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Dear Dennis,
I have to go on record and say that I love the
Electrix MoFX.
Just like the Electrix Repeater (which is the only unit on earth that allows one to be able to
make any sampled sound a chromatic instrument with sample and tempo stretching)
it does a couple of things better than almost anything out there.
The effects in the MoFX are fairly mundane, but the use of the drum machine styled buttons
and the ability to tempo drive the effects using a MIDI interface, sets it apart from almost anything else I can think of.
The fact that the large drum machine styled 'play' button can either have a positive or a negative function (in other words it can turn the effect on when you use it momentarily or turn the effect off depending on how you set it)
is just wonderful.
Ways, I use it are putting small amounts of distortion on it, narrowing the bandwidth, and then suddenly bringing in the
full unadulterated sound at precise rhythmic moments...............fantastic for real time production ideas in things like
hip hop and drum and bass.
........setting up square wave tremelos at very high and rhythmically specific rates (32nd notes, etc.) so that you can
make things 'trill' at appropriate rhythmical places...............then being able to change the rates with which the square wave tremelos
work.
All of these things are fantastic and really useful for resampling and relooping.
One of my favorite set ups now, uses one DL4 before my effects pedals to loop a pure instrument sound
then pass it through whatever effects (including the MoFX and the Filter Factory which works similarly)
then putting a second DL4 on the back side of that to be able to loop the 'effected sounds'
then running all of it into my little VOX and ROLAND battery powered guitar and bass amps,
micing it all and then running it through the Looperlative LP-1 as a final way of slicing, dicing and arrangeing
the piece of music.
I would be bereft if I lost the unit.
My only regret about the Electrix stuff is that it takes up two rack spaces each and
it makes it unsuitable for me to tour with it.
I always take an extra 6 space rack with me to my gigs with the Electrix, Repeater, Filter Factory and MoFX
all hooked up but it's too much shit to take to a festival
so most people in the looping community have never seen me use this setup.
It's a bitchen one and I can see why a lot of people have gone the Plogue Bidule route with laptops to get this kind
of flexibility, musically.
Yeah, I vote THUMBS UP on all that Electrix Gear.
I was set up to have a product endorsement if they had ever rereleased and I was bummed BIG TIME when they tanked.
LONG LIVE ELECTRIX!!!!