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Ladder Filter

A 4-pole MOOG-style LADDER low-pass — the warm, resonant, self-oscillating filter the biquad can't be. Cutoff sweeps the corner (modulate it with an LFO or envelope for the classic synth wobble / acid squelch); Resonance peaks at the cutoff and, near maximum, SELF-OSCILLATES into a pure sine you can play; Drive saturates the signal in the transistor stages for grit. Melody-owned DSP (ladder-rt). Insert it after an oscillator for that subtractive-synth character the biquad filter lacks.

Inputs

PortSignal
audio_inaudio · audio
cutoffaudio · hz
Resoaudio · norm

Outputs

PortSignal
audio_outaudio · audio

Parameters

ParameterRangeDefault
Cutoff20 – 20000 Hz1200
Reso0 – 100 %20
Drive0 – 100 %20

Used in these rigs

Acid Bass · Bowed Pad (Tasto · Normale · Ponticello) · Drone (Harmonium · Bagpipe) · Squeezebox (Accordion · Bandoneón) · Wind (Flute · Clarinet · Oboe · Sax)

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3-Band EQ · 3D Orbit · 3D Spatial · Amp Model · Auto-Pan · Band-pass Filter · Bitcrush · Buffer Stutter · Cabinet · Chorus · Compressor · Delay

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