Forgive me if this is something everyone else knows. I have no experience with analog synths, and one thing about Bazille that really struck me as introducing new (to me) sound design possibilities was the way the gain knob on the filters seems to change the way the source interacts with resonance.
Could someone kindly explain why this happens/what it is?
Interaction between gain and resonance in Bazille's filters
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- KVRAF
- 13135 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
It all has to do with headroom.
If you overdrive the input of a filter, so that it clips, there isn't any headroom for the negative feedback (introduced by the resonance control) to have as much of a noticeable effect. If you feed a low level signal to the filter input, there is more headroom and as a result the filter can start oscillating sooner.
If you overdrive the input of a filter, so that it clips, there isn't any headroom for the negative feedback (introduced by the resonance control) to have as much of a noticeable effect. If you feed a low level signal to the filter input, there is more headroom and as a result the filter can start oscillating sooner.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 15 posts since 18 Jul, 2016
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Beatiful. This makes perfect sense. Thanks a bunch, man.justin3am wrote:It all has to do with headroom.
If you overdrive the input of a filter, so that it clips, there isn't any headroom for the negative feedback (introduced by the resonance control) to have as much of a noticeable effect. If you feed a low level signal to the filter input, there is more headroom and as a result the filter can start oscillating sooner.
