Lag (On Diva and Bazille) Can someone explain what it does to the signal please?

[benburling]

Hi

Lag (On Diva and Bazille) Can someone explain what it does to the signal please?

Thanks

Ben

[EvilDragon]

Smoothens abrupt signals out. It's basically a lowpass filter.

http://electronicmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Lag_processor

[3ee]

the lag control simply lags (not delay but rather fades) the signal (more useful on modulation than audio signals as I see it atm)

For example, if you want to change the filter cutoff on a pad sound with the pressure control.... to smooth out the action you might want to lag the modulation. (especially useful when you release pressure so the filter won't jump)

[benburling]

interesting.. so on bazille, if i used the lag fuction to modulate the pan.. it would give me a soft lfo effect? but not an exact frequency.. one that changes with the signal (main osc) is that right?

[EvilDragon]

Yes. Just try and play with it

[Tony Ostinato]

im a fan of it so ill chime in.

i play a yamaha wx5 windsynth, it has a breath control sensor that responds quite fast, if you have the filter resonance up you can sometimes hear "gurgling"
coming from turbulence in the airstream.

for some things thats cool but for other things youd like to smooth it out so its not jumping around so much and being so bumpy.

lag slows and smooths the midi control messages so it becomes more what youd expect from a foot pedal all the way to where you really have to push it around to get it to change.

[Howard]

...in bazille, if i used the lag fuction to modulate the pan... it would give me a soft lfo effect? but not an exact frequency... one that changes with the signal (main osc) is that right?

Sounds like you're still unsure, Ben. Lag just softens anything you send through it.

Try modulating oscillator pitch from lag-processed LFO (square wave), then all should become clear.

[3*s]

Oh wow you can use that to smooth the edges of a S&H LFO. I learned something today.