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By Upright Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:44 am
Hey guys!!1

I have been messing around with the filters(mainly the low pass filters) and they works great for isolating the lows in my samples but......my question is, is there a practical reason for using a low pass filter and a high pass filter together?? It sure doesn't seem like there would be. Like I said I don't really play with the high pass filters much

any help concerning this would be greatly appreciated

thanks guys :D

By ShaneFontane Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:06 am
sure, for example... hi-hats
you can use the low pass to kill some of the high end to warm it up and then add the high pass to remove some of the chunk that was introduced by the low pass filter...

By Mike Feedback Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:30 am
high pass + low pass = band pass

low pass removes the frequencies above it's threshold. high pass removes the frequencies below it's threshold. put them together, and you're left with the mid range frequencies that are between each threshold.
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By Upright Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:39 am
Thanks guys. Anyone else have some input??

By poschec Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:11 pm
(pitched)snares can sound like hihats when highpass filtered
use highpass to get rid of the bass from a sample to replace it with your own bass or to make the whole sound benefit from it (without highpass on the sample there would be too much bass frequencies.)
listen to gimme some mo by busta rhymes, the sample is filtered with highpass to give the bass more room.
use high and low pass filter linked to a slider to get some nice efx. combined with heavy pitched samples you can create new sounds.
use also both filters if you want to get rid of the bassline and highfrequency noise. to isolate midfrequency strings for example.
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By Upright Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:57 pm
Great stuff...thank you.
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By Antonym Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:59 pm
put on 2 filters and then experiment with the lfos.

OR. here's a weird one. put a snare on 1 pad, simult it to a 2nd snare on a 2nd pad, and then do this: on the first, apply a low pass filter, saw wav down, 100% pitch/filter modulation, and on the 2nd, use a high or band, 100% pitch/filter modulation. resulting sound tugs you in 2 directions.
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By Upright Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:05 pm
Wow that sounds neat!1 Only thing is the 2500 doesn't have simult(that I am aware of) I could always do this manually though. Basically the snares would be layered, right??