I have gradually built up my equipment over the last 8 months or so (Voyager, VX 351 and CP 251). I’m wondering where to go next in the Moogerfooger range perhaps in terms of sonic expansion and tonal interest or pragmatic development. I’d welcome any wisdom that might be out there.
Many thanks ans best wishes
Barrie
It all depends on what you’re working with and what you want to do. Is that all the gear you have? If so, the Freq Box probably doesn’t have that much to offer you.
FWIW I have both the phaser and the ring modulator, and they’re both excellent.
The most expensive was the first for me. The 104 delay. I thrive for delays in my sound. I’ve got a ring mod and am not so sold on it. The Phaser will be next.
I don’t know why, but the delay hasn’t ever really appealed to me. If I was going to spend a few hundred on a delay, I’d go for an Eventide Timefactor.
Much depends on the style of music that you like and whether you play with others, play other instruments also, play mostly in studio/home studio, etc.
For me, it was a 105M first, then a Freq, then a LowPass 101 but I think I’m a bit unconventional in that approach. Like EricK, I’m a bass player too and since I have two Moogs (an LP and an Old School), I’ve found great utility in pumping a sound source through the 105M and playing either a bassline or a lead along with/to it.
The Freq is, as you likely have read, most useful with a filter and while you can certainly use the Voyager’s filter, it’s also useful to have a 2nd filter (the 101). But if I only had a Voyager, I’m not sure that the 101 would bring anything great to the table.
-Mike W. from NJ
I have discovered that the 101, when connected thru the mixer out/filter in jack, adds a subtle fullness to the low-end on my Voyager. Why it does, I don’t know. But it really makes a difference, at least to my ears. It can also be used as a filter for the osc out of the Freq Box, or any other external oscillator. I also noticed that the MF-101 sounds just a little bit better than the one on the Voyager when used with the resonance turned up. Again, it’s a subtle difference, but noticeable.
I am totally crazy about the Midi-Murf. The sonic palette is incredibly wide, the pattern editor easy to use and you can shape your own sounds : a sequencer of filter frequencies. It worked well, incredibly well in fact with everything I plugged in, synths, basses, guitars, mandolin. Etherwave too.
If you are a musician, I think you will appreciate it’s qualities as tremolo, vibrato and vox humana overtones. If you are more like a techie and also own a standard note sequencer and plug it into the Murf (via tone generator), be cautious of the ‘infinite loop’. Easy to get into but very hard to escape 
Check out this thread and good luck.
http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7254
Thank you everyone for really useful and thoughtful comments… I’m thinking about the midi-murf as a consequence. BW Barrie 
What’s the infinite loop?
The infinite loop??? I’ll explain.. hold on, a bit busy atm… allright, now let’s put this CV in the Voyager’s filter and this one in the CP 251… the infinite loop… hummumm needs a bit of Portamento and some vintage feel.. that’s better… hey let’s bring it the rawness of the MG-1… ooohhhhh that’s nice… yes, honey, i’ll be there in a few, just a thing here to do and maybe this here… what was I saying?? ohhh the infinite loop… let me get back to you on that, i have one full CV not being used and I want to fit it in and I just think if I couple the pitch of mod bus2 to the S&H waveform of the LFO, then, after that, I’ll be able to resume my life… well maybe… I can’t guarantee.
Oh! Okay, but I thought that was called the,
- “ThisIsTrulyExcellentIHaven’tHadThisMuchFunInALongTimeIWonderWhatWouldHappenIfIDidThis?”
part!
