The basis of the Funkulator is a Boss OC-2 -1 octaver, a Foxrox Octron octave up and a simple filter. The early units didn't have much control over the filter and the quack was quite wild.
The OC-2 -1 octave was an easy dial in as that's been covered a lot already on the C4, I set that up as voice 1 and assigned that volume to Control1.
The Octave Up is essentially a Foxrox Octron circuit. An Octave +1 with an envelope and dirt. I found that the best dirt for this was the Octave Fuzz. It's pretty close, but the settings are a lot milder than a Foxrox. I dialled this as Voice 2 and assigned this Control 2. The dirt is only assigned to Voice 2. So you can dial in either very easily. I would keep the Octave up quite low (around 80 on the knob) to keep it in the Funkulator sound. It's a very funky, mellow sound. The wet dry mix that sounds most like the meridian unit when it's got a little bit of dry bass in there, say only 90% wet.
The Filter is dialled in via the Expression pedal...I ran out of other knobs. This fades in the Q of a quaky Peak, 4 pole Low pass filter. Pedal down. The Q is at zero and can't hear it. The filter is set to affect both Voice 1 and 2.
It's easy to over dial in the Voice 2, which is supposed to be quite mild and smooth / funky. But you can dial in some pretty extremes here if you like, but they aren't found in the Meridian unit.
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