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The Oberheim Matrix-12 Black Friday deal from GForce Software takes 30% off this synth plugin, which puts it at $83.99 until Nov 28, 2026.
The Matrix-12 was the most ambitious analogue synth Oberheim ever made. GForce says this is the only official Matrix-12 and Xpander software instrument, built with Oberheim and Marcus Ryle, one of the original designers.
The maker says the oscillators, filter and envelope shapes were modelled against the hardware. The brief was to sound like a Matrix-12.
It is a twelve-voice synth plugin. Each voice has two VCOs with triangle, saw and pulse, and the second adds noise and hard sync.
Next in the signal path sits a filter offering fifteen modes. Low pass runs from one to four poles, and you also get high pass, band pass, notch and phase responses, plus the familiar blended types. Two VCAs in series follow.
The maker says the signal path is simple on purpose. The depth sits in what moves it.
Each voice has its own modulation toolkit: 5 envelope generators, 5 low-frequency oscillators, 4 ramp generators, 3 trackers and a lag processor, with a separate vibrato section on top. Keyboard, velocity, release velocity, pressure, pitch bend, mod wheel and MPE can all act as sources.
A fresh random value is generated per note, so the voices always differ slightly from one another. The modulation matrix is fully open: any source can control any destination, and a source can even modulate itself. To set up a connection, pull a crosshair out of a source and release it over the parameter you want to control. Each parameter has six bipolar modulation slots with quantise, and a green corona on the knob shows where the sound will move.
On the original hardware, most of this sat behind a small display. The Matrix-12 voice can be inspected in a table that lists all of its routings, where you can order, narrow down and change each link.
Multi mode makes each voice its own timbre. Six keyboard zones can overlap, and each has its own voice allocation, MIDI channel and micro arpeggiator.
You can solo, copy, paste, lock and disable voices individually, and load a single voice from any patch. Relative Edit moves a whole zone at once.
According to the maker, it retains all the depth of the original while being much easier for sound designers to approach.
Yes. The Oberheim Matrix-12 Black Friday deal takes 30% off GForce's synth plugin, bringing it to $83.99 until Nov 28, 2026. It is the full instrument, including the 570+ patch library.
GForce Software makes it. According to GForce, this is the sole authorized software version of the Matrix-12 and Xpander, built in partnership with Oberheim, with Marcus Ryle, who helped design the originals, advising the developers during the whole project.
It ships with over 570 patches. That is more than 380 new patches plus more than 190 original Matrix-12 and Xpander patches. A browser helps you search through them.
Drag a crosshair from any source and drop it on any knob. Each parameter has six bipolar slots with quantise. The Flow diagram and Mod Matrix grid then show every connection in the voice.
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