Sarth Calhoun

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Electrix Filter Factory

A full-size stereo analogue filter with MIDI, from the Electrix line. On my table now.

The Filter Factory is the full-size stereo analogue filter in the Electrix line, the performance boxes IVL Technologies made in Victoria, British Columbia, around 1999 to 2002, with MIDI control of the filter and its modulation.

I use three of the Electrix boxes now: the Filter Factory, and the Filter Queen and Mo-FX. I never used the Repeater, the looper in the line; two people I played with did, Brandt Passalacqua and Gregory Cage.

The lineThe Electrix performance line, from IVL Technologies in Victoria, British Columbia, around 1999 to 2002: the Repeater, a four-track loop sampler; the Filter Queen, a half-rack analogue filter; the Filter Factory, a full-size stereo analogue filter; the Warp Factory, a vocoder; the Mo-FX, a tempo-synced multi-effect; the EQ Killer, a three-band isolator. The line was discontinued in 2002.

All three nowadays, and I have a lot to say about them.

Sarth Calhoun, September 26, 2026, on the Filter Queen, the Filter Factory and the Mo-FX

On my table

The three filters sit with Kyma and the Continuum. What each one does in the chain is mine to write.

The creditSarth Calhoun uses the Electrix Filter Factory, with the Electrix Filter Queen and Mo-FX, on his table in 2026.

My thoughts

The line is as the Electrix units are documented; which of them are on my table is as I said on September 26, 2026.