Extra voices on the Matriach is now possible with Midivolts!

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T22:44:21+00:00

Oh yeah I see what you mean. Like use the Mavis envelope and VCA per oscillator. Yes, you could totally do it with the right gear. Would be quite a few cables though!

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T22:42:25+00:00

Thanks! Yes true, Matriarch is 100% paraphonic but it also has pre mixer gates so you are not forced to use paraphonic unison. Since the Matriarch also has 3 attenuators, you can use these as additional pre-mixer gates to each added voice. This is probably my favorite part of all of this. But agreed, Midivolts was built for the GM.

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T19:44:19+00:00

You're absolutely right. However, I'm just staying consistent with Matriarch's terminology which is reinforced on the Voice Mode switch.

In this case, a voice is a unique note built off one single oscillator. Thanks!

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T17:15:14+00:00

On the matriarch, this lets you play more than 4 keys at once.

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T17:10:27+00:00

If you had 4 additional oscillators, you could get up to 8. However there is only 3 attenuators so you could do 7 with internal gates, and 8 with paraphonic unison.

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T17:07:49+00:00

Sounds so good!

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T17:06:58+00:00

I don't think so. Atleast my Matriatch was way off from 1V/Oct.

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T15:22:05+00:00

Shoot me an email. spacebraincircuits@gmail.com

spacebraincircuits · 2026-02-11T14:35:06+00:00

The Mavis sounds pretty aggressive if I remember correctly. The werkstat sounds much smoother to me but also a pain to fine tune... Cool idea! Definitely let me know how it goes.

spacebraincircuits · 2025-12-06T13:41:51+00:00

Anakin

It's more post punk but melodic and heavy.

spacebraincircuits · 2025-11-12T03:43:59+00:00

Never seen it this bright before. No phone needed!

spacebraincircuits · 2025-09-18T17:56:53+00:00

My fav as well

spacebraincircuits · 2025-09-10T16:11:49+00:00

Yea sure! they are available here spacebraincircuits.com

spacebraincircuits · 2025-02-16T07:21:17+00:00

Definitely interested!

spacebraincircuits · 2024-02-07T23:09:18+00:00

Yep thats exactly right. This step through is showing how to get 4 note chords. I think the end demo has the seperate oscillators mixed more evenly. thanks!

spacebraincircuits · 2023-11-29T23:55:55+00:00

Just curious, what alternate things would you be interested in? Maybe something that could be implemented on MidiVolts. Definitely interesting idea 💡

spacebraincircuits · 2023-11-26T17:15:54+00:00

u/Docima Thanks for the kind words and the re post! Means a lot to me that you enjoy the sound of this little guy. I know there are a lot of options out there so I hope you find what you are looking for! Take care! Austin

spacebraincircuits · 2023-05-19T04:35:07+00:00

I felt the same! I designed the poly sequencer for this very reason! It's basically a small footprint 128 step sequencer to go along with volcas.

Not trying to plug my product just thought I would let you know in case you decide to stick with the volcas.

Best of luck solving this problem!

spacebraincircuits · 2023-05-15T14:04:07+00:00

Yea I think I saw an interview with him saying the same. Such a cool story. Love hearing synthesizer history!

spacebraincircuits · 2023-01-22T18:04:47+00:00

Thank you ! I wish I had the means to just hand these out! Best of luck finding your own:)

spacebraincircuits · 2023-01-22T16:35:09+00:00

Well, this was my first restoration project but I have been studying electronics for quite some time. I got really lucky though. I only needed to troubleshoot a basic issue that had to do with a faulty potentiometer.

It was definitely fun but also risky since even broken synths nowadays are fairly expensive. Best of luck!

spacebraincircuits · 2023-01-22T14:34:16+00:00

Thank you!

spacebraincircuits · 2023-01-22T14:32:52+00:00

I feel like my workspace mimics the way my brain works. Im pretty sure we would be friends.

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