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Old 01-06-2021, 02:45 PM   #1
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Default Filter modulation frequency scaling

I feel like this should be straightforward but I’m not getting my head around it! I have a filter and a bipolar LFO. I want the LFO to modulate the cutoff frequency in a way that scales to the cutoff frequency, as it modulates much more deeply when the cutoff is at lower frequencies.

I think I need to translate the LFO modulation, but I’m getting a bit confused with power functions etc.

My LFO is ranging from -1 to 1 and the filter cutoff from 0 to 1. I can translate these to frequency values and back again.

I'd post my code, but it's a mess from trying things out!
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Old 01-06-2021, 03:04 PM   #2
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I guess you will want to something like y = 2^x, where x is your LFO. If x is in [-1, 1], then y would be in [0.5, 2]. You can scale x to get a smaller range, e.g. 2^(x/2) would give you y in [0.707, 1.41], etc.
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Old 01-06-2021, 04:04 PM   #3
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Thanks for your reply! Had brought y = 2^x into it, but still hit the problem that adding the LFO to a low cutoff value results in more modulation than adding it to a higher cutoff value. Also means that the LFO depth knob has more effect when the cutoff is low. Feels like I'm missing an important step of the puzzle!
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Old 01-06-2021, 04:39 PM   #4
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This is what I have so far. Oversampling is implemented in my plugin but it's not active while I'm working on this. Will be optimising after the functionality is sorted.

Code:
    
    // Process the input signal
    for (int i=0; i<numchans; i++)
    {
        // Get the sample to process
        double sampleBeingProcessed = inputs[i][s];
        
        // Filter
        if (GetParam(kFilterActive)->Value())
        {
            frequency = GetParam(kFilterCutoff)->Value() / oversampledsamplerate;
            double resonance = GetParam(kFilterResonance)->Value();
            inputFilter[i]->setQ(resonance);
            
            lfotempval = LFODataGeneratedA[i][s];
            lfotempval = pow(2.0, lfotempval)-1;
            lfotempval = lfotempval * (GetParam(kFilterCutoffLFO1Mod)->Value() * 0.001);
            
            inputFilter[i]->setFc(frequency+lfotempval);

            filtered = inputFilter[i]->process(inputs[i][s]);
            sampleBeingProcessed = filtered;
        }
    }

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Old 01-06-2021, 04:59 PM   #5
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Got it! Multiplied the translated LFO value with the cutoff frequency, then added that to the cutoff frequency and divided the result by the sample rate to bring it to between 0 and 1. Seems to be correct so far anyway...

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     // Process the input signal
     for (int i=0; i<numchans; i++)
     {
         // Get the sample to process
         double sampleBeingProcessed = inputs[i][s];
         
         // Filter
         if (GetParam(kFilterActive)->Value())
         {
             frequency = GetParam(kFilterCutoff)->Value() / (oversampledsamplerate);
             double resonance = GetParam(kFilterResonance)->Value();
             inputFilter[i]->setQ(resonance);
             
             lfotempval = LFODataGeneratedA[i][s];
             lfotempval = pow(2.0, lfotempval)-1;
             lfotempval = lfotempval * (GetParam(kFilterCutoffLFO1Mod)->Value() * 0.01);
             
             convfreq = GetParam(kFilterCutoff)->Value() + (GetParam(kFilterCutoff)->Value()*lfotempval);
             
             inputFilter[i]->setFc(convfreq / oversampledsamplerate);

             filtered = inputFilter[i]->process(inputs[i][s]);
             sampleBeingProcessed = filtered;
         }
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Old 01-06-2021, 05:15 PM   #6
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This is what I have so far. Oversampling is implemented in my plugin but it's not active while I'm working on this. Will be optimising after the functionality is sorted.
How is you kFilterCutoff param shaped? I guess it provides an exponential curve (shape > 1)? The most straight forward approach would be to shape your lfo the same way.
To keep things simple remove the shape from your knob and do the exponential scaling after summing your cf sources. Something like...
convfreq = pow(BOUNDED((lfotempval + knob), 0, 1), shape)
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Old 01-06-2021, 05:46 PM   #7
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It's linear, and the LFO is also sent to other parameters which don't want exponential scaling. I added the bounding in after the last post, but will try out your suggestion too.
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Old 01-07-2021, 12:49 AM   #8
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I see you've figured it out already, but FWIW: The idea was to multiply your freq with y, so x in [-1, 1] would result in [freq*0.5, freq*2].
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