QUACK!!!

[halfasemitone]

Has anyone here heard of the Univox Funky Filter?

I recently heard one the other day and like the sound of the envelope filter. It quacked really well on a Rhodes and can only imagine what it will sound like on a Clav.

I've tried a Mod Tone Funk Filter.... no quite as good
Q Tron.... too subtle, no quack

Does anyone know of another Envelope Filter that quacks really well like a Univox Funky Filter?

Does anyone know what makes it quack so well?

[Jazz Noise]

Really surprised by the Q-Tron comment as the Mutron Wah used on Stevie Wonder's higher ground is it's protogen. Any sounds I've heard from them have been thoroughly quacky!

There's 2 factors - first off is the envelope itself. The attack and the decay really shape the filter sound from a QUACK to a wahhhh to a wahummm and all the shades in between!

The second is the resonance, the "peakier" the filter is, the more focused you get on the given frequency within the filter sweep. Wide, high q sweeps done very quickly are very, err, quacky with other settings have their own characteristics. Most simple env. filters dont really let you modify this much, but it's a feedback resistor and you can get to it if you're not afraid of getting your hands messy!

But you need to set your gain right for all this to work - these are generaly "guitar" units and are optomised for a 1v PK input, keyboards spit out a far higher output - so the envelope wont really track you properly. Reduce the keyboard volume to 1/4, vary it up to 1/2 and see what results you get.