Moog Filtatron (Second look)

Ok, I’ve been messing around with the Moog Filtatron app again. My first post on the filtatron app was really more of a mess around to see what it can do on its own. This time I set out to take samples the VCO so that I can use it in some of my own music and productions.

Since my first post Moog have updated the app to include a few new features. The main feature was the ability to lock the VCO on the pad page so that it can be played like a keyboard (sort of).This helps a little and gives the app a lot more potential than just a sound processor but the keyboard on the pad is very small and hard to use (I’m using an iPhone 4).

I’ve also noticed a few other problems as well. The first Problem that I found was very annoying; you have to make sure that before locking the VCO that you have to get the pitch exactly on C. If you don’t do this the keyboard will play in the wrong key. It sounds obvious but I would have thought that moog would have put a keyboard in the app that was always in tune so that you don’t have to mess around with tuning it every time you want to use it.

Other problems I’ve found are: the audio from the VCO dropping out completely, a small amount of latency when using an external audio signal and various crashes. These can be fixed quite easily by restarting the app.

However despite the various minor flaws that the app has the Moog Filtatron is one of my favourites. The VCO has a nice rich sound to it and the VCF is really useful when recording external audio.

I’m hoping that Moog will look at some of these issues and sort them out in a future update. A full sized keyboard would be nice and the addition of a modular style sequencer would be an awesome addition.

Let’s get back to the samples.

I recorded a few samples from the VCO in the app and loaded them into the NNXT sampler in Propellerheads Reason 5. I then sequenced a few simple bass lines and added a small amount of compression to the sound.

I also decided to beef the sound up a little with a second oscilator from the Thor synth in Reason.

Below you will find all the samples available to download and an audio demo.

Filtatron Bass samples demo by synthersizer-sounds

The audio demo also contains drums from the Synthetic Bits Funkbox drum machine (another awesome app) and a bit of synth/percussion from Reason.

I’ve uploaded the samples for you to download. As always the samples are royalty free so you can use them for whatever project or track you like and not worry about copyright.

Download the samples Here (.RAR)

In the sample pack you will find:

· 12 individual note hits (Moog)

· 6 Clean Moog bass loops

· 6 Moog+ Thor Bass Loops

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