What kind of candy do you like?
While the correct answer is obviously "all of them", here's a quick table comparing the sonic characteristics of our modules. Excluded from here are Tannhäuser Gates and Vivisect.
BARON II | VIPER II | COMA II | GODEATER | OROBAS I/II | BONESAW | |
Effect Type | Distortion | Distortion/Filter | Delay | Distortion | Distortion | Filter |
Character | Fuzz | Overdrive; 6dB SVF | Digital Delay | Bass Distortion | Tube Saturation | 6dB State-Variable with oscillation |
Weirdness | 5/5 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 1/5 |
Gain | 5/5 | 4/5 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
Self Oscillation | Yes | No (almost though!) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Expands with | - | - | - | - | - | Vivisect |
Use it for | Chirps, shrieks, wild wave shaping | Guitar amp drive emulation | Dirty dubby delay | "DER BASS MUSS FICKEN" | Fattening up digital sounds | That FM function will kill your other filters |
Massive sub-bass AND bass cuts! | Taming or boosting transients | Soundtrack for the post-apocalyptic humanoid lifeform | Deep sub-bass distortion unlike any other pedal/ module out there | Idiosyncratic VCAs with their own signature slopes | Combine with VIVISECT for pole-mixing funsies | |
Ragged AM Radio sounds | Flexible post-distortion EQ | Warbles and pitch shifts | Extensive CV control for animating simple sines and loops into bass hell | Straight-up tube distortion! | Very vocal, charactered resonant sweeps | |
Fun Extras | Weird Bass Oscillator | Pingable distorted kicks and toms | The effects loop is as limited as your imagination is | Crossfade between clean and dirty | Use in QUAD mode as a dual-mono 4-input mixer | Use as an oscillator, go from saw to sine to reverse saw using the FM Phase |
Ping with a gate for weird percussion! | Ultra-harsh sounds using FM input | Best single-module nightmare generator EVER | 2 Free VCAs - one clean, one dirty | Tried audio-rate modulation with vacuum tubes yet? | Combine with Godeater for MASSIVE kicks! | |
Confusing your cat | Annoying your cat | Scaring your cat | Comforting your cat | Your cat is sitting on the warm tubes | You don't have a cat? Adopt one |