It’s here–the newest addition to the Moogerfooger line of analog effects. The MF-107 FreqBox will blow you away! it’s unlike anything else out there. The FreqBox does not actually modify the audio input signal. Inside the FreqBox is a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) which is modulated by the sound source input—an Audio Modulated VCO! The result is an amazing array of effects that were once only possible with a complex modular synth setup—everything from fuzz-like distortion to what product development engineer Steve Dunnington calls “cataclysmic timbral morphing” A true “freak box”!
Here are some specs:
Accepts instrument level and line level inputs
Frequency and waveform controls in the VCO section
VCO can be frequency modulated by the audio signal
Envelope follower and mix controls for even greater sonic enhancement
Housed in the super-durable, classic Moogerfooger enclosure
Part of me wants to believe this sooooo badly, but, a larger part of me just can’t believe it… Check out this link. They’re claiming its $339, and I guess they have it in stock already, but, how’s that possible? I e-maied them and am waiting on a reply to see what the deal is with the stock, and etc…
i’ll be buying a couple for sure though! can’t wait til the nittygritty on the back panel comes out. I wanna know if it’s controllable via seq/cv-midi controllers etc!
It wasnt supposed to be let out yet. I posted pics of it early yesterday and the admin. took it down. They thought I was one of their dealers and sent me a message asking me why I did it. I thought it was already released though because I saw it on two other forums. I love the sounds from that thing and have been waiting to hear it since I went to the factory and was told there would be a new fooger for namm.
i think in the grand scheme of things it has done nothing but create massive hype for the product. sure this was a NAMM exclusive, but eh, not enough is leaked to really do much other than make a thousand-odd people pine for one
I can get very similiar results to what I think the freqbox is doing using my .com modular synth. I patch some signal in to the oscillator 1v/ octave pitch control and mix that with the signal, and get some pretty freaky stuff
I’m wondering the same thing. I have a Sherman Filter Bank, which has FM and AM inputs. Plus, buy the end of the year I will also have a .com modular(I’ve only just made my 3rd payment on the entry system)
But still, that dark and warm tone thats automatic with Moog. We shall see
multiples to split what I need ..
the 8 channel mixer to mix the 2 signals [dont’ get the 4 channel mixer.. the 8 channel ROCKSs] the square wave is probably my favorite wave to modulate…
one oscillator to be “freq-boxed” apart, sometimes one to feed into it. [or someting like ele guitar or violin]
an envelope generator is nice to add defination…
the instrument interface is nice to get an envelope/ gate/ trigger from an existing instrument, and bring it to the correct voltage.
Of corse i run it through my 101 then to spice it up.
I have thought about programming some midi sequences [into the midi to CV generator] to play on top of, both in unison and counterpoint to intersect the violin lead line… but a nice pitch to CV convertor could be nice for this..
sometimes i also will modulate the VCOs that I have with various signals, which also get that nice ringy-mody sound… they are just… different than pitch modulation of a LFO.
can you explain better how you are doing that? I’d love to try it!
I have Q118 (instrument interface) & a bunch of Q106’s. Do I need anything else?
Do you just patch the Q118 Amplified signal to the 1v/oct input and also the mixer?
Well, here try this for starters.. this is simple, but headed in I think the FREQBOX direction. [won’t knwo exactly till I test one out]
if you have 2 oscillators.. have both be in audio range at a sine wave to start, and have the second one’s sine wave feed into the linear or the exponantial frequency input [preferably 1v/oct input] this is where you normally patch the pitch CV from the keyboard. it should sound ring moddy-ish. now, turn the input oscillator’s freq nob, and listen … start toying around.. A fun spot is where the modulating wave exits the audio range on the low end…
now take that, and feed other stuff in, other waveforms or instruments..
sample and hold or a sequencer modulating the 1st, modulating the 2nd..
Some people are speculating elsewhere on this forum that there might be more to this new MF107 than just straightforward Frequency Modulation (which can be accomplished on any VCO–or any synth with a CV input-- by patching an amplified audio frequency signal to the VCOs CV input). It could be that 107 has some additional circuit that will let it’s VCO sync up to the input signal–or provide the input signal with some new/unusual way of modulating the VCO. Seems like this would be pretty likely, considering ‘normal’ FM is so similar to Ring Modulation (and theres already a RM Mooger).
