#voice chip

I got a reasonably priced Oberheim Matrix-1000, originally released 1987. It’s a polyphonic synth with six voices, two DCOs per voice, fully analog signal path and extensive modulation routing options – and its sound is beautiful.

But yeah, it’s a rack module and without editing options via the front panel, and it has a thousand presets and only 200 of them are editable remotely via MIDI.

The trouble with this particular item was that the fifth voice chip was broken (which I found out after buying). Moreover, the firmware running the synth was slow and contained bugs.

Fortunately someone on the internet has updated the code and they have made it available on a EPROM chip, so I ordered that. I also found a replacement voice chip and got that as well. Installing the new firmware and voice chip into the old machine was easy enough – the chips are just sitting in sockets. The voice chips counts from right to left (one to six) and are marked U101-U601.

Sally:  I do know the one and it's the loneliest number that you'll ever do.  Kidding, having sex with just one person for the rest of your life is fine and dandy.  It's what God (the one and only God, let's just be clear about that) would want. 

But really now I don't think most straight ladies don't care about their numbers because we can just do what all ladies are great at, which is lying!  We can just lie, lie, lie.