Solid State Logic Matrix 2 Owner's Manual page 3

Introduction
Matrix. Control your Creativity.
Welcome to Matrix. With the goal to bring the soul of analogue sound into the machinery of digital workflow, we designed
Matrix – a seamless way to work in both worlds simultaneously. With unparalleled creative control over your DAW and analogue
outboard, Matrix reconfigures your project studio around its most important element – you.
Matrix is a SuperAnalogue 16 channel, 40 line input mixing console with inbuilt signal router and multi-layer digital workstation
control. It's simply the most elegant way to be creative with your entire arsenal of analogue outboard and cutting-edge digital
equipment. Designed to be at the heart of your everyday creative process, Matrix is built to meticulous SSL hardware standards,
to withstand even the most intensive studio use. Fully equipped to partner your monitors, workstations and outboard gear,
Matrix lets you shape your project studio around the way you work.
The Matrix SuperAnalogue router manages the sends and returns of up to 16 outboard processor units, together with the
assignment of the console's channel strip insert points. Using the Insert Matrix in the Matrix Remote software, any combination
of your outboard gear can be rapidly inserted into any of your console channels, essentially giving you the ability to run your
outboard as 'analogue plug-ins' within your DAW. Furthermore, the Insert Matrix can be controlled directly from buttons on the
Matrix itself, allowing the insertion and removal of devices as well as rapid A/B-ing of analogue devices on a particular insert
point.
With HUI and MCU modes, the 17 motorised faders and channel controls provide complete hands-on control over your DAW
mixer, allowing you to enjoy mixing on a tactile, fully-featured control surface. Additionally, Matrix gives you access to transport
and navigation functions, plug-in and virtual instrument parameters, and essential DAW commands, allowing you to work quickly
and easily using just the console surface.
Alongside its integration of your analogue and digital equipment, Matrix is also a first-class SSL mixer, drawing on our 30 years
of innovative analogue console design. The essential functions of recording and mixing – routing, level measurement and
monitoring – are organised and arranged to make everything available at your fingertips to streamline the entire recording and
mixing process. Matrix analogue architecture provides 16 channels, featuring dual line inputs, balanced insert sends and returns
and a dedicated direct output. Channel level control utilises the same high resolution Digital Controlled Attenuator as fitted to
the AWS 924, AWS 948 and Duality large format consoles. In Matrix the channel DCAs can be remote controlled via MIDI,
enabling DAW tracks to provide full automation control of analogue levels. Dual stereo mix busses and four stereo returns with
full stereo mix bus routing bring the total available mix inputs to 40. Powerful monitoring is a central feature of Matrix with
independent Main and Mini monitor outputs, Artist Monitor output with independent EQ and source selection, and three external
monitor inputs with source summing.
In short, Matrix is the new standard in project studio integration.
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