Arturia Matrix-12 V - Analog Synthesizer Virtual Instrument (VST/AU/AAX)

Matrix-12 V resurrects the first programmable analog synthesizer in software form, enhancing its revered combination of modular flexibility, analog richness, and 15-mode filter with enormous new levels of creative freedom.

Features:

• Two oscillators, each offering triangle, sawtooth and variable-width pulse wave with PWM.
• Oscillator 2 also functions as a white noise generator.
• Oscillator 1 or the Filter can be frequency modulated.
• Single filter with 15 modes: 4 Low Pass, 3 High Pass, 2 Band Pass modes, Notch and Phase Shift plus four additional combo filter modes.
• Ultra-powerful modulation matrix with 27 sources and 47 destinations.
• Sources include 5 envelopes, 5 LFOs, 4 Ramp, 3 Track generators, Velocity, Pressure, Keyboard follow, and more.
• Two insert effect slots with six studio-grade effects available.
• 12 voices of polyphony like the original instrument
• Multitimbral
• Works in Standalone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX.

Enter the Matrix
Extreme patching met 12 dual-oscillator voices in one of the most prestigious keyboard synths of the ’80s. With 27 modulation sources, 47 destinations, 15 filter modes, and five envelopes, it combined the flexibility of a modular synth with the polyphony and programmability demanded by artists like Toto, Vangelis, Prince, and Herbie Hancock. How do you improve upon such an instrument? Matrix-12 V balances absolute authenticity with the flexibility modern music makers need - and then some.

You Can’t Sample This
ARTURIA's True Analog Emulation® technology models the behavior of every circuit and how they interact. Matrix 12-V is one of its biggest achievements yet.

Your Everything Synth
Whether you make power-pop, electronica, RnB, hip-hop, or a fusion of styles yet to have a name, Matrix-12 V delivers head-turning sounds with remarkable ease.

An Ace in Your Hand
The Matrix could sound like virtually every other analog polysynth of the ’80s — and some digital synths — but no other synth could sound like the Matrix.

Own a Legend
A working Matrix-12 fetches five figures if you can find one. Matrix-12 V offers perfect accuracy at a tiny fraction of the cost, and with modern stability.

Analog in a digital world
With digital synths like the DX7 and affordable sample-based keyboards just over the horizon, Tom Oberheim and company set out to show the world what a no-holds-barred analog machine could really do.

Echoing Oberheim’s earlier success with the SEM, the project began with a sound expansion module. This was 1984’s Xpander, which had six voices and the same signal path as the Matrix-12, which would arrive just a year later.

MIDI created a market for modules that could augment the capabilities that synth players already owned without adding the bulk of another black-and-white keyboard to their rigs. The Xpander was designed by engineers Marcus Ryle (who would later invent the Alesis® ADAT) and Michael Doidic, and became an instant hit.

Agent of analog
Matrix-12 V puts your hands on more of the original’s parameters at once. It’s a playground for quick tweaks during live performance and exacting sound design in the studio.

Because it applied digital control to analog tone generation, the Matrix-12 had three displays and many pages of functions but only six knobs. We thought a sound engine this sensational deserved a lot more.

Matrix Reloaded
More modulation, built-in FX, and a powerful Multi mode make you the architect of amazing sounds.

ARTURIA's team dove deep into what makes the Matrix-12 special, put every parameter of it within easy reach, and then freed its analog mind with some reality-bending upgrades:

Master Your Mods
Tweak a superhero’s eye view of every modulation routing in Matrix-12 V at once. With up to 40, you’ll never run out of them.

Zone Out
Splits or layers? How about six independent keyboard zones with adjustable range, MIDI channel, and voice allocation?

Massive Multis
Assign Matrix-12 V’s voices to keyboard zones and transpose, detune, and pan them here. Each voice can play a different patch if you want!

Standalone Vibrato
As if five LFOs weren’t enough, an independent vibrato lets you modulate its speed and amount from the mod wheel, a pedal, or aftertouch.

Dual FX
Choose from studio-grade classics including phaser, flanger, chorus, analog delay, stereo ping-pong delay, and lush reverb.

Maximum Control
Achieve electron microscope level control over Matrix 12-V’s behavior with the settings located on Page 2.