Today I tried the zen delay against Valhalla Delay / Little echoboy + Goodhertz LoHi filter with a midi controller.
The zen’s filter is great.
it reminds me the tests I made with the analog heat or the SP-16 master filter. it seems there is something about great analog filters that I can’t reproduce with my VSTs. LoHi seem ok, I also tried sound toys filterfreak, but none of them are tasty as the analogs I mentioned.
There is something deep and 3d, I wonder if this could be due to the fact that they are stereo, with tiny difference with the L/R filters specs bringing interest to the sound? I don’t know.
The decay knob behavior seem optimized for performance on the zen delay, the range does not feel the same when I tweak decay time of my VSTs.
feedback is different, much more controllable.
a lot of fun!
(EDIT) : actually with
- echoboy Jr set to clean
- Goodhertz LoHi filters properly tuned,
- adapting the sensitivity of my midi controller knobs.
I get really close to the Zen tone delay behavior, appart the fact that the feedback is more controlled on the ZD.
LoHi sounds great, I has 6-7ms of processing latency though