A compact yet fully featured Eurorack filter // Pony VCF by Befaco

Here's the new PONY VCF from Befaco. It's a compact yet fully featured Eurorack filter that's 6HP with good hands on control and modulation. It's a Dave Rossum based filter design (the SSI FATKEYS chip), 3 channel mixer (with feedback) and VCA. An impressive trio of functions for many uses in Eurorack ... as usual I will explore lots of this in the video. Timing index to skip around is below!
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*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*
00:00 Hello & patch previews
01:07 Pony VCF feature run down
02:27 Raw sound demo - filter sweeps and feedback
03:39 Dancing filters with mixed modulation - Moog inspired!
05:11 Audiorate overtones for a DNB ditty
07:16 A simple Pony voice
08:47 A mixer/processor for beats
- high end excitement, VCA compressor & feedback saturation
11:07 Beautiful feedback loops
13:18 LPPGs - low pass pony gates
15:23 Pony kick drums
16:31 Two voice paraphonic articulation - fun times!
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[@effiksmusic]

I find this a very well designed and useful compact VCF. Fits perfectly in my small case and hopefully sounds good too. HARD SYNC.

[@DivKid]

looked good on your Instagram with the effiksmusik knob swap treatment.

[@tihinter]

HARD SYNC! Great to see new VCFs with character. I love what I heard here. This one, the Nekyia, the Neptune and the Super Synthesis SVFs have my interest. I'd love to see a DivKid video about the Nekyia!

[@DivKid]

I haven't tried the Nekyia yet but would like to. Thanks!

[@robertmcmurry5489]

Awesome stuff love the last patch and tension talk through, HARD SYNC

[@DivKid]

thanks

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Yay, Molten Motion Meter ftw - it's all about me :D

[@DivKid]

haha! Well it's very handy as it's 3U sibling.

[@christophervincent77]

Thanks for another great review! Not sure when/if I'll actually pick this one up but I added it to my wish list :)

[@DivKid]

thanks! I hope it gave some patch ideas either way.

[@TMeier]

That's a hard sync! Another great video Ben, thank you!

[@DivKid]

appreciate it

[@boydw1]

HARD SYNC That's a great little filter. And have to agree with Thomas - that last patch was dope AF!

[@DivKid]

thanks. Yeah that's a fun one, running two oscillators into one mono style signal path.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

We get some nice instability 😂

[@DivKid]

:)

[@my4trackmachine]

HARD SYNC
.... also this looks incredible for the compactness and sounds good. I may need to pick this one up.

[@thomas854]

Holy shit, that last patch sounds sooo good

[@DivKid]

thank you, appreciate that.

[@gladlawson61]

Sounds pretty good.

[@DivKid]

ta

[@Somkarp]

I like it! Thank you sir.

[@DivKid]

thank you

[@unsoundmethodology]

It seems like a really solidly designed utility VCF, between the mixer, the feedback path, and the bonus VCA. I've got things I should probably add to my system before I get another filter, but this is awfully tempting.

[@DivKid]

I aren't sure I'd say utility filter, in my head that sort of means utilitarian, does the job of filter but maybe without that much character ... that's just what conjured up in my mind, I get the reference to utility with all it offers though.
Pushing into the soft clipper between the mixer and the filter for saturation sounds great, touch of feedback and it really barks! Or neighs!

[@unsoundmethodology]

@@DivKid I suppose I was thinking on those lines, but with a touch of "utility infielder", where it's very capable at several different tasks. You're certainly right that the soft clipper adds a ton of character!

[@DivKid]

"infielder" that's a new word to me, had to look that up. Good reference!

[@alexgrunde6682]

HARD SYNC.
Nothing revolutionary here, but it’s a nice sounding filter and the built-in mixer is a big plus. Would’ve been nice if it could do HPF and BPF but that might not have worked in such a compact module.

[@DivKid]

Yeah I agree, a filter is a filter to some extent, such a crucial synthesis tool though and made better with the mixer and VCA. I'm glad options exist for different approaches to it all.

[@randydarklight]

13:20 where does the bell sound come from? 😮

[@DivKid]

the patch just before that's about feedback loops? Or the one about LPPGs as I call it?
The feedback loops one is rings, the LPPGs one is a complex mix of TZFM and folding from Pony VCOs and the Octave VCO. Wanted to give the Pony VCF something harsher/richer to work with in that example.

[@Pinko-Diamond]

HARD SYNC me daddy Div

[@DivKid]

haha

[@synkrotron]

HARD SYNC

[@DivKid]

thanks! :)

[@ssmith2019]

SCHWEEET !

[@DivKid]

cheers

[@krisamadhi]

Want

[@DivKid]

got want swaps needs ... was that a thing?

[@michaelgerdau5418]

Hard Sync

[@DivKid]

thanks Michael

[@tychohallsen]

HARD SYNC

[@DivKid]

thank you

[@apeirogonmusic]

Hard Sync

[@DivKid]

thanks for joining us

[@mmmodular1878]

HARD SYNC

[@DivKid]

thanks!