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wetpenny wrote:MF102 shall be my next `fooger

It's going to be next on my list as well. I have a Novation X-station VA synth that didn't even have a ring mod feature built in, and I'd love to get this connected to the MF-101 I pick up this tuesday. After that It could be the MF-103, MF-105M, or the MF-107. I figured once I own a majority of the Foogers, and a CP-251, then it's time to get a SP synth to REALLY get a moog modular sound.

I have trouble justifying a fooger RM. The ring modulation function itself has no tweakable parameters, it just multiplies 2 signals. So what you are playing with is an LFO and audio osc. IMO it's a pretty basic LFO and oscillator - not tempco and few waveforms. I suspect that more sounds are at hand with more featured modules. I would like to see Moog release proper analog modules and let us patch them together. The 102 just seems a bit compromised by pretending to be a stomp box.

I like the 104 and 105 BTW, but the 102 design doesn't do it for me.

Has anyone tried outing the carrier osc to the audio input? I'll be sure to find out what happens myself on christmas, but if someone knows, please do tell!

LivePsy wrote:I have trouble justifying a fooger RM. The ring modulation function itself has no tweakable parameters, it just multiplies 2 signals. So what you are playing with is an LFO and audio osc. IMO it's a pretty basic LFO and oscillator - not tempco and few waveforms. I suspect that more sounds are at hand with more featured modules. I would like to see Moog release proper analog modules and let us patch them together. The 102 just seems a bit compromised by pretending to be a stomp box.

I like the 104 and 105 BTW, but the 102 design doesn't do it for me.

A ring modulator produces sum & difference frequencies between the audio input and a carrier oscillator & its one of the more useful of the 'foogers

I wasn't sure I was making the right choice when I bought mine but was blown away.

& I don't even use it as an extra Osc!

I don't use mine as an extra osc or a VCA either. I use mine as a stage booster for outer space travels.

Can't argue with that.

Some Moogerfoogers aren't going to be everybody's cup of tea, but there are 6 to choose from (and some of those are variations of the same 104/105), but the only way to really know is to try the one you're talking about.

machetemirage wrote:Has anyone tried outing the carrier osc to the audio input? I'll be sure to find out what happens myself on christmas, but if someone knows, please do tell!

put a delay between them