Moog Music Forum

I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that the LFO is half of most of these pedals, but I can never find a musical use for it.

I have the Midi Murf, Delay, and Phaser, and whenever I employ the LFO it just ruins what vibe I have going. It's partly coz it's never in key, but it's also just like...ugly...esp on the delay.

But maybe I am missing something. Keen to hear from others.

Well the simple answer is: if you prefer without LFO, disengage it and enjoy!

Personnally, the LFO on the Ring Modulation is something that makes it too repetitive and preditable to me. That being said, the RM is not my go-to effect, I don't have often a real need of this.
On the delay on the other hand, I often put a slow, slight sine modulation on the delay time to create a sort of tapey chorus effect. I love this one.

I utilize the LFO on the MF-103 to other foogers 'often' as its slow speed is fun with many different use cases. The MF-105m is kinda good on it's own and w/o LFO as a fixed filter bank-ish sound. If you listen carefully (or read the manual to very easily understand) the MF-105m's LFO only shifts the frequencies up/down a tiny amount ...which contributes to it sounding ehh 'not what I expected'' IMO. Externally applied LFO's also only shift the frequencies minimally as well (IIRC). If you get a MF-101, it really fun to crank the resonance and use the audio output as an LFO (though it doesn't go 'very slow' as one would hope). Perhaps you can source a white noise generator and a low-pass filter as white noise and filtered white noise make for some awesome CV material (my recommendations: Marsona 1200a and Korg Monotron; or any similar varieties of these machines).