MOTM

Jeff Laity writes:
>>Here is a VST/AU plug-in modeled after the Moog FFB. It doesn't have 48
bands, but the plug-in might be easier to use in your studios:<<

That site also has some other interesting plug-ins like a thru-zero flanger
and Mutron Bi-Phase, the latter of which I've seen people trying to get as
high as $1700 for on ebay.  However I just want to point out that the Moog
FFB is not a replacement for a 48 band FFB.  The purpose for the 48 bands is
to be able to have enough bands to get the proper frequencies to be able to
synthesize all kinds of vocal vowel sounds, or the complex resonances in
woodwind instruments for example, and also to prevent bleedthru from one
band to the next.  A 12 band can't do that kind of stuff.  When I tried to
do some male choir sounds using my Doepfer 15 Band FFB, I could only get
some really low baritone type sounds, and they sounded synthetic.  I ended
up having to pass that through a second FFB (my vocoder FFB), use some
additional filtering, and then use the Boss Voice Transposer to shift the
formants up.  The band freqs on the Doepfer were even worse for trying to do
female voices.

I'm also going to be adding a pseudo 95 band FFB where the 47 bands
inbetween the current 48 can be adjusted with a single control.  That will
narrow the bands to 1/12 octave spacing and get a string filter type comb
filter response similar to JH's or my Nord string filter, but with
adjustable amplitudes like my Nord string filter.  I'm also going to add an
LFO that can sweep the filter bank around, so it's kind of like a person can
custom design their own phaser.  Yes, this would be more useful and fun if
it worked in real-time in a hardware module, but it will still be useful and
easy to use as a post processing option as it currently works pretty much
the same way most effects in sound editing applications do.

-Elhardt