--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
<Florian.Anwander@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Carlos
>
> > I guess I didnt word my message to well. yes which filter has the most
> > 'growl' but also sounds good and bassy when set to self oscillate
> OK - if I understand growl right (that what a Fender Jazzbass can

give),

> then still it is NOT the filter - its the oscillator waveform.
>
> Quite nice examples are the darker synth basses of Steve Winwood, or
> bass of Bernard Edwards in "Your love so good to me" (yes, the bass
> player of Chic did one of the greatest synth bass licks I know - and
> sorry for these boring old fart examples).
>
>
>
> Try this:
> 1.) Three VCOs, one with asymetric, not modulated pulsewave is very
> dominating, the others are saw and triangle but each of them gives

maybe

> only 10% of the signal.
> 2.) lot of small manual given vibratos from the modulation wheel.
> 3.) Lowpassfilter (no matter which one) with only a little(!) envelope
> amount, little resonance; filter envelope is more a longer and piano
> like envelope.
> 4.) VCA envelope may be organ or long piano style but without release.
> 5.) Put some fat and nasty compressor on it (Edwards used a Urei 1176).
>
> Now switch the compressors bypass on and off, and you will see, that
> especially the compressor raises the "growl" which basically was
> produced by the asymmetric pulse beating a littlebit with of the other
> low leveled VCOs.
>
> Florian
>

Great patch example.
I tried it with a wasp filter, a morfing filter and a system 100
filter. The difference between the filters is quite noticable. The
wasp sounds airy, the sys 100 blows the glass out of the window, the
morfing filter is in between.

Filters sound different, some are more creamy than others.
I think, the topic starter just wants to know what filter has the
nicest distortion character.