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20 FX Topics: #1 The Filter
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| Stephen Wiley |
Before reading any further, please, no arguing. If you do not agree with what is written below, please just leave the thread. I don't want this to turn into a "that isn't an audio effect" argument. The purpose of this is to discuss audio effects and quasi audio effects and the ultimate goal is for everybody to share their knowledge, tricks, tips, opinions, etc. so we can all learn. Thank you in advance :)
I'll be creating a topic every couple of days regarding one specific audio effect. The idea is for everybody to post their tips, tricks, thoughts, etc. on that specific audio effect. Feel free to comment about how an audio effect might work in unison with another, but try to focus on the topic at hand. Not all topics will specifically be an audio effect (Layering for instance) but they will be something most of us view as an audio effect. I really think we can pool some ideas together and share some useful knowledge. Feel free to post youtube videos, links to articles, certain plug ins, whatever helps you get your ideas across. Here are the effects we will cover, starting with Filtering (resonance included)
1. The Filter (Resonance, Drive included)
2. Panning (Ping Pong to be included with delay)
3. Beat Repeat / Vocal Chopping / Stutter
4. Chorus
5. Compression & Limiters/Maximizers
6. Tubes
7. EQ / DeEsse
8. Delay (including Ping Pong)
9. Flanger
10. Gate
11. Phaser
12. Timestretching & Pitch shifting
13. Resonation
14. Reverb
15. Saturation
16. Distortion (bit crushing, etc.)
17. Layering
18. Quantization, Automation, Envelope FX
19. Analog Emulation
20. Mastering |
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| Stephen Wiley |
| The Filter: Any of various electric, electronic, acoustic, or optical devices used to reject signals, vibrations, or radiation of certain frequencies while passing others. Think sieve: pass what you want, reject all else. For audio use the most common electronic filter is a bandpass filter, characterized by three parameters: center frequency, amplitude (or magnitude), and bandwidth. Bandpass filters form the heart of audio graphic equalizers and parametric equalizers. |
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| Stephen Wiley |
I'll start with the obvious.....
Automating the filter or the resonance (or both) over time can help to produce a very nice building/progressing/swelling sound. It's probably the most popular effect used in this respect. |
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| Darkarbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stephen Wiley
I'll start with the obvious.....
Automating the filter or the resonance (or both) over time can help to produce a very nice building/progressing/swelling sound. It's probably the most popular effect used in this respect. |
This was still the first thread on the page, feel free to use the edit button. |
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| sixofour.604 |
Fruity Love Filter. I must say that there is no need for anything else. It comes with iirc 9 fitler types. An amp with a wave editor for it. Each filter has many modes, like 1x 2x 3x etc etc. And best of all, you can send the sound through 8 stages. [as if you have 8 instances of the filer] Its pretty nice. The volume and panning of every filter can be changed aswell. And if you use flstudio, the best part is, every single parameter is automatable.
You can also use an parametric EQ as a filter and come up with your own filter types. Which, in the end, is really the ultimate.
Mess around with a low pass filter on the sound and you can emulate vowel sounds with an lfo, in pretty much any sound. By applying an lfo to the cutoff in very short quick jumps.
I didn't say anything people didn't already know, but yeah. |
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| Acton |
| Using an LFO on the cut off frequency can add some groove to an otherwise static filter effect. Automating the LFO frequency/rate can yield some great effects. |
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| Pjotr G |
you can also modulate the filter (cutoff) with something a little more dynamic than an LFO. For instance, with a level follower on another signal (i.e. fruity peak controller).
So you can have the amplitude of a beat controlling the cutoff value of a synth's filter. You can still make it progress with either an amount control, or with the volume control of the modulator sound. Fun times. |
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| cybernetica |
First of all, I really love the idea of making a production related series of threads.
| quote: | Originally posted by sixofour.604
Fruity Love Filter. I must say that there is no need for anything else. [...] |
I agree to an extent. Love Philter can really do a lot, basically all you ever want to do with a filter. And it has the sequence generator which is pretty dope... the envelopes and LFOs however are very unintuitive... and I must say I dont really like the sound of the filters.
My filter (VST FX plugin) of choice is CableGuys Filtershaper. It has a great, very sharp sound. If you are looking for the reese modulations you can often hear in DnB, or for sick filter movements of Psy Trance, this one is a great choice. Drawing a modulation curve is really easy, much easier than with the love Philter for example. You have several different, good sounding filters and can also use one of the curves to automate the volume.
An interesting filtering effect I like is the sample&hold filter movement. To do this you have to use a filter with a random square waveform. The Camel Audio Plugins have this one built in, another one I know of is the Albino 3 softsynth, I think Massive has this one too. use high resonance and let the random square modulate the filter frequency. Adjust speed to taste, but make sure the speed is synced to the host tempo... a rather fast speed is usually a good idea. |
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| Ry Thomas |
| I'll post some examples of my Akai MFC42 as soon as studio is set back up in new house |
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