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Re: MOTM-420 (MS-20) filter demo.

2004-01-29 by Mike Marsh

This is indeed a very nice demo!  I love the 420, and this demo shows 
it at its best, me thinks.  FOr a supposedly 'sharp' filter, it does 
have some nice bounce, eh?

Mike

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp <robnet@w...> wrote:
> Here's a nice demo of my new MOTM-420 filter. The Korg has 
> two of these in series (HP -> LP), but I currently only 
> have one (second one coming).
>  
> This demo has three parts:
> 1. The clean OSC sound (just a few secs).
> 2. The 420 in LP mode (around half of the demo).
> 3. The 420 in HP mode (rest of demo). 
>  
> During the demo I only tweak the filter, if I remember 
> correctly. I added a nice delay on the sound in my mixer. 
>  
> The ultimate kick of course is to use heavy resonance and 
> freq modulation on both the HP and LP filters, each at 
> different frequencies, or at the same frequency for a power 
> boost. 
>  
> In the second part of the demo, where you hear the 420 in HP 
> mode, you hear the high frequencies of the sound coming 
> through. To get rid of that part of the sound, you need 
> that second LP filter. I tried that with one of my other 
> 24dB LP filters, but they make the sound too creamy. You 
> really need the 12dB MS-20 sound to remove the high content 
> and still have that byte in the sound.
>  
> Of course the mp3 format kills a lot of the deep analog 
> content, but it's fun anyway.
>  
> http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/oe/420.mp3
>  
> Enjoy!
> Robert

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