The following 5 sound samples were made by GregAE, Brian Glock and Linda Lafferty (Moog's Inside Sales person). The clips were intended to give folks an idea of what the MoogerFooger FreqBox (MF-107) could do with synths.

For more information see Moog Music's MoogerFooger FreqBox web page.

For detailed explanations of the samples below see this MOOG Space web page.

FB-KorgMS10.mp3
FB-VoyagerLoopSH.mp3
FB-VoyagerNastyBass.mp3
FB-VoyagerRiffin1.mp3
FB-VoyagerRiffin2.mp3

Here is a video as well...

earsmack.com has nothing to do with these except having gained permission to host them...thanks Greg, Brian and Linda!

Having said all that...earsmack.com *does* have something to do with this next batch of sound samples. I received my FreqBox (#0028) on June 4, 2007 from Humbucker Music. Just some tweaking and playing but with some different instruments to give you an idea of some of the possibilities.

VoyagerEmersonSaw.mp3 starts with the dry Voyager signal playing the Emerson Saw patch. You will note when I kick in the FB (at bar 5) that the signal becomes warmer right off the bat. The next couple times through are two different FB "effected" riffs. The sample ends with the wet and then the dry again once the drums and NE2 Rhodes bass stop playing. There is also Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man delay on this sample.

VoyagerSpeakerDangerBass.mp3 is the Voyager Speaker Danger Bass patch retriggered by the Voyager LFO. It starts out with the FB engaged but the knobs effectively bypassing the unit. The mix is 0, the freq is 0 and the waveform is 0. It is in sync mode (which I think is the most musically useful setting.) I'm basically slowing turning the various knobs during this entire sample. This might give bass players a good idea how it might sound with a bass guitar. No other effects.

RX11DrumMachine.mp3 is a Yamaha RX11 drum machine playing a simple beat - dry at first and then FB'ed. Various tweaks along the way. No other effects. Sounds kinda filter-ish.

NE2Rhodes.mp3 has a little reverb on a Nord Electro 2 Rhodes sound. Otherwise, it starts dry and then is FB'ed in various ways.

VirusTIHalfliteBCArp.mp3 is the most beautiful Virus TI Formant Simple synthesis patch by Ben Crosland named HalfliteBC. It starts out with a simple arpeggiation and is fed into the FB. I slowly tweak the knobs, starting with the mix and then slowly (most of the time) the rest of them. I feel like when I start to get that pitchy gobbly gook I have failed. I'm not a big fan of the Env Amount control but as I've found it can be used in subtle ways to add motion to a sound and it's not so bad with FM cranked. This sample starts and ends with the Virus TI patch as is.

VirusTIFiboglidBCArp.mp3 is another Ben Crosland patch, this time using Formant Complex synthesis and played via the arppegiator in the TI. It starts as it is out of the TI (sans stereo, that is) and then gets FB'ed by (mostly) slowly turning knobs. just after the 1 minute mark you hear "that FB signature sound" that we all know from the original FB teaser sample. At the end of this sample I crank the mix to 10 which gets rid of most of the original signal and leaves the FB alone to fend for itself.

VirusTIAftrglowMSArp.mp3 is the (Marc Schlaile?) patch named AftrglowMS on a slow arp playing two low E's and an E minor chord above. This is then fed through the FB, which starts out on a sine wave with the VCO tuned to E. I then used the keyboard CV out on my VX-351 to control the pitch of the FB from the Voyager keyboard. The melody you hear is all FB. Near the end I hold a note on the FB (an E I think) and start messing with some knobs. The end is the Virus mixed out by setting the FB mix to 10 (or close to it.)

VoyagerNigelBassFBZVex.mp3 is the stock Voyager Nigel Bass patch played on its own, then through the Z.Vex Vexter Fuzz Factory, then through the FreqBox, then through both with a little bit of Frostwave Resonator filter tweaking at the very end since I couldn't help myself. (Voyager->Fuzz->Freq->Res)

freqbox_oscout_2_resonator.mp3 is a quick demo requested on the Moog forum. It is the osc CV out of the FB sent into the LPF freq input on the Frostwave Resonator. The sound played through the whole process is the Diet of Worms Voyager patch, slightly modified, played dry at first so you can hear the source. At first the FB is not even engaged, then later, when things get more distorted, is when I turned the bypass off on the FB. Basically this is just messing with the FB Freq and Waveform controls more than anything. Watch your ears there is at least one spark!

freqbox_envout_2_resonator.mp3 is similar setup as above but this time the env CV out is being sent to the Frostwave Resonator LPF freq input. Same Voyager patch (Diet of Worms more or less). This sample is more or less tweaking the env amount on the FB as well as some cutoff on the Resonator. Watch your ears there is at least one spark!

drum_voyager_freqbox_envout_2_resonator.mp3 is the Yamaha RX-11 drum machine playing a simple beat through the Voyager mixer in and then out to the FB and Frostwave in the same configuration as the envout sample above. Mainly I'm tweaking the filter cutoff on the Voyager and the Resonator as well as the env amount on the FB. Watch your ears there is at least one spark!

fb_bass.mp3 is a Fender Standard Jazz Bass (2007) being played through the FB with a little MoogerFooger Low Pass Filter at some point in the middle. I'm a noodler so alot of this is just playing notes and letting them ring or playing little simple riffs. Excuse any tuning discrepancies. This box can do alot more than what you hear here but this should give you some ideas of what it is capable of. The entire file was normalized after recording. Watch your ears - there are a few hot spots. Bass is played dry first so you can get your ears on.

rm_bass.mp3 is the same Fender Standard Jazz Bass (2007) being played through the Moogerfooger RingMod just to show some of the different sounds that can be achieved as opposed to the FB. In the middle I do engage the MF LPF as above but mostly this is just RingMod. Note that in the places where it sounds like delay - it isn't. It's just the RingMod LFO while the bass note rings out. The entire file was normalized after recording. Watch your ears - there are a few hot spots. Bass is played dry first so you can get your ears on.