Oh my god, I FINALLY understand the difference between para and polyphonic! Thank you! It's not until you actually demonstrated it (which no one ever does) that it clicked.
A hero of comparison videos you are, sir. Your inner monologue serves us well in these trying times of parapolyphonic intrigue and fascination. - Sincerely, Dude #28
You are hilarious!! Haha. Subscribed. Yes, the Matriarch is definitely a deep synth and changing global settings on it definitely requires a good manual read. However, this thing is so flexible and sounds so beautiful. I think the Matriarch and a Prophet (any Sequential Prophet) will make an excellent combo. Another difference between true polyphonic and paraphonic is headroom and gainstaging. True polyphonic synths have more headroom with each oscillator having a lower overall output level at maximum volume (at the mixer) or thinner sound in comparison to a mono synth. Paraphonic synths, on the other hand, are built like monosynths at heart (in fact most of them are, just with a paraphonic mode as an added feature) and have thicker/beefier oscillators and a stronger maximum output volume at the mixer stage. With certain synths, such as Moogs (in your case, the Matriarch), you can crank up the oscillators at the mixer to the point of saturation. All paraphonic mode on a mono synth does is allow you to use each oscillator as a separate voice, thus allowing you to play a basic chord (provided you properly tuned each of your oscillators for such an application).
Your internal dialogue was pretty hilarious... hahaha... this is only the second video I've seen of yours and I don't even own any of these synths, but I just subbed. Great personality :) thanks for doing this 🍽 cheers
That was both hilarious and funny. I’ve been considering the matriarch but I mistakenly assumed thought you could play it … regular. Like a piano. Major ignorance on my part. Thank you!
For whatever little it's worth (and is is very little) I think these synths could be viewed as complimentary to one another as opposed to an either/or proposition. I bought a P6 to replace my Matriarch after feeling like I couldn't really get a good sound out of the Matriarch. In, what was intended to be, the brief crossover, I played them together and fell in love. The richness of the Moog filter set against the brightness of the Prophet is kind of amazing...expensive, yes, but hard to turn back from once you've tried it. Anyway, great video. The inner dialog bit was hilarious.
Have you looked into Polychaining the P6 with the Matriarch? Wondering if that's even possible and how difficult it may be. Thanks for your humorous take on things.
Would like more of your thoughts comparing these two synths. The other video you reference compares Prophet 6 with Rev 2. Would like these two above and beyond the paraphony/polyphony.
This right here is why Moog ended up with InMusic. Not that Sequential is thriving as an independent company but still.. Sequential delivers a lot more for the buck and Focusrite does well by their customers.
I really wish the Matriarch had a dedicated switch for round robin. I'm always turning it on and off and I have to look at the manual every time. Also thanks for explaining the distortion you get when playing multiple notes at a time. Very interesting.
Apples and Oranges to the extreme. Comparing Para and Poly without going into a normalized path and a semi-modular is missing the difference between these synths.
@@jbleger4611 Didn't say they were. Must all comparisons consist of equally measurable variables? This isn't a science experiment, it's two (very different) synthesizers.
@@JamesonNathanJones you could grab a Toyota Corolla from 2001 and compare it to a 2023 Tesla too. It wouldn't be much of a tale of 2 automobiles if you only focused on their air conditioning units.
you can go another level deeper and think about how a popular thing is watching people react to songs you may or may not like. RU-vid song reaction videos, yeah thats a thing and I just don't understand. What i can gather is its people that need validation for liking songs from strangers that don't care about them. In my mind, thats pretty sad. are people seeing youtubers as friends? real life friends? because if not, why give a fuck what others think about what you like?
RU-vid is functioning in this domain, as social media does. Lots of alienated, sentient, life forms, in the modern life-world are lonely. Alienated. Very lonely. As Peter Gabriel once said: “I need contact. I will talk to anyone.” There you have it.
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