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When both halves of the pitcher slider are set below or above the centered position,
either a low or high velocity will slide up/down to the original pitch. Dependent on the
position of the upper/lower halves of the slider in relation to the center position, the
time required for the slide up/down to the original note pitch can be adjusted
independently for both soft/hard velocities.
Filter Parameters
Filter On/Off Switch
This button switches the filter section on or off. Please note that the knobs and buttons
in the silver panel area and the Filter Envelope are only active when the filter is turned
on. When the filter section is turned off, the EXS24 is far less CPU-intensive.
Lowpass (LP)
The Lowpass Filter offers four different settings for its cutoff steepness: 24 dB (4 pole),
18 dB (3 pole), 12 dB (2 pole), and 6 dB (1 pole). The 24 dB setting can be used for
drastic sweep effects, such as cutting off all but a few notes, or for the creation of ultra-
deep bass sounds with just the necessary amount of overtones. The slope setting of
6 dB per octave is very useful in cases where you want a slightly “warmer” sound,
without drastic filter effects—to smooth “overly bright” samples, for example. The two
remaining values may be used for any purposes.
Fat (Fatness)
The Fatness mode is separate from the slope setting, and can be used with all available
slope values. Fatness preserves the bass frequency response, even when high
Resonance settings are used. Please note that this only applies to Lowpass filters.
Fatness is non-functional when used in conjunction with the High or Bandpass filters.
Highpass (HP)
The Highpass Filter is a 2 pole (12 dB/Oct.) design. A Highpass filter reduces the level of
frequencies that fall below the cutoff frequency. It is useful for situations where you
would like to suppress the bass and bass drum in a sample, for example, or for creating
classic highpass filter sweeps.