I don’t have 101 or 107, but I’ve thought of a nice trick. They both have the Envelope Follower, so you can use it in a cool way with your Moog synth or any soft/hardware synth like this:
For example you want to modulate some parameter like LFO speed on another Moogerfooger with an envelope of your choice. But if you plug in the synth into MF-101/107 bypassed and get the Env Follower Out to modulate the LFO speed, the shape of the envelope will be determined by the envelope of the sound that your synth makes.
If you want another envelope shape with different times (and maybe more complex then ADSR) you can do it like this, which brings us to the trick.
You plug your synth MIDI out to another synth and set the desired envelope on another synth (it can be any soft/hard synth with envelopes more complex then ADSR or standard ones). You plug the other synth to the 101/107 (not the first synth) and then use the envelope follower out to controll the LFO speed for example. You can’t hear the other synth, it just produces the envelope.
I hope I made it clear and that’s not some obvious trick.
I like to use the MF-101 env follower cv out to modulate the Phatty’s filter input quite a bit, basically I’ll take a aux send off my mixer, send that audio to the mf-101 audio in, adjust the drive to taste, then the ENV OUT cv goes to my CP-251 attenuator, then out to the Phatty’s filter input. using that and the LFO onboard for filter modulation creates some SERIOUSLY juicey shiznit.
This is neither here nor there but you don’t have to use these effects in bypass mode. I often just turn the mix to dry and the effects are still bypassed. What is interesting about this is that if you are using either the 101 or 107 in this way, with the envelope followers, you can make it a more complicated patch by using an expression pedal or CV to bring up the mix of the effect if so desired.
For example, you might be using the envelope follower of the Freqbox to an effect, but lets say, send a S&H via cp251 to the osc freq and then use an expression pedal to increase the mix amount will add a second “voice” that you can fade in and out. I often do this to get more synth sounds on a single track since im using linear DAW style recording units.
That’s one of my favorite tricks with a guitar - I use the Ring Mod as a tremolo (slow LFO setting) and then send the Envelope Out signal from my 107 to control the LFO Rate on the Ring Mod.
So when you first hit the strings, or when you play louder, the tremolo effect goes faster, and as the notes decay, the speed slows down.
Same routine works between the 107 and the 105M using Env out patched to RATE Expression input, 'cept in this case it steps the automation (bing.. bong… boong… bung… bing…). It’s quite pleasing.
