Re: [LAU] Neve filters for Linux?

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:45:18PM +0000, Folderol wrote: Depends on the price of the felt tip pen. Regarding the 'feel' of filters, I've put up some examples on <http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/paramfilt.html>. These are three examples of a parametric filter set to 1 kHz, fixed 'bandwidth' and gain between -15 and +15 dB in steps of 5 dB. The curves for +15 dB are identical for all three. If you compare Type 1 and Type 2, it's easy to see that the two would 'feel' quite different if you turn the gain knob. Most filters you'll see in practice will be somewhere in between these two. For example my Ladspa filter plugin is such a compromise, visually somewhat closer to 1 than to 2. Type 3 looks quite odd, but it is in a sense the most 'natural' of all three: it corresponds to a variable amount of a *fixed* bandwidth (i.e. independent of gain) 2nd order resonance being added or subtracted. Again this 'feels' different. Now the DSP code used to produce these curves is identical for all. It has three internal parameters, c1, c2, g, and the only difference between the three forms is in the way that the three 'user' paramters Frequency, Bandwidth and Gain are mapped to the internal ones. Given a certain curve (i.e. values for c1, c2, g) all three can produce it. So this is in fact three time the *same* filter, just 'presented' differently.