FREE FILTERS
Future Music|December 2020
Get your fill with these five fabulous filters that have had the price tags cut off
FREE FILTERS

Audiothing Filterjam

Not your standard filter, Filterjam is actually a multiband filter setup under the hood. These four bands are then combined by a mixture of summing and multiplying (you select how exactly from a selection of four). There’s a frequency control to select the focal point (not a cutoff per se, but it depends on the mode), and then an emphasis control to add something akin to resonance. The signal chain finished with a gain and a mix control to refine the strength of the effect.

What Filterjam does to your signal can vary wildly depending on your material and the settings you go for. There are some characterful and non-conventional filtering effects here, but for the most part, you could think of this one as a distortion and ring mod processor – certainly as a tool for mangling your signal. Well worth having, even at twice the price. audiothing.net

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HY-Filter3 Free

A free offering based on the commercial HY-Filter3, the main controls of the default SVF mode are cutoff, drive, resonance, filter type (blend between low-pass, bandpass and high-pass), and an LFO. There’s also a Reso mode, with a network of three band-pass models connected in a choice of ways. Other settings abound here, with pre and post drive, smoothing, amp and pan, a three-band EQ, in/out levels, and a randomiser with user-defined limits.

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