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Author: Logo on September 06 2007

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--> So I just received a used Sherman Filterbank yesterday and it's consumed all of my free time. I've been wanting one for ages and it's pretty much everything I've imagined and then some. It's raw, belligerent, fantastic, and inspiring.

There's a serious lack of decent quality demos of it around the web, so put these in your pipe. I'm just getting to grips with it and testing it out, so pardon the ridiculousness. The first two are pure sines run through it, and the third is the obligatory Daft Punk filter test. Not really all encompassing, but it gives you an idea. Enjoy

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Here is a more normal demo like colin was asking for, complete with narration. The first few are with no res and the rest are labeled as the res increases (at the end). Each sweep is 16 bars and is MIDI controlled. I'm pretty sure I had it set correctly at each point, but this is totally unscientific. I tried to find a happy medium in between overdriving it and having too low of a signal.

As you will notice it's pretty damn quirky, with weird noises/distortion present throughout (mostly at the top/bottom of the range). If you want a smooth filter it's probably not for you, but it seems to excel at extreme dirtification, squealing like a pig, and staccato madness.

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Edit: I think I actually screwed up some of the settings on the last demo (on the 2 pole highpass takes), but whateva... you get the idea.

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09/07/07 + n9

It's not the output that is noisy, it is the insides. If you open the filter the whole way up it sounds like there is an alien civilization living inside. Herman himself said that was why he made it so that you can't bypass the envelope trigger entirely -- because then you could hear the internal noise.

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09/07/07 + RogerRoger

My apologies, I didn't intend to misquote you. I also noticed in this demo that really low LP cutoff settings almost sound like bit reduction. I wasn't expecting that at all. Between the Sherman and a Moog CP-251, you almost have a complete modular, just add a tone source.

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09/07/07 + Logo

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. With it with open every trigger has some sort of audible artifact (a lot of it comes from the lfo too). It doesn't bother me too much, but I wouldn't call it desirable (why Herman sees it as an asset is beyond me, seems like a bit of a cop out to me).

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09/07/07 + flies

oakley pcbs: link i'm not sure they've got what you're looking for, tho.

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09/07/07 + adcBicycle

I checked with oakley and they're no longer offering the Filtrex

But maybe there's a nice combo of modulars that wouldn't be super pricey? To bad they don't include the PCB and front panel .

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