Pls!It’s currently chaotic.
Good idea. But further: how about editors and sysex tools for iOS (and Android)? I really hate getting out a windows machine or Mac for music making. Especially for basic utilities like this.
I got all excited with this update and thought they’d announced it! Shame it was just a poxy firmware updater.
MOOG! Global editor! Take my money!
Yes I feel your pain. It needs something…the amount of time wasted not getting a predicted response…only to find, painstakingly, a setting had been changed accidentally. Just an overview would be great.
Good point! If Moog made an iOS global editor & sysex utility, I would pay real money for it. Not sure if anyone else feels that way, but if Moog could get revenue from such utilities, maybe they could afford to hire another software/firmware developer to really sort things out. The current firmware cycle is painful.
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Can give this web-based editor a try:
https://mark.reid.name/matriarch-editor/index.html
But… agreed that a little app, either desktop or iOS, would be very helpful.
That web editor may not look like much but it’s does the job well:
- Changes made there instantly go to your Matriarch.
- It pulls all of your Matriarch’s current settings when it loads.
Depending your your OS and/or browser you may need to do a little extra setup to get MIDI support to/from the browser but if you keep your Matriarch in a studio hooked up to a computer then there’s no reason to wait on Moog to make something with this available.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Moog never got around to making one of their own as I can’t think of much they could add beyond their branding, and back when they put out the Sysex spec in the 1.2.0 release without an editor I kind of figured that was a punt for someone else to do it…
It probably depends on how the Matriarch is made and the flexibility of its firmware. I remember a couple years back when Moog released an editor for the Minitaur and a new firmware version that significantly expanded the instruments capabilities. It kinda depends on how much more is hiding inside it that can be unleashed. A basic editor like the ones above some users have made might not increase its value might but being able to use it as part of a DAW plugin or to be able to edit and backup sequences would be a game changer.
Sounds good, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work with iOS (and likely not with macOS either) since Apple has deemed the MIDI browser plug-in to be a security risk.
The Mother Global Settings app for Mac and iPad is the answer to your request. It works with Matriarch and Grandmother as well.
https://www.direstudio.com/mother-global-settings/
The Dire Studio app is on holiday sale. $59.99USD (was $49.99 USD when released). It looks like a nice app but I can’t justify the cost for myself. The button press and key switching works for me, since I don’t use it much. On the other hand, it would be nice to just see what the global settings are without having to change them to know what they are. Maybe I’ll get this someday.
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