Filters and LFOs

[D.o.S.]

You know, you start with questions like this and you end up with a modular...

Which reminds me to recommend the Koma Kommander to people who have pedals with CV inputs (for the ones with expression inputs, check first the voltage range they accept without issues). Relatively cheap and cheerful way of controlling anything with CV. I think D.o.S. bought one because of me. I'm an influential man.

Cosigning both of these. Love my Kommander.

[D.o.S.]

But, Pope, what you really want is something like the Doepfer A-147-2, where you can mix Triangle, Sine, Sawtooth and Rectangle waveforms in ways pedals can only dream of.

[PeteeBee]

So tempted to do a little modular rack for this reason. Just so hard to commit when it won't be part of the live band board, just for personal wankery. I'm hoping the Happiness is the perfect happy medium, that I can filter to my hearts content but not have to spend well over a grand getting a little rack together. Happiness seems to do lots, but I'm new to the world of filters.

[Iommic Pope]

But, Pope, what you really want is something like the Doepfer A-147-2, where you can mix Triangle, Sine, Sawtooth and Rectangle waveforms in ways pedals can only dream of.

So tempted to do a little modular rack for this reason. Just so hard to commit when it won't be part of the live band board, just for personal wankery. I'm hoping the Happiness is the perfect happy medium, that I can filter to my hearts content but not have to spend well over a grand getting a little rack together. Happiness seems to do lots, but I'm new to the world of filters.

Yeah I've considered the Doepfer stuff and some small units for delays and granular stuffs and basically I feel like I'm staring down the modular barrel.
Don't think I haven't considered it. I'm treating it like drug use. It's not serious until you inject it/it's not in a pedal format....right?

Working through that list Chank. Gotta say this thing has a lot of appeal:

[rustywire]

Nails it:

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, I've been impressed with the Protostar demos I've heard.

That Nuvibe too, but it's so expensive for just a modern Univibe. I guess if that's really the sound you're looking for though.

[Iommic Pope]

I wasn't huge on the Nuvibe when it came out (mostly because it's pretty expensive for what it is, as Chank mentioned) but the whole graphic waveform thing is pretty cool.

I think more what I was driving at was how to get lopsided and strange wave shapes. I think DoS is onto something with the whole two out of sync thing.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, another way, as D.o.S. mentioned, is just using two separate modulation pedals. That's something I really like to do.

Two phasers. A phaser and a tremolo. Phaser & flanger. Etc. Etc. Whatever you wanna use.

[Invisible Man]

...or an MF-102. Use the LFO to change the F of the O.

[D Rock]

I use my MF-103 lfo to make the mf-101 a trem. It can do some nasty stuff that normal tremolos can't touch and with expression pedal into the lfo rate it is just something amazing. Especially with some delay after.

[D.o.S.]

I dunno if you're concerned with board real estate but two moogerfoogers and an EP pedal is going to take up a lot of it.

Can't deny that they sound good and look swanky, though.

[D Rock]

Yeah I'm not super concerned with that.

[Iommic Pope]

My wallet is concerned with Moog products but if that weren't an issue, space wouldn't even register as a concern.

[Tristan]

I had the Protostar for a few days but sent it back, in my opinion it didn't sound that great, too clean and clinical, no character.
It also doesn't have a lopsided waveform or anything, plus I found it very finnicky to dial in.
It seems that the attack and release times on the Protostar are linked on the attack knob but they're not dialed in right.
Plus all knobs have a huge range but most of the sounds you can get in those ranges are not that great or useful.

[odontophobia]

Definitely check out the happiness. I think it's something like what you're looking for with a good price and size.

The shape shift mountain doesn't have blend, but I love the sounds.

Happiness is on my short list of things I would probably get if this were something I was in high demand of. That's just not the case right now.