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The formant filter

The formant filter - Modular V Tutorial

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The formant filter

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(electronic keyboard music) - [Instructor] We're going to play around with one more filter type, one that specializes in imitating the vocal passage to create vowel-like sounds. I'll select another template here, in this case I'm going to go for maybe two oscillator mono. (keyboard playing) Couple sawtooth waves. Raise the filter cutoff a bit. Let's go down to the bottom where the keyboard controller is and add some glide between our notes. (keyboard playing) Little bit of slide between notes is a little closer to imitating the way a singer would move between pitches while sustaining a note. I'll go back up here and change our LFO to a Formant filter. It has a series of vowels you can choose from the bottom, and four additional tuned resonating filters, kind of like bandpass notch filters again, that you can tune and modulate. So I'm going to take the output of my normal filter, run it to the input of my Formant filter, and the output of that to my VCA. Now as I vary these vowels, I…

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