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Electrix MoFX : Is it worth it?
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!!!!