I have received my new foogers this week (mf-101, mf-102,mf-103, mf-104z, mf105, mf-107) I have racked them in two groups of three. Somebody knows which is the best order to set up the foogers to transmit the audio signal? I’m usin them mainly with my RME, my Digital Piano or my Nord Rack 2x).
For CV I’ll chane connections as needed, but for aidio, I’d like to have a fixed connection setup.
Some help will be appreciated.
As you may have already figured out, there’s basically no right or wrong way to configure a Moogerfooger setup. It depends on the sound you’re going after.
Here’s an example of a trippy space noise configuration done by my buddy Brian. Among the many connections, it places a BMuRF in the loop of the '104:
I agree, experimentation is the key. Depending on the length of your patch cords, placement of each fooger is not that important but its worth thinking about. You can also get a TRS patchbay and then you can always reconfigure and its going to make it easier to connect. You can also just get a long enough set of patch cords and you will be fine with whatever configuration you have.
I agree also that experimentation is the key. There is no standard configuration. What is important is to understand what each CV input and output and what each knob does. Then, you can start to have some sense of direction when you get an idea and want to see if you can make your foogers help you to get a certain sound. Some sounds just come from what if questions. I have been amazed at the sounds I get when I ask, hmm, I wonder what would happen if… And then I make it happen and amazing sounds come out.
I have the ring mod, freqbox, phaser, and low-pass filter daisy chained (in that order) through the mixer out/filter in on my Voyager. One of the things that I’ve learned is to place the effects that generate harmonics before the the effects that best use those harmonics.
Placing the ring mod and freqbox before the phaser, gives the phaser more harmonics to work with, and placing the phaser before the low-pass filter gives the filter all of the harmonics going into the phaser, as well as the resulting additional harmonics being created by the phaser.
This works very well. I have my CP 251 triangle LFO into S&H to Audio IN of the 102, Audio OUT going into the 103, Audio OUT to Audio IN of my LP. also some misc. patches between the three 'Foogers, but that’s my basic setup. Eventually, I’ll add immensely to this.