PLAN B analog blog

It can get really mellow.  Warm?  Well, it's a bandpass and will give
you the usual BP sound - not sure that's warm as compared to a lowpass
- but I will say that without the TWIN mode switched in , with med to
low res and a wider bandwidth, it's very tame and quite BP-sounding. 
The the bandwidth fully open it reacts like a treble knob it's so subtle. 

Personally, I like subtle filtering.  Something that sounds natural
and not 'filtered'. I would not release a filter that didn't do this
and the 11 does. The combination of the Bandwidth and Resonance
controls give you two ways of varying the color.  Much more effective
than merely a res or merely a bandwdth control alone would afford.

If someone wanted a startup system and asked me which filter to get if
they could only swing one - if they did keyboard type work,  if they
were an instrumentalist - I would recommend the 12 only because it
gives you the options of Low, Band, High and Allpass.  If they were
doing more experimental stuff, or the free-er form New Age, anywhere
from Robert Rich, thorugh Steve Roach to Mort Subotnick, that sort of
vibe  where their timbres didn't need to adhere to those commonly
associated with synth parts in pop music or manifest the sound of
acoustic instruments, then I'd recommend the 11 alone.

Now, if someone already had a system and had other filters and wanted one of ours - I would recommend the 11 over the 12 hands down.

Does this make any sense?

When time allows I'll post some sound samples of the 11 behaving itself.

- P

 


--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "jalmari3"
<jari.jokinen@...> wrote:
>
> After listening those evil sounds, I wonder, how mellow this can go?
> 
> (Curiously, because of words "twin" and "dual", I was expecting a dual 
> band pass filter...)
> 
> Best regards
> Jari Jokinen
>