Understanding the Vowel Filter

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christeck
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Understanding the Vowel Filter

Post by christeck »

The Vowel Filter didn't appear in any of my patches, since I do not understand what it does.

* An individual vowel emphasizes certain frequencies across the spectrum, which can be expressed by a set of band pass filters at fixed frequencies but different widths (aka »Q«). Great.
* The Vowel Filter allows to select from up to 5 Vowels, setting the according band pass filters. Great.
* Only one of the selected Vowel Bands can be active at a time, controlled (respectively cross faded) by the Cross Fade parameter. Great.
* Without the Cutoff and Resonance parameters set to reasonable values, modulating the X-fade parameter will not show the expected result. Head scratch.

So my question is: What do the cutoff and resonance parameter do concerning the Vowel filter?
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Re: Understanding the Vowel Filter

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As you wrote, the ‘vowels’ are being created by a number of bandpass filters...then the resonance controls the peaks as usual, and the cutoff changes the overall relative initial settings of each bandpass.
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