Fixed filter bank + no-input mixer + modulation ala Zlob F3DB?

I was hoping to find a patch that may approximate the Zlob F3DB. I really love what I hear when you combine the fixed filter bank with feedback from a no-input mixer setup and being able to modulate the frequency bands. There is so much potential diversity and variety in the sound. Does anyone know if a patch exists that has these features?

(would be extra bonus if it runs in Meta Module :))

Thanks!

Easy enough to patch it yourself, there are a couple of FFBs in the library and you can create feedback with a mixer module. Mind your ears though, especially if you use headphones! :joy:

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I think I’ll give it a shot! Thanks!

This should work with the meta module. The OUT GAIN knob is the feedback and the two mix outputs on the right are the odd and even outputs

f3db 1.vcvs (5.4 KB)

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Really interesting so far. Now I need to learn how to tame it! Seems to be close to the f3db from what I can tell (I don’t actually have that module)

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Nice! I made a patch using external feedback through a 4-track with the PEQ-14, and manually tuned each frequency band to a different note of C minor 9, so that when it started feeding back at certain level it played a strange, eerie sounding chord.

@gkillmaster do you have a link to any decent demos of that module? The ones I found sounded kinda bad.

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That sounds great! Can you share it?’

I got goldtorizo’s patch working in Meta Module. On top of it being super finicky and hard to control, the audio keeps shutting off, both in MM and VCV. I tried a lot of things like feeding different audio into it and using LFOs to modulate the frequency levels and it seems like anything I do breaks it. I probably just don’t know how to tweak it properly.

This is the video that inspired me to look into this:

I can dig out the patch, but I’m not sure it would work for anyone else. I was using a very specific setup with my old laptop and a 4-track portastudio. The outputs from my interface went to the first two track inputs, then the aux sends from the 4-track were routed back to the inputs on the interface to create the feedback loop. The benefit of that is you can ride the faders on the 4-track to get a sweet spot where it’s just the right level, and the preamps distort which gives it a nice analogue saturation.

I can try and convert the patch to run purely inside the box, but I think you have to be very careful with feedback in VCV. It’s easy for levels to run out of control, and some modules kick out a ‘nanV’ when they overload, which I’ve never fully understood but basically means they’re knackered snd you need to reload the patch or even delete and reload the module.