I thought I'd give Kontakt's "3x2" filter a try -- hadn't used it before.
The manual describes the filter as highly configurable, which it seems to be, although I'm not too sure what's going on when I turn the "amt" knobs. The manual seems to imply that the "amt" knobs are like faders on a mixer, but that wouldn't explain why the filter is also apparently able to handle the signal in series. The signal flow diagram is meant to clear that up, but I don't understand it. Does anyone understand what this filter does?
Kontakt's 3x2 filter
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- KVRist
- 352 posts since 17 Jun, 2004
got me buddy. It appears to be a stacked filter with 2 seperate cut-offs - the amt controls the res me thinks. But I'm guessing 'cos I don't have it in front of me at the mo'
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- KVRAF
- 2582 posts since 24 Apr, 2003 from Canada
Ok, its 3 stacked filters. The amt controls the slope of each filter, which appears to be continuously variable unlike most filters (probably has a range of -0db to -64db or so). The type fades between the different filter types, HP, LP and BP (so its state variable). Shift controls the frequency spread between the first, second and third cutoffs.
It seems pretty easy to understand if you tweak the filter while looking at the visualization graphic.
It seems pretty easy to understand if you tweak the filter while looking at the visualization graphic.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 111 posts since 5 Jun, 2005
Hi, thanks to both for the responses. Yeah, the graphic is very helpful. It just seems like maybe there's something more going on that I've missed -- the manual talks about combining the filters in "almost any imaginable configuration" including series and parallel. I thought "stacked filters" were filters in series, so I don't see how I can obtain, for example, a parallel configuration.Jeremy_NSL wrote:Ok, its 3 stacked filters. The amt controls the slope of each filter, which appears to be continuously variable unlike most filters (probably has a range of -0db to -64db or so). The type fades between the different filter types, HP, LP and BP (so its state variable). Shift controls the frequency spread between the first, second and third cutoffs.
It seems pretty easy to understand if you tweak the filter while looking at the visualization graphic.
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- KVRAF
- 2582 posts since 24 Apr, 2003 from Canada
I don't see how you can obtain parallel out of this either tbh. Its a serial filter as far as I can tell.