AvailableEffect

Filter

A resonant low-pass filter for shaping tone.

@maru shared this effect so you can play it in your DAW, remix it or put it on your site.

A stage of OSC-1. It works the same on its own page as it does in the chain, same parameters, same paths.

What it does

A mono resonant filter with four modes and a contour that sweeps the cutoff every time you play a note. Put it after an oscillator, a drum loop or a guitar take and play it from a keyboard to make the tone move.

The idea

In a subtractive synth, nothing changes the sound as much per degree of rotation as the filter. Filter gives you the classic four shapes, plus an ADSR contour that opens and closes the cutoff in time with your playing. The contour is triggered by notes, so the audio passes through continuously while MIDI decides when each sweep starts and ends.

Guide and controls

How it works.

A second-order biquad in one of four modes. Cutoff sets its corner and Resonance sets the Q, which is emphasis at that corner rather than a separate resonance circuit - a real analogue ladder behaves differently at the extremes, and this does not pretend otherwise.

The contour is its own ADSR, separate from the amplitude envelope, sweeping from Base Freq upward by Env Octaves. That separation is the difference between this and OSC Mini, where one envelope does both jobs.

What would you make with Filter?

Describe what you want to make. Build it with the Studio agent.

Part of Eurorack contour

Goes well with.

Prototype

A complete synth built from separate modules.

Building block

Two oscillators with independent pitch, level, and stereo position.

Building block

Four controls for plucks, pads, and everything between.