Congratulations on your purchase of the Oberheim Matrix-1000 Analog Sound Module. The Matrix-1000 is a 6-volce polyphonic instrument that is fast and easy to use. It Is specifically designed to allow the musician to play the best 1000 sounds of the famous Oberheim Matrix-6. Musicians at all levels will love the Matrix-1000's simplicity of operation -just select the Bank & Patch Number and play. But its simplicity is really quite misleading. The heart of the Matrix-1000 — its one thousand outstanding sound Patches — is a compilation of the finest Matrix sounds collected over the past three years from synthesizer enthusiasts around the world. The Matrix-1000 provides you with the largest on-board library of rich, warm analog synthesizer sounds of any Instrument.The first 200 patches can be customized via MIDI from a Matrix-6 keyboard, a Matrix-6R rack mount synthesizer, or a computer equipped with a MIDI Interlace and Matrix-6/6R editing or librarian software. The Matrix-1000 introduces Group Mode, a new feature which allows up to 6 Matrix-1000s to be played together as a single instrument. The Matrix-1000 has a complete MIDI implementation, including Patch loading/Patch saving via MIDI System Exclusive. And all of this Is packaged in a 1-rack space unit, an ideal addition to any instrument system.