Ferroform

What it does

• Eleven liquids

  Each liquid has its own Mass and Viscosity, and the same two numbers move the cutoff and the orb. Ferro is light and snaps back. Ambrosia is heavy, and every move drags a long trail behind it, on the stage and in your ears. Picking a liquid loads its feel, and every one of its ten properties stays yours to change.

  

  Ferro

  Magnetic ladder. Snaps back; spikes stand up near the field.

  SPIKES stands resonant peaks a few semitones apart along the cutoff, as big and as sharp as you set them.

  Ferro, 1 of 11

• GRIP

  67 grooves, each in its own meter, play the cutoff, resonance and drive together. GRIP sets how hard a groove lands. At 0 it pushes through the liquid's weight and arrives smeared; at 100% it lands on the beat, and the line on the stage jumps with it. Automate GRIP and a groove comes in slowly.

• SPIN

  SPIN turns the orb in time with your DAW, from one turn every 4 bars to one every 1/16, either way round. Each rib presses the filter open as it passes the line, so the rhythm you hear is the ribs you see go by.

• Eight shapes

  Low pass, band pass, high pass and notch, plus four with a voice of their own. Vowel talks U–O–A–E–I as the cutoff climbs. Comb rings teeth on the cutoff's pitch. Phaser carves moving notches, and Partials rings on the harmonics above it.

• 43 presets

  Ferroform opens on Clear, which is Water with the filter wide open and nothing moving, so what you hear when it opens is your own track. The other 42 sit in genre folders, and BROWSE finds them by name, liquid, genre or instrument. At MIX 0, or bypassed, what comes out is your input, exactly, 28 samples later, and Ferroform tells your DAW so everything stays lined up.