknown reason.

A few of the elements on the display are still not functioning. I haven't yet identified the cause. Although not impossible, it seems odd to burn out just a few in the VFD itself, so I'm focusing on the signal path to get there.

Me with an Emu modular that my friend is working on.

Detail of the Pi-DAC+ pin outs

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Dusty!

My friends (mostly) Polyfusion modular synthesizer. There is some other stuff in there (MOTM , Modcan , Asys , Roland , TC , Doepfer) but it is 90% Polyfusion. It is a unique beast.

Available Feb 8th....

Drilling the holes for pots

Built into an old desktop intercom. Labels were silkscreened on.

Get your own Thingamakit at bleeplabs.com

The ARP Odyssey II Synthesizer along with SH7 and Jupiter 4..

a very powerful synth (DAF!) - this is a model II, so it has the 24 dB filters, there ARE mods around, sooner or later to be installed..

this model has a live-able keyboard ..

www.sequencer.de/syns/moog

Building the frame

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Up and running, although the display is missing several characters for some as-yet unknown reason.

LCD frame - the bottom layer with black self-adhesive carpet-like fabric

MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth in progress...

....click on 'all sizes' to read.

LCD and the frame

This is my workspace.

www.myspace.com/radiospectacular

MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth in progress... Both (mostly completed) boards and a little bit of my work area.

Synthesizer

My Home Office in November 2011

USB MIDI cable board before hacking

now what do all those patch cables do again?

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Up and running, although the display is missing several characters for some as-yet unknown reason.

A bunch of moog modules scattered about the floor

The board is small enough to fit inside a Korg Monotron. I used a 3.5mm jack to get the control signal in. The output is wired to the junction of R5 and the ribbon controller, and power comes from an unpopulated decoupling capacitor in the middle of the board.

www.fetchmodus.org/projects/serialcv/

Modular synth at the Colorado Modular Synth Festival

Kalimba + microphone + Korg monotron (slightly modded)

joy of use: plenty

sonic experience with headphones: tranquilizing

live possibilities, apart from creating superb feedback noise: could be improved :)

Early music synthesizers required patch cords to interconnect the modules, leading to a rat's nest of wires. This model eliminated the mess with a cross-connect panel, visible in the lower left. See the close-up photo.