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By theNovice Sun Apr 23, 2023 5:07 pm
For example you can quickly assign a lowpass and highpass or bandpass etc to a pad on the 2500. It allowed 2.

Is there a way to do this on the Live/X right now?

Currently I was using prog edit -> env: filters and choosing lowpass 1 pole or 2 pole (whatever that means)

but is there a way to put 2 filters?

Not to be confused with effects. That's not what I want to do/simulate.

Thanks!
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By hyena Sun Apr 23, 2023 6:06 pm
only on drum programs but yeah, sort of...
you can use three actually. you have the regular one in the filter page, complete with resonance, envelope and modulations, then if you just need to carve more stuff out, you click two times on the effects page and you reach the drum program pads only effects (not to be confused with the regular INSERT effects) where you can set both a lowpass and an highpass. they are pretty basic tho, no resonance, no modulation at all.

the poles of the filter represent how steep the filter slope is, with 1 pole being the lazyest and 8 poles being very surgical, very steep. it's often named as xdb\oct meaning how many db the sound will lose an octave higher or lower in respect to the cutoff frequency.
1 pole = 1st order filter = 6db/oct
2 poles = 2nd order filter = 12 db/oct
3 poles = 3rd order filter = 18 db/oct
and so on and so forth, each pole carving out 6db more than the previous.
example: moog famous transistor ladder filter is a 4 pole 24db/oct lowpass filter whilst the also famous oberheim SEM filter is 12db/oct multimode filter.