Hi valdaisky.
I think it's good to provide Arturia informations about functionality.
First let me say, that i do think Matrix V should work like the original hardware Matrix on this. Beside that i can see that extra options can be beneficial.
Sometimes the originals may not have a functionality suited to new production methods.
Also i actually don't know if the current behavior is intended. It can be a bug.
The current behavior actually does look like a bug. Also because there are stange behaviors when setting levels and using both the VCAs levels and the VCAs mods levels.
BTW: KEYBD as mod does not give the same output and using an envelope. Using VELOCITY and be sure to reach full amount as modulator instead of KEYBD give higher output, when using this modulator methods as workarounds.
Also, some strange things: for example we set KEYB in destination VCA2 - ok, now it works. But audible level of vca2 knob not works incrementally during increasing now - it works like selector (on\off), what the reason ? (while in v1 the same config does incremental sounding change for that knob).
Yes that's true, except my VCA 2 does'nt work as a on/off either.
Depending on your VCA settings, then you can:
1. Use the VCA 1 level controls instead of VCA 2 or
2. Use the modulator amount you have assigned to VCA 2 or
3. Both.
But what become worse - in v1 we had ready for use bodies library, we only needed increase vca2 level. Now need re-configure it every time after load each preset.
Yes i understand this. But as i said, then there are reasons to not have it like this. I vote for being able to do both, if that's an option.
Did the original hardware synth make sound, when you changed presets, or did one need to trigger first? In both manuals it does sound like it did as they say "when no mods are added", but it's not completely clear to me. It could be that some kind of internal connection made it needed to trigger notes before there was sound, as that would be a way to control sound too. As you say, then you use a DAW to trigger notes to control the sound.
Anyway -
i think there is a bug, and it could be interesting to know what Arturia have to say about the VCA behavior.