How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

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Bodega.
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How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by Bodega. » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:45 am

Sorry if this has come up before - I wasn't sure how to phrase my search.

I"m trying to create a midi controller routing that has these conditions for a channel with both a lowpass and highpass Auto filter:

1) when the pot is all the way left (midi 0) a lowpass filter and highpass filter are at their lowest setting (the HP is functionally not doing anything)
2) when the pot is all the way right (midi 127) the highpass and highpass filter are at their highest setting (the LP is functionally not doing anything)

all that is easy. The third is more tricky:

3) when the pot is at the midway point (midi 64) the LP and HP are still at their highest and lowest setting respectively (i.e. neither filter is doing anything).

The objective is to have a pot where you turn left to LP and right to HP, but the middle point is unfiltered, like on many dj mixers.

Is there a way to scale the midi input from my controller - in this case a nanoKontrol 2 - from within Ableton to produce this effect?

thanks!
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McAnix
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Re: How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by McAnix » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:15 am

I tried forever with racks and MIDI controllers to do this but could never figure it out.

Eventually I found these: There is a free VST called DJM filter that sounds quite nice but it can be buggy. A simple search should find it.

The best I found was this M4L device: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... ass-filter

Also found this but haven't tried it: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... knoblpfhpf

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Re: How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by Tarekith » Thu Feb 01, 2018 2:53 pm

I have one of these effects racks in my Dj pack, it’s called Twister Filter:

http://tarekith.com/assets/TarekithDJEFXv9.zip

Feel free to deconstruct it.

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Re: How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by Bodega. » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:26 pm

Just dl'd Twister Filter and I'll be giving it a spin later. Thanks!
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Re: How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by McAnix » Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:20 pm

Hey Tarekith nice pack! Dig the filter, being able to control the resonances separately is nice.

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Re: How to make a HP/LP/null pot?

Post by Tarekith » Fri Feb 02, 2018 6:44 pm

Thanks! A lot of those are actually in the Live 9 and Live 10 libraries already now, under the Effects Racks -> DJ & Performance section.

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