Module Reference · Motion & Modulation
FLAGSHIPA new kind of filter — The Golden-Ratio Series
PhiFilter
PhiFilter starts as a complete filter - nine types (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, comb, vowel, phaser, formant and a resonant ladder), drive, a selectable 12 or 24 dB slope and up to twelve phaser stages - driven by two modulators at once: a tempo-syncable LFO with four shapes and stereo phase offset, and an envelope follower whose attack and release let the input's own dynamics play the cutoff. On its own that is auto-wah, synced sweeps, vowel talk and slow phaser drift.
Then it opens a second dimension. Raise Phi Amount and the single filter blooms into a lattice of up to eight voices whose cutoffs are seeded from the golden ratio - the one spacing that keeps peaks from ever stacking on a shared resonance. Phi Spread fans the voices across the spectrum on the golden angle, Lattice Nodes steps through Fibonacci counts (1, 3, 5, 8), topologies from Golden Aperture to Mid/Side and geometries from Golden Spiral to Quasicrystal re-voice how the constellation sits, and a Phi Lattice motion source sweeps the whole field as one. At Phi Amount 0 the lattice is bypassed and the module is bit-exact identical to a conventional moving filter.
Why it hits different
The GhostWare take.
- A golden-ratio filter lattice - up to eight voices that never pile onto one resonance.
- LFO and envelope modulation at once, now sweeping a whole phi constellation instead of a single cutoff.
- Bit-exact a classic filter at Phi Amount 0 - the golden-ratio engine is entirely opt-in.
In the shot
Reading the panel.
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1
FILTER CURVE
Cutoff swept by LFO and envelope, live - one voice or a golden-ratio lattice of up to eight.
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2
ENV METER
Envelope follower drive.
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MOTION DECK
Type, cutoff, resonance, LFO shape and stages - plus Phi Amount, Spread and the lattice controls.
Control Showcase
Every control, explained.
15 controls, named exactly as they appear in the plugin.
The filter itself: LP, HP, BP, Notch, Comb, Vowel, Phaser, Formant or the resonant Ladder.
The corner frequency of the filter.
Emphasis at the cutoff - high values scream.
Pushes the signal into the filter for analog-style growl.
How much the input's loudness pushes the cutoff around (positive opens, negative closes).
Speed of the cutoff LFO when not synced.
How far the LFO sweeps the cutoff.
Locks the timing to your session tempo at the chosen note value instead of free-running.
Blend between the untouched signal and the processed one. 100% is fully wet.
Filter steepness: 12 or 24 dB per octave.
LFO waveform: Sine, Triangle, Saw or Square.
Offsets the LFO between channels for stereo movement.
Number of stages for the Phaser type - more stages, deeper notches.
How fast the envelope follower reacts to level rises.
How fast the envelope follower relaxes.