Back in 2001, this rackmount filter module became a secret weapon for artists like the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, bringing genuine analog warmth to their MPC workflows and beyond.
Its dual-channel design shines with a stereo section offering 2- and 4-pole lowpass, highpass, bandpass, or notch filters, plus a mono channel that ramps up to 8-pole slopes for steeper cuts—using all four internal 2-pole analog filters in combo. You'll find dedicated knobs for cutoff, resonance, input levels, and pan on each channel, alongside an ADSR envelope generator triggerable by MIDI notes or a button, and a versatile LFO with triangle, square, sawtooth, or random waves that syncs to MIDI clock, tap tempo, or beat divisions like 16ths to whole notes. Effects round it out with gritty distortion, a stereo analog phaser featuring speed and depth controls, and a 2-band EQ for low/high tweaks, all MIDI-controllable via CC for automation. Both stereo (1/4" and RCA phono) and mono (1/4") inputs handle anything from turntables to synths, routing to stereo 1/4" and RCA outputs, with a compact 19-inch rack/desktop footprint at 483 x 136 x 88 mm and just 2.8 kg.
Vintage enthusiasts still chase it for that irreplaceable analog bite and MPC synergy, though some note the mono envelope lacks audio triggering—making it a hands-on joy for deliberate sweeps rather than automatic sidechaining.
