how has Filterscape panned out for you all?
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- KVRAF
- 2454 posts since 5 Oct, 2003
I'm on the fence about filterscape. I love what I imagine to be the tremendous variety of effects you can achieve, but just can't grasp how it would be day to day in use. I do mostly very experimental work and usually only end up using a program if it can acheive something very crazy but unsynthetic kinds of sounds (like I can get with some Reaktor ensembles, Spektral Delay, Ohmforce stuff and Zebra 2...) I know this may be confusing but suffice to say I'd like to get some feedback yay or nay...
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- KVRist
- 187 posts since 2 May, 2006 from A shoebox in Connecticut
It's one of those plugins that I should use more but keep forgetting about. Only criticism is the GUI is far too small for me which is probably another reason that I don't use it often (and the scrollwheel doesn't work....hint, hint). 
Could be quite an indispensable thing what with all the effects and eq, etc, in addition to the actual filters.
The morphing and step sequencer stuff should help come up with the weird effect you like.
David
Could be quite an indispensable thing what with all the effects and eq, etc, in addition to the actual filters. The morphing and step sequencer stuff should help come up with the weird effect you like.
David
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- KVRAF
- 3345 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from Amsterdam
I love it, and I like some of the 'competitors' too (other moving filters/delays). It will probably be used in my entry for the November kvr contest . Just imagine a fluid 8 step moving pattern for filters and EQ's... to create completely new pads (that's where I used it for mostly until now), lively hihats or cymbals, etc etc. Maybe these are not the things that you want to use it for... but many of the presets create sounds that are too bizarre for me (too crazy and unsynthetic), but they might be perfect for you .
. Just imagine a fluid 8 step moving pattern for filters and EQ's... to create completely new pads (that's where I used it for mostly until now), lively hihats or cymbals, etc etc. Maybe these are not the things that you want to use it for... but many of the presets create sounds that are too bizarre for me (too crazy and unsynthetic), but they might be perfect for you .-
- u-he
- 30213 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
I'd also be very interested in that.
The applications I had in mind were far from bizarr:
- automated EQ snapshots
- EQ'd delays
- somehow rhythmic evolving eq stuff
- dynamic eqs
- thicker sound out of arbitrary sources (voice, synth, guitar)
as a side effect you'd also get:
- all sorts of panners
- de-essers and otherwise frequency-related dynamics
- well, EQ
I'd love to know what everybody is using it for...
... and I'd especially love to know what you thought you could use it for but then couldn't and it would be great if you could...
Urs
The applications I had in mind were far from bizarr:
- automated EQ snapshots
- EQ'd delays
- somehow rhythmic evolving eq stuff
- dynamic eqs
- thicker sound out of arbitrary sources (voice, synth, guitar)
as a side effect you'd also get:
- all sorts of panners
- de-essers and otherwise frequency-related dynamics
- well, EQ
I'd love to know what everybody is using it for...
... and I'd especially love to know what you thought you could use it for but then couldn't and it would be great if you could...
Urs-
- KVRian
- 703 posts since 15 Aug, 2005
I just got it, and was pleasantly surprised to see how good the EQ and synth were. I only need the automated filtering on occasion, but I wanted to have Filterscape to learn it and have it ready when needed. But then I got on a detour with the other two included modules and liked them a lot, too.
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- KVRer
- 19 posts since 24 Apr, 2006 from Manchester, England
Guitars guitars guitars, and some pads. It is sooo cool on guitars, eq'ed delays and morphing filters and you have yourself instant guitar weirdness. I love it! I also put it on static pad sounds sometimes to add interest to them.
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- KVRist
- 71 posts since 12 Sep, 2006
I use Filterscape all the time nowadays.
It's very appropriate for many of my channels -- my most prevalent use is to make parts more interesting over time.
I use a lot of soft synths, and many of them sound great, but wear on the ears after a time. This is especially true when you can tell the last held note is exactly the same as the previous held note no matter how good the timbre might be.
By adding filterscape, I can add enough subtle, evolving variety to the sounds so as to keep the timbre essentially untouched, but to make sustained notes "not boring", which makes the mix much more palatable. You could think of it not unlike adding a gentle analogue feel by making the instrument feel or play a little different throughout the piece.
It's very appropriate for many of my channels -- my most prevalent use is to make parts more interesting over time.
I use a lot of soft synths, and many of them sound great, but wear on the ears after a time. This is especially true when you can tell the last held note is exactly the same as the previous held note no matter how good the timbre might be.
By adding filterscape, I can add enough subtle, evolving variety to the sounds so as to keep the timbre essentially untouched, but to make sustained notes "not boring", which makes the mix much more palatable. You could think of it not unlike adding a gentle analogue feel by making the instrument feel or play a little different throughout the piece.
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- KVRist
- 87 posts since 26 Jul, 2004
i use it for even the most basic filtering tasks, because i feel it has superior sound quality!
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- KVRist
- 407 posts since 24 Aug, 2004 from under the big oak tree
I use it when i need a smooth high quality sound. Sometimes drum parts and othertimes with synth lines.
Unfortunatly even though i have had it since it first came out it doesnt get used as much as i would like due to its complexity. Normally i opt for filters plugins i know my way around and can program easily instead of just useing tweeked presets of filterscape.
Unfortunatly even though i have had it since it first came out it doesnt get used as much as i would like due to its complexity. Normally i opt for filters plugins i know my way around and can program easily instead of just useing tweeked presets of filterscape.
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- KVRist
- 78 posts since 12 May, 2005 from Finger Lakes, NY, US
Since I've been using Filterscape, my whites are whiter, my breath is fresher, and I have more friends.
Mostly I use it for marginally-perverse processing of voice, but then that's mostly what I've been doing lately. The only thing it doesn't do that I wish it did is algorithmic generation of presets. You haven't forgotten our discussion of a few months ago, have you Urs?
Mostly I use it for marginally-perverse processing of voice, but then that's mostly what I've been doing lately. The only thing it doesn't do that I wish it did is algorithmic generation of presets. You haven't forgotten our discussion of a few months ago, have you Urs?
Most people wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass. –FZ
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- u-he
- 30213 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
No, I havn't. Of course not!groundhum wrote:Since I've been using Filterscape, my whites are whiter, my breath is fresher, and I have more friends.
Mostly I use it for marginally-perverse processing of voice, but then that's mostly what I've been doing lately. The only thing it doesn't do that I wish it did is algorithmic generation of presets. You haven't forgotten our discussion of a few months ago, have you Urs?
The Filterscape UB beta (like Zebra2) already has a virtual machine and a compiler for scripted presets inside
I just have not found *any* time to document this feature, yet
Urs