Low-pass vs high-pass filter

When you’re trying to learn your way around synthesizers and their various components, you’ve probably encountered the almighty low pass filter. It’s the default filter when you open up any soft synth and it’s used in 90% of tutorials and presets you’ll find online. But, the low pass filter has an evil sibling, the high […]
Production Basics #10 – Subtractive Synthesis II

Let’s continue down the signal path of a subtractive synthesizer. In part 9 we got some insight into oscillators and other common parameters. In this part, we’ll discuss filters. But first, let’s talk quickly about the mixer. Mixer Since most synthesizers have multiple oscillators, we need some way to sum all outputs together. This is […]