Moog Matriarch Editor Grants You Finer Control Over Parameters, Sequencer, Presets
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Dire Studio Mother Global Settings Editor · Source: Dire Studio
Moog Matriarch · Source: Moog
Moog Matriarch · Source: Moog
[18 September 2025] Mother Global Settings, a new editor from Dire Studio, lets Moog Matriarch and Grandmother owners take control over those hard-to-reach parameters.
Moog Matriarch
Moog Matriarch Editor
The Moog Matriarch and Grandmother are incredible analog synths with plenty of hands-on control over the most-used parameters. However, some functions are hidden away – and with no screen, it can be difficult to access them quickly, particularly in a live setting. Enter Mother Global Settings, a new third-party MacOS and iPad editor from Dire Studio.
Mother Global Settings gives you instant access to parameters like separate items for oscillator frequency ranges on the Matriarch, fine-grained control over MIDI output, and local control. You also get sequence selector override (Matriarch only), extra glide toggle, and arp/seq gate length settings, plus more. There’s also a preset librarian, keyboard shortcuts for a variety of settings, and both USB and DIN MIDI compatibility.
Mother Global Settings is available on the Apple App Store for €79.99, although it’s currently discounted to €49.99 until the end of this month.
Moog Matriarch and Grandmother are available at Thomann*.
- Dire Studio Mother Global Settings product page
Patchable 4-Note Paraphonic Analog Synthesizer From Heaven
[25 April 2019] Moog has released another synth, and you know what that means? Yes indeed, we get treated to another awesomely trippy introductory video that’ll blow your mind and remind you that Moog is so much more than sound and electronics. It’s a lifestyle, an aspirational state of being, an attitude and aesthetic that seems slightly otherworldly and just out of reach. I love it. Introducing the Matriarch.
Moog Matriarch
Anyway, it’s new Moog synth time – yay! At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a Grandmother, and it does share the same styling, colourful layout, and several of the same modules. It’s built in the same way, taking its technology from the vintage circuitry of classic Moog synthesizer modules. But the big difference is that the Matriach has four analog VCOs, which gives it four notes of paraphony. It’s not polyphonic as such because that would require each VCO to have its own envelope, VCA, filter, and signal path. Instead you get two of everything else, which makes it very versatile without actually being a polysynth.
Each oscillator has four waveforms to choose from: triangle, sawtooth, square, and pulse with pulse width modulation, hard sync, and FM inputs. A mixer module lets you introduce noise and an external input. There’s a dual analog ladder filter with parallel, stereo, and series modes available. One envelope is dedicated to the filter, the other to the dual VCA. There are two LFOs for modulation with six waveforms and then some useful utilities like a 2×4 mult and 3x bipolar attenuators.
There are 90 patch points interspersed amongst the modules, all of it Eurorack compatible to ensure easy integration with the popular modular system. It’s semi-modular, so it will play sound without any patching, which means it’s not intimidating to regular synth users. There’s an emphasis on stereo sound, which is why so many components are doubled up, and that culminates in the Stereo Delay module. Sadly, the spring reverb from the Grandmother isn’t here.
With the 49-note full-sized keyboard, it’s a much wider machine than the Grandmother, and somehow that gives the overall look a better balance when compared to the former’s chunkiness. And the magic is rounded off with a 256-step sequencer with up to four notes per step and an arpeggiator.
Some people never like the colourful styling of the Grandmother, but I thought it was strikingly beautiful. The Matriarch builds on that to what is instantly a classic synthesizer instrument. And listening to the demos, I’m transported to the kind of world I want to live in – one where I have one of these all to myself.
The Moog Matriarch is available now for $1,999.00.
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One response to “Moog Matriarch Editor Grants You Finer Control Over Parameters, Sequencer, Presets”
Whoa! That synth is amazing really. Those sounds!
And in fact, I like the vintage/psychodelic vibe of the panel colors too.
Tks for the news. Regards from Brazil.
~Arttie