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Prefabricated time-varying band-pass filter</A>
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Time-varying band-pass filtering, as often used in classical
subtractive synthesis (Section <A HREF="node152.html#sect08.subtractive">8.4.1</A>), can be done
using the <TT>vcf~</TT> object, introduced here:
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<A ID="10846"></A>a "voltage controlled" band-pass filter,
similar to <TT>bp~</TT>, but with a signal inlet to control center frequency.
Both <TT>bp~</TT> and <TT>vcf~</TT> are one-pole resonant filters as
developed in Section <A HREF="node143.html#sect8.twopolebandpass">8.3.4</A>; <TT>bp~</TT> outputs only
the real part of the resulting signal, while <TT>vcf~</TT> outputs the
real and imaginary parts separately.
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<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 8.29:</STRONG>
The <TT>vcf~</TT> band-pass filter, with its center frequency
controlled by an audio signal (as compared to
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Example H04.filter.sweep.pd (Figure <A HREF="#fig08.29">8.29</A>) demonstrates using the <TT>vcf~</TT> object for a simple and characteristic subtractive synthesis task. A
<TT>phasor~</TT> object (at top) creates a sawtooth wave to filter. (This is
not especially good practice as we are not controlling the possibility of
foldover; a better sawtooth generator for this purpose will be developed in
Chapter 10.) The second <TT>phasor~</TT> object (labeled "LFO for sweep")
controls the time-varying center frequency. After adjusting to set the depth
and a base center frequency (given in MIDI units), the result is converted into
Hertz (using the <TT>tabread4~</TT> object) and passed to <TT>vcf~</TT> to set
its center frequency. Another example of using a <TT>vcf~</TT> object for
subtractive synthesis is demonstrated in example H05.filter.floyd.pd.
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