Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

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TST
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Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 11:50 am

Hi all, I'm having no look trying to find a single plug-in with a central position and low pas to the left and high pass to the right. Just like the Traktor bi-rectional filters.

Has anyone come across a more DJ orientated plug-in to offer this?

I am aware of the work arounds, but I'm trying to create a simple set-up for beginners so it needs to be out of the box.

thanks for any help in advance.

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by paulmaddox » Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:53 pm

Just use an fx rack with both filters in and map a macro knob with the range set accordingly.

EDIT - spoke too soon - it's not as simple as that to do with one knob as you can't set the filter to do a full sweep for just half the macro knob range.

TST
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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:43 pm

yeah so far I think controlling two filters with a centre orientated MIDI slider in Lemur on the iPad will be best. With a different CC going up to going down, then have it set to auto snap back to its middle position.

It's odd though such a simple and obviously easy to use approach to filter sweeps and there isn't any obvious VSTs for it.

Anyone else got any suggestions?

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by be tonal » Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:47 pm

Don´t know of a vst, but if you have M4L you can do it the way paulmaddox described plus Ben Juodvalkis´ Modulator

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:00 pm

thanks be tonal, but I need to keep it tech lite and also without the need to buy anything major on top of Live

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by NPC » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:06 pm

there was this free plugin i came across..not the best filter for how it does actually sound but it has this central position thing-- "the pilgrim". Never used it though..
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TST
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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:14 pm

excellent will try it out now, thanks

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:21 pm

cool, it doesn't have resonance, or any drive in it but it does the basics pretty well. thanks NPC

I was also advised to try Turnado, but at a glance couldn't figure out how to get the high pass to run the right way on the fader. I could get it to only work on the lower halve, but couldn't spot how to do the reverse.

thanks all

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by bosonHavoc » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:42 pm

i'm thinking an even better feature request would be away to change the resolution of the macro knobs to send a 0 value when center then from center to left goes from 0-127 and center to right goes from 0-127. This would open the door wide for xy controllers to do some amazing things. I am thinking the chain selector would also have to change to reflect the same values.

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by jaynyc » Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:54 pm

TST wrote:Hi all, I'm having no look trying to find a single plug-in with a central position and low pas to the left and high pass to the right. Just like the Traktor bi-rectional filters.

Has anyone come across a more DJ orientated plug-in to offer this?

I am aware of the work arounds, but I'm trying to create a simple set-up for beginners so it needs to be out of the box.

thanks for any help in advance.
couple options
1. HiLo filter from Teragon
http://teragonaudio.com/software.html

2. TwisterFilter from Tarekith
http://tarekith.com/assets/TarekithDJEFXv8.5.zip

You may also want to visit http://abletonlivedj.com

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 11:19 pm

great thanks for that. Downloading them both now to try. I found with a single limiter set to activate. One for up and the other down, then to raise the gain to 6db on a Macro assignment, got a pretty good bite to The Pilgrim. But having resonance on HiLo looks like it might be better.

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by TST » Sun Sep 30, 2012 11:54 pm

thanks again teragon with two utility's set to about 6 db boosts for either side is pretty close to the Traktor filter without A/bing them. Thanks all for the help

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Re: Need a bi-directional low to high pass filter plug-in

Post by bosonHavoc » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:04 pm

check this free filter out too
the DJMFilter effect from Xfer Records
http://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/

it does exactly what you want and sounds really good.

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