Dire Studio has introduced Mother Global Settings, a new settings editor for the Moog Grandmother and Matriarch synthesizers for iPad and Mac.
Dire Studio’s Agnes Lorincz says that “This app is the best thing that can happen to a Matriarch or Grandmother user who takes his workflow seriously.”
The Mother Global Settings is an intuitive editor for Moog’s Grandmother and Matriarch synthesizers. Sporting a 500-series rack inspired control-per-function interface, it’s designed to make settings easily accessible, with two clicks/taps at maximum.
Actual values are instantly visible on the screen. Features include octave buttons to easily set and check keyboard transposition, as well as a sequence selector override for the Matriarch, letting you quickly switch to any sequence — not just adjacent ones.
Other features include separate items for oscillator frequency ranges on the Matriarch, fine grained control over MIDI output and local control, extra glide toggle and arp/seq gate length settings managed by the app and a panic button, in case the synth goes rebel.
Direct USB connection offers the fastest operation and complete auto-detection, and 5-pin MIDI support lets you integrate the app into complex studio setups.
Pricing and Availability:
Mother Global Settings is available now for €49.99 / $49.99, through the end of Sept 2025 (normally €79.99 / $79.99).
80$ for a midi editor ?!
…and if you don’t have an iPad already, you’ll need another few hundred bucks on top of it since it’s not available for PC or Mac 😉
As the article notes, “Dire Studio has introduced Mother Global Settings, a new settings editor for the Moog Grandmother and Matriarch synthesizers for iPad and Mac.”
It’s not even a patch editor, it only controls the synth’s global settings. If you see that others are making full MIDI editors for 10 EUR or less, this price is really ‘high end’ for what it does.
Hey, Thank you for spreading the word about our app!
However Mother Global Settings app is NOT a patch editor. Most sound generation parameters are fully analog on these synths, so patch editing is not possible. Mother Global Settings is your reliable tool to control the so-called “global settings”, hidden parameters with digital read/write support you see on the app’s screen.
Agnes – we updated the article to say ‘setting editor’.
Thank you, guys 🙂
Free one: https://mark.reid.name/matriarch-editor/
why cant you bother to link things in your article. this site sucks because i cant just click forward. Why bold things and not hyper link it? Rss and bounce i guess.
Thanks for the feedback.
We linked to the source in the section at the end of the post that covers where this is available from. It’s pretty obvious, if you read the entire post, because it’s in the standard blue hyperlink style.