It is up only, but personally that has never been a thing for me. My first EF was a Boss t-wah which did go either way, but guess what, I only ever set it to 'up'.
The dip switches control filter voicing and sensitivity range for active/passive.
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What is the most forgiving envelope filter?
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It is up only, but personally that has never been a thing for me. My first EF was a Boss t-wah which did go either way, but guess what, I only ever set it to 'up'.
The dip switches control filter voicing and sensitivity range for active/passive.
While you can get good sounds doing this, IME it still doesn't quite match the sound of natural filter drive. I just got a vintage EHX Doctor Q that has it, and of course the Musitronics Mu-Tron III is famous for it.
I liked the Robotalk 2 a lot, but not quite enough to keep it. Setting the two filters differently (especially the decays) yields sounds I've never heard from one box. You can also make it sound like a very cool envelope phaser.
Squinting at the tiny graphic it looks like the right one is to select up/down, meaning the left one is your on/off.
Oh man... If I had foot-control of several parameters on my envelope filter, I might never leave the house!
LOL, while I try to find a spot where I never have to move knobs even if I switch something like up/down. I'm stupid lazy about multifunction things: the less I have to do to change functions, the better.
Ha! See, I'm torn: On the one hand, I love that there are so many cool and critical sounds in my palette that I can get from a single envelope-controlled filter, and yet I hate that i need to bend down and move some controls around to get from one sound to the next. Okay, maybe I don't "hate" it...I think I'd rather push some buttons and turn some knobs than call up a preset; in some ways I prefer the purity of the manual approach, especially for creative musics. Perhaps the ideal is to have 4 or 5 identical envelope filters, each one set up with one of my favorite (but different) sounds!
