I love the Dipole, it’s my personal favorite filter. The range of possible tones is nuts, once you get a handle on its various ranges across the filter combinations and routings, and feel comfortable with where the knobs are supposed to be and how they all interact with each other, it’s really incredibly powerful for its size. Its also great on sources outside the eurorack, and percussion in particular. Used it recently on hihats for a 70’s acid glam style track and it blew me away. It created a very 3D physical, feeling, moving stereo image that brought the track to a different level for me.
When I first got it, I barely used it as a filter. It does 4 sines quite well, but pinging the filter inputs for the variety of resonating tones was really special. The kind of harmonically tunable percussion tones I personally always seem to gravitate to. The resonating dipole through 3 sisters yielded particularly interesting sounds, and also sounded fantastic as an input source for Rings blended and shaped with some noise. Quite a different range using series vs. parallel when it’s used as an oscillator, the series results in a unique and mild wave-shaping that I like a lot, gives another filter a little more to chew on.
