Horowitz and Wang (1979) have proposed a quantitative synthesis technique for plant modifying SISO feedback design. In essence, inner loops are designed to reduce ‘ ⃛feedback loop bandwidths and effect of sensor noise, at the cost of increase in plant internal signal levels.’ The major effort of this design goes into achieving ‘ ⃛desired trade-off between increased plant signal level and cost of feedback.’ In this paper it is shown that by a very simple use of available feedforward ‘degrees of freedom’, the above trade-off problem diminishes significantly for practically important classes of systems and the overall design simplifies considerably.