MOTM

On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 01:28 AM, elhardt@... wrote:

> mbedtom@... writes:
>
>>> 1) Vocal-Tract Filter: (Was reminded of this with the recent post of 
>>> the
> vocal-formants reference.)  The gist of this idea would have an input
> connected to a set of VC filters comprising a responding filter bank.  
> There
> would be a single knob (and CV input) to morph the filter bank response
> between the various vocal formants. 1-2 on the knob might be "uuu", 3-4 
> might
> be "aahh", 5-6 would be "oooh", and so on.<<
>
> Some of these things get to be a little impractical for the analog 
> world and
> limited sales potential.  But if you're willing to go digital, Emu's 
> Z-plane
> filter does pretty much what you mention.  It allows morphing between
> multi-frequency bands.  They used to sell a rackmount unit that did 
> it.  Now
> you probably need to buy one of their samplers to get that function.  
> My E4K
> has it.
>
I have the UltraProteus and it is the only digital synth I've ever 
liked. It is
basically a Morpheus with extra samples. The Z plane filters are really
great and bizarre. You can pick these up on eBay for under $200:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=883752164

They are definitely worth it at that price.

Of course they sound even better when processed by MOTM filters.


TH