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The low pass filter allows everything below a certain frequency to pass
through, cutting out most of the higher frequency sound. This means that
high pitched notes might sound very quiet if heard at all! The high pass filter
works in the opposite way. The band pass filter restricts the frequency
range to near the filter frequency. The volume and sound of a note passing
through a band pass filter depends a great deal on how far the pitch of the
note is away from the filter frequency. The notch filter is opposite to the
band pass.
The filter resonance determines how effective the filter will be. With a low
resonance the filter effects might not be very marked, however with a high
resonance the effect will be more noticeable.
The filter frequency graph gives an indication of the effect of the particular
filter. The black area of the graph shows which frequencies will pass
through unaffected. Move the graph using
Q
and
W
in the normal way.
The filter frequency can be modulated with the filter DRE. Press
D
to pop it
up. Note that it will appear automatically when you press
F
if the pitch/pulse
width DRE is already displayed. Sweeping the filter frequency can produce
amazing sounds such as the ‘wahwah’ effect loved by many electric guitar-
ists. This is achieved by sweeping the frequency of the band pass filter up
and down. You can alter the rate using the step time device. ‘Flanging’ is
achieved by slowly changing the filter frequency of a high or low pass filter.
All these effects are based upon triangle, saw or pulse waveforms. Howev-
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Resonance
Filter
frequency
these frequencies pass
through