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.

PhiFilter module editor in GhostInTheMachine
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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.

  • 1
    FILTER CURVE

    Cutoff swept by LFO and envelope, live - one voice or a golden-ratio lattice of up to eight.

  • 2
    ENV METER

    Envelope follower drive.

  • 3
    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.

Type

The filter itself: LP, HP, BP, Notch, Comb, Vowel, Phaser, Formant or the resonant Ladder.

LPHPBPNotchCombVowelPhaserFormantLadder
Cutoff 20 to 20000 Hz (default 1000 Hz)

The corner frequency of the filter.

Resonance 0 to 100 % (default 20 %)

Emphasis at the cutoff - high values scream.

Drive 0 to 24 dB (default 0 dB)

Pushes the signal into the filter for analog-style growl.

Env Amount -100 to 100 % (default 0 %)

How much the input's loudness pushes the cutoff around (positive opens, negative closes).

LFO Rate 0.01 to 10 Hz (default 0.5 Hz)

Speed of the cutoff LFO when not synced.

LFO Depth 0 to 100 % (default 0 %)

How far the LFO sweeps the cutoff.

Sync

Locks the timing to your session tempo at the chosen note value instead of free-running.

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Mix 0 to 100 % (default 100 %)

Blend between the untouched signal and the processed one. 100% is fully wet.

Slope

Filter steepness: 12 or 24 dB per octave.

12 dB24 dB
LFO Shape

LFO waveform: Sine, Triangle, Saw or Square.

SineTriangleSawSquare
Stereo Phase 0 to 180 deg (default 0 deg)

Offsets the LFO between channels for stereo movement.

Stages 2 to 12 (default 4)

Number of stages for the Phaser type - more stages, deeper notches.

Env Attack 1 to 200 ms (default 5 ms)

How fast the envelope follower reacts to level rises.

Env Release 10 to 1000 ms (default 80 ms)

How fast the envelope follower relaxes.