Buttons

Note On/Off
Click this button to play a note, click it again to turn that note off. If you right-click this button you can adjust the Midi note value that's being played.

Chord
Click this button to play a short chord "stab". If you right-click this button you can change the Midi note values that are being played to something more suitable.

Initialize
Loads the default patch sound into the editor. TIP: You can replace the file default.m2p in the program startup directory with another patch file you prefer to use as the default patch. You need to restart the program to load the new default patch file.

Randomize
Clicking this button generates a (pseudo) random patch and a Note On message so you can hear the results immediately. Perhaps the most useful button and certainly the most fun, although results do vary wildly. If you cannot hear anything, just click again for another random set of parameters - sooner or later you'll come up with something worthwhile! Please note that this function will overwrite the contents of the Patch Editor and the Matrix-1000 edit buffer so save any previous work to disk if you want to keep it.

Compare
Everytime you open, import or download a patch a copy of the patch data is saved in a special buffer and this button is enabled. Click it if you want to compare your edits with the original patch, click again to return to the edited version. On both occasions a Note On message will be transmitted.

Get Patch
Click this button to download the currently selected patch from the Matrix-1000 edit buffer into the Patch Editor. Please note that this function will overwrite the contents of the Patch Editor so save any previous work to disk if you want to keep it.

Send Patch
Click this button to send the contents of the Patch Editor to the Matrix-1000. You will be prompted for the user memory location (000-199) where you want to store the patch data. Note that this button can only be used if there is a patch loaded into the editor.

Open Patch
Reads a previously saved patch file into the Patch Editor. Click this button to select and open a Matrix 2001 patch file from any drive or location in your system.

Save Patch
Saves the contents of the Patch Editor to a diskfile using Matrix 2001's own file format.
Note that this button will only be enabled if there is a patch loaded into the editor.

Import Patch
Reads a SysEx patch file into the Patch Editor. Enables the exchange of patch data between different sequencing and utility programs and even platforms by means of the generic SysEx file format.

Export Patch
Saves the contents of the Patch Editor to a diskfile using the generic SysEx file format that can be read by other programs. Note that this button will only be enabled if there is a patch loaded into the editor.

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