What are your thoughts on this pedal? Is it a worthy investment?
I love my 108M! I have just started exploring the stereo output features, and on headphones, it makes whatever you plug into it sound amazing! I think the biggest issue with it, and I think most everyone on this forum would agree, is that drastic omission of LFO CV Output… Why would moog make a true MIDI synced LFO and not include a CV output for it? Gahhh!!
It is pricey though… but what from moog isnt?
The 108M is a great pedal. The variable waveform LFO enables effects that no other pedals can do. The lack of LFO CV output is a bummer but not a dealbreaker for this Mooger IMHO. Nothing sounds as good as those BBD chips.
I also have a Roger Mayer VoodooVibe and a FoxRox Paradox and while those are really solid and great sounding pedals the 108M puts them to shame for sheer versatility. The 108M does everything from classic subtle flanging and chorus all the way to self-oscillating feedback that can mangle your signal beyond recognition, especially using the random waveform.
Yes I was VERY dissapointed that there wasn’t an LFO output. I naturally assumed there would be. There HAS to be a way to mod it.
So you want CV out on the LFO to control other effects? Is that correct? I am a guitarist so these added controls are a little foreign to me.
I was a bit let down there wasnt LFO out, but to be fair like most of the other ones do, so its not even a big deal.
The mf108 is really sweet. Def worth having than most of them.
If the LFO was an analog, un-syncable to MIDI LFO, then I wouldnt have minded there being no LFO output… But seeing how its midi syncable, it seems to me that its a HUGE omission on Moog’s part… It would have increased the value, in my opinion, of the 108. You could use that to replace the LFO on the ring mod, which would then make it in sync to my DAW, or to the cutoff of the 101, or anything…
I’m sure there is a way to mod the unit, but every time i pop open the back, I realize that its way beyond my skill level and I put the thing back together.
Well, i bought one. We’ll see. I’m pretty excited about it. Can anyone point me to a video or two that really demonstrates what you can do with Midi on this and/or the MuRf. I have tried to find them, but I haven’t found a really good one yet
It should be here Thursday. Super excited to play with it!
Dude its one of the sweetest effects you could get.
Here are two really shitty tracks I did with just the mf108 and a tr808
http://soundcloud.com/phesago/mf108-tr808
http://soundcloud.com/phesago/lastnight-jam
They suck, but I only keep them posted to explain how effing awesome the mf108(edit accidentally said 808) is.
The biggy for me with no LFO out is not so much the midi sync, but access to all those LFO shapes - no other bit of my kit has ramps, and I love the ramp lfo into the filter cut off: it was my staple when I was carrying a SH-5 to gigs, but that’s long gone.
What I use it for as well as chorus/flange stuff is a reverb effect, adding depth, an whats really cool, is twisting the time know every noe and then, so you get a bit of rawkus sound till the feedback catches up. I don’t even like chorus/flange as a rule, especially on guitar, but it is a great little box.
Check out the Moot Booxle video of sounds he made using a keyboard to midi in playing the self oscilating feedback - that stuff is great too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbLKRxklLQY
I bought one today, cant wait for it to arrive!
Stellar sound with the pros of MIDI editing. A great combination to my SP which I can also automate via MIDI and record any patch twice for true stereo(instead of using the out pf phase second output). Very handy alternate overdrive tone as well when I use it with the mix to 0% for that MF overdrive. I use it like there is no tomorrow.
Peace out.
Just got mine a half hour ago. Running with my Adamas/AC-60 combo is sounds pretty thick. I really like it. I wish I had an all tube acoustic amp. I’ll run in it through my Randall RM100 later on. That has 12AX7s prees and Yellow Jackets in the power tube section. It sounds pretty sweet.
Mine arrived last night 
It’s nice, but god it is noisy!
I am trying to clock this thing via ableton .,. any tips welcome!
Hmm I think that mine only get noisy with pretty extreme settings. You could put a noise gate after it or even a low tech volume pedal.
Mine is noisy all the time, I have to have it bypassed when I are not using it or I have a constant low noise hiss coming through my monitors.
I have it patched into my mackie’s 1202 VLZ3 send & returns.
Mine is noisy but I found that if I put the mf-103 before the mf-108m it really reduces the noise. The order of chaining makes a difference.
I think my noise might a grounding issue? if the 108 is being patched in from my voyagers cv etc and I overload the circuit it is really noisy, I have found a hard reset of my mixer and 108 to help sometimes.
I find there is a fine line between having a nice wet signal and clipping the circuitry, even with low input green flashing LED (not red LED) I get a audible noise flange sound swirling away with no audio being input and with conservative value settings + with low out put.
I’ve had mine for the last six weeks. It’s a great pedal. What others call noisy I consider the character of the pedal. I’m primarily a guitarist and yes I did intend to make a string of classic guitar effects using moogerfoogers. I guess my point here is that guitarist should not expect to have a classic line of pedal effects with the moogerfooger line. If they want that then perhaps they should stick with boss, or something similar. My interest is to venture into uncharted sonic places and pedals such as the MF-108M allow that. You can dial in a classic chorus/flanger sound. You can control the time of the flanger with a control pedal. But the tweakable range of those classic sounds are small compared with the strange to chaotic you can get with the MF-108M.
Where I think the power of the 108M is in creating drones. Kind of like taking a white canvas and laying down a pigment before painting the theme; I hope that make sense. At first I was not sure how to handle the random LFO. But I’ve come to like that feature and find it valuable in doing some of the stuff I’m into. Over all, choosing LFO wave patterns is invaluable.
I do have a question and I hope I didn’t bore any readers away from this part. What are you using to drive the midi sync? I have three sources; computer running sonar, an Alesis SR-16, and a Roland VS-2480. Why I ask this is if I’m using the sine LFO I do get a click per measure that I think is the “start pattern” midi note. I don’t expect that that should happen with a smooth sine wave. What are your thoughts.
Oh and I can’t wait to see what the new delay MF will be like.