What is a Filter? - Daveypoo, The Mobile Music Minstrel

Daveypoo

What is a filter and how does it work? Here's a quick video on one of the most basic components of sound synthesis and music production. If you dig it, please like the video and subscribe to the channel. New content weekly!

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Sonicflux

Good video!

@Max23 said:
Not bad.
A few thoughts.
A wahwah is a low or bandpass

No wah wah that I know of is is a low pass filter. Only a bandpass.

In the beginning you wiggle a peak filter and talk about how filters empathizes and reduce frequencies - you are not doing it here, you are just boosting frequencies

You meant "emphasize." In this context, it means the same as boost.

You never say resonance( or did I miss it?), Q is moog lingo and not used very often.

What? Q is not Moog lingo. It's used for every parametric EQ that I've ever seen.

Daveypoo

@Max23 said:
Not bad.
A few thoughts.
A wahwah is a low or bandpass

True - simply trying to use an example of a common physical device you may have heard of.

In the beginning you wiggle a peak filter and talk about how filters empathizes and reduce frequencies - you are not doing it here, you are just boosting frequencies

This is true - more a simple illustration of the concept than a comprehensive overview.

You never say resonance( or did I miss it?), Q is moog lingo and not used very often.

I breeze past a ton of info here - this video was made to be under 10 minutes, so I wasn't able to be as detailed as I could've been. Q is parametric EQ lingo, so it's definitely something you'd run into in production if not on a synth.

You never tell how cutoff and resonance work together = boosting the freq at cutoff point if it’s not notch
Maybe filtering a chord or a drumloop makes a better example for hearing what is going on.

The Bandpass and Notch filtering are tougher to hear, but again this is an introduction rather than a deep dive.

I think I would show it of with an envelope,
Usually ppl don’t understand how filterenvelope amount and cutoff work together.

Don’t want to be overcritical but this stuff needs a little perpetration that takes a lot of time. Imagine you know nothing and you just see this ...

Thanks for the pointers - I'm still getting my feet under me here so I'll be more practiced as time goes on. I don't feel like there's any mis-information in the video, but I do feel like there's always more that can be said.

Feel free to drop some comments on YouTube and I can address them there directly!

Daveypoo

@Max23 I just edited the notes on YouTube to address some of your concerns. Thanks again for the feedback - I'll get better at these as I do more of them.

johnfromberkeley

This is fantastic, @dvlmusic! Awesome. A fresh voice.

I am looking forward to more!

oat_phipps

@dvlmusic said:
What is a filter and how does it work? Here's a quick video on one of the most basic components of sound synthesis and music production. If you dig it, please like the video and subscribe to the channel. New content weekly!

I’ll watch your vid momentarily, but that Civ VI icon on your home screen got me wondering...is it worth the $60 cost on iPad?

Daveypoo

@oat_phipps said:

@dvlmusic said:
What is a filter and how does it work? Here's a quick video on one of the most basic components of sound synthesis and music production. If you dig it, please like the video and subscribe to the channel. New content weekly!

I’ll watch your vid momentarily, but that Civ VI icon on your home screen got me wondering...is it worth the $60 cost on iPad?

It was worth the $30 I paid for it when it came out, that's for sure.

You either love Civ or you hate it. I own Civilization Revolution & Civ Rev 2 for iOS and Civ Rev for Xbox 360, so clearly I'm a fan. If you love it, then yes it's worth it, mainly because it's the full game as you'd get it on a desktop.

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