The Filters - Akai S3000XL User Manual

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THE FILTERS

Pressing
filter and the envelope generators:
From this page press the
The S3000XL is equipped with 12dB/octave lowpass resonant filters as found on many
analogue synthesisers. As well as using them for the tonal modification of acoustic
samples, they also allow you to totally transform a sound.
'Lowpass' means that the filter will allow low frequencies to pass through unaffected whilst
high frequencies are removed.
As the cutoff frequency is moved downwards, so high frequencies are gradually removed.
This is very convenient when dealing with samples of acoustic instruments because as
notes die away, they tend to lose their higher frequency content first. By applying an
envelope generator to the filter's cutoff frequency, we can emulate that on the sampler.
Another property of sound is that when it is played loud (ff) it is generally brighter than
when it is played softly (pp). Using the filter and applying velocity (or controlling the output
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displays the main keygroup function select where you may access the
key to take you to the filter page:
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HARMONICS
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HARMONICS
S3000XL Operator's Manual