Filter sweeps in Traktor impossible?

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Filter sweeps in Traktor impossible?

Hey everyone!

This past weekend I saw both Calvin Harris and Excision here in Charlotte. One thing I seemed to notice that they do is they use the high pass filter to create a “whooshing” sound. It can create some serious build ups. I’m just wondering how this is possible in traktor. I’m using the ladder filter, but there’s just no resonance until you get to about 60 - 70%. I have a Kontrol S2, so I’m starting to wonder if this would be different with the S4? Maybe something to do with hardware filter vs software filter? Please help me out! The filter is quite possibly my favorite tool in DJ’ing, but it’s just lackluster as is. I tried my buddy’s DDJ-SX out and the filter was beautiful. As soon as I started moving the knob I would get a “whoosh” sound. Please, someone tell me there’s a way to emulate this in Traktor! I don’t want to get a serato board! I don’t care if I have to down grade Traktor versions.

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Set one of the effects units to single and load the FILTER effect into it. You can dial the resonance up a ton.

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You can use the LFO filter effect as Nemonic said, also, you can produce the sweeping sound if you move the filter quickly and smoothly, doing it gently doesn’t work as well.

Though my main piece of advice is to take a bit of a step back…it’s only a filter.

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This doesn’t do anywhere near what I want it to do. It just makes the track quieter. No “whoosh.”

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[quote=“CountenanT, post:3, topic:54365, username:CountenanT”]
You can use the LFO filter effect as Nemonic said, also, you can produce the sweeping sound if you move the filter quickly and smoothly, doing it gently doesn’t work as well.

Though my main piece of advice is to take a bit of a step back…it’s only a filter.
[/quote]This doesn’t work though. There’s no “whoosh.” Hey! When I think something sounds cool I want to implement it into my sets. I’ve always been obsessed with the filter haha.

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I’m going to go with O.E.

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Are you using the Ladder Filter Type? (in Mixer settings)

Edit: sorry, didn’t read properly. Your friend may be using the Noise Colour FX rather than the regular filter?

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[quote=“makar1, post:7, topic:54365, username:makar1”]
Are you using the Ladder Filter Type? (in Mixer settings)

Edit: sorry, didn’t read properly. Your friend may be using the Noise Colour FX rather than the regular filter?
[/quote]Nope. I was using the main filter knob. It had way more resonance.

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Well, my DJM 900 “Filter” doesn’t make a huge amount of resonance, whereas the Noise FX (same knob as the filter btw!) makes a much louder “whooshing” sound as soon as it’s enabled.

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I’m just wondering how to get this in Traktor. I really loved the way Calvin Harris, GTA, Vaski, Paper Diamond, and Excision used the effect in their sets. I know that what they did can’t be done with the ladder filter. It just doesn’t “whoosh!” Need me some whoosh, man!

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Maybe slap in some reverb and delay to get the whoosh?

Are to find the sound you want without a video/sound clip.

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This kind of “whoosh”?

(time 5:36)
Done more smoothly of course.

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Try wormhole macro fx to the right

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YES! How do I get that?

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5:36 in that video is the noise fx not the filter…

You could try putting a white noise loop in one deck and filtering that to get a similar effect.

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Set one of FX units in to single FX mode, load Filter92 and turn resonance to max. Then map a bit of T3 reverb and peak filter to get similar expression.

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DJTT member

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I messed a bit with this subject. Off course, Pio effects are hard to beat in Traktor but this is closest I could come using all available weapons in Traktor. Again, maybe some more tweaking could possibly give any better results.

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So how did you do it?

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The “whoosh” you hear isn’t the filter alone, and it’s not “resonance” alone that’s creating it. I’m guessing it’s the noiseFX you’re hearing (as stated above).