FabFilter Twin2 trick
- April 23rd, 2009
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One of the things that I truly love about the Clavia Nord Lead 2 is its filter section. It has got four filter types, as I can remember: LP, BP and HP, all at 12 or 24dB. Correct, that’s only three. So which is the fourth? It’s called LP+Notch and it’s got a LP filter (duh!) with a setting of 12 or 24dB in serial with a notch filter (or band rejection, or band stop) at a fixed roll-off of 12dB. As far as I can remember, the lower roll-off of the notch filter had the same frequency as the LP filter’s roll off frequency. Modulate them both for best effect.
FabFilter released Twin2 a couple of months ago. Seriously, it’s fantastic so grab the demo and try it out. It’s worth it! Read about the specifications here.
- “So, what about the trick?” you may wonder. Well, here it goes.
I wrote to FabFilter requesting a notch filter. In the current version, 2.01, it got LP, BP and HP - and you have two of them in either serial or parallel operation. You can build a notch filter using both the filters but then you’re one short for the Nord Lead 2 filter setup. FabFilter gave me a hint of using the filters in the delay section (there’s actually a delay section with two filters just as powerful as the main filters - nice work FabFilter!), so I tried it.
The patch kind of explains itself, so put it among the rest of the presets (preferably in a folder named David since there might be more patches from me and perhaps you’d like to keep them together to not clutter up the preset list) for Twin2, fire up an instance and load the sound. Use the modulation wheel for filter cutoff frequency and after touch for some vibrato.