You can save one patch, the last one 
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I usually just take a photo of the panel to save the patch.
But recording of course is a must in case I get a sound I want to reuse.
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This synth is absolutely magical. Iām in total La La land. 
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Iām getting these incredible arcade sounds when I sweep through the delay spacing knob.
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Iāve had my Matriarch a little over a month now. So far Iāve only done two patches on it because I know once I remove them I wonāt get them back. But theyāre good enough that Iām building songs around them both. Iāve just been slow at making new music, and I donāt want to pull the patch apart and find that I needed a different bassline because the song was in the key of G after allā¦
That said the one time I have pulled the patch apart so far was cathartic and I got a few hours of fun starting from a new blank slate before I patched myself into a new corner. Based on the fact that Iāve run out of attenuverters in both patches so far, Iām going to say I would have either needed to add something to the GM (I was considering a behringer 2600) or I would have wanted to upgrade pretty quickly.
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I have a make noise maths, 4ms peg xoas device batumi, an intellijel metropolis and an intellijel quad amp that I plan on using to supplement the Matriarch. This gives me an extra sequencer, more attenuverters, looping envelopes, extra LFOs, and extra vcaās. Thatās enough to keep me busy for a lifetime. Iām still less than 24 hrs into this and I couldnāt be happier. Not to mention the Matriarch sits nicely with the OB-6. My setup is oozing analog goodness rn.
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The Matriarch is delivering more than I could ever dream of. Instantly my favorite synth!!!
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Be sure to hit us up with some Matriarch in the Current Sounds thread. Glad youāre loving your new Moog!
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For sure! Iām cooking up some beautiful generative jams. Iāll load something soon.
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How can I upload an audio file from my google drive?
Does anyone prefer the Grandmother over the Matriarch? I loved the GM, so of course (!) I moved up to the bigger model, but I find I play it less. There was something so immediate about the GM, and I could dial in the sound I wanted really fast.
But it is also much deeper than you might think based on specs alone.
I sold the GM last week, but now Iām thinking of selling the Matriarch and getting another GM while I still can, with the prices going crazy.
Anyone else feel the same about the GM?
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Jesusā¦ $1250 for a new Grandmother at Sweetwater?
Anyways, I have them both. They are fun together. If I had to sell one it would definitely be the Grandmother. I know there are people that find the Grandmother to be more immediate but I disagree, I find them to be very much the same as far as immediacy and the Matriarch just has all the extra features that make it better. And the stereo-ness of the Matriarch is also just magical.
I always had trouble getting rid of the Grandmother though because itās just so beautiful to look at and play and itās nice to be able to kinda get Bi-Timbrality from using them both. They sound basically identical but I can get a bass sound on one and something else on the other. But yeah, of the two I like the matriarch much more.
I should also note I donāt have any eurorack, itās just my Grandmother and Matriarch and I have a Hapax and A4 for sequencing cv.
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I never owned a GM but was thinking of pairing a GM with a Matriarch. I ended up with another Matriarch through a trade, now I have two Matriarchs. I absolutely love the Matriarch but I can definitely see the appeal of having a GM for the reasons you stated.
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Iāve just got my Matriarch back after I loaned it to a YouTuber to use for content, 6 months agoā¦ Iāve had a couple of days back with it and feel like the break did me great. I have a much better appreciation and understanding of it than I did. Itās just a joy to sit and make sounds.
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Iām thinking it might be a good idea to grab another GM at the old price, and decide later 
Or find somebody who might want to swap one for an OG-1.
I think, though, I probably wouldnāt want to give up on the polyphony, although I think I prefer the simpler filter setup of the Grandmother, and the separate high pass, which I used in a noise feedback loop for some nice fuzz-like distortion.
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Itās an absolute joy to use. The Matriarch just inspires me to get on it and explore. The sounds is so massive.
Iāve had the GM for over 3 years now, and I have been tempted to uograde to a matriarch for a while now so Iāve been playing one in a store a couple of times. Every time I doubt wether the upgrade would make me happy for a couple of reasons:
- Not sure why but thereās something about the size of the matriarch which seems off to me, both machines have this kind of a quirky oldschool look and feel which to me work on the GM but feel out of proportion on the Matriarch, like itās too big to look the way it does.
- The Matriarch can do all the things the GM can do, but somehow I feel like the limited amount of things the GM can do make it a perfect monosynth. The matriarch makes me feel like Iām controlling a magnificent but kind of intimidating science lab, while the GM feels more like a focussed tool.
Now take all of this with a grain of salt because itās probably just because Iām so used to the GM and donāt know the matriarch well enough, but I though Iād chime in with a different perspective from all the Matriarch fans here 
. I might just be completely converted to the Matriarch camp if I ever get to spend more time with it.
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This is how I feel about it. I really liked working around the āmissingā features on the GM. I always ended up with something interesting.
I also have trouble with the stereo filters and filter envelope. On the GM itās easy. On the Matriarch thereās a lot more power, but also way more moving parts to consider.
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This is kind of funny, because you put into word exactly why I love the Matriach. 
But that said, I still prefer my Minitaur for bass duties, and if I didnāt have that (and had the space), Iād be very tempted by the GM too, as it seems such a lovely and complete instrument.
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