DIY SYNTH VCF Part 1: Analog Filtering Basics
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In this series, I'm taking a detailed look at how to build an analog VCF from scratch. To keep it as beginner-friendly as possible, I'm explaining what all the components do in detail.
This first part deals with passive first- and second order high & low pass filters. If you want to follow along, here's a bill of materials:
1x 1M mono potentiometer
1x 1M stereo potentiometer
1x 47k resistor
2x 10 nF capacitor
2x jack socket
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What's a filter?
03:50 Oscillation basics
06:16 Low pass analysis
10:57 Low pass build
12:49 Moving the cutoff point
14:33 High pass analysis
17:44 High pass build
18:05 Higher order filters
19:20 Second order low pass build
20:40 Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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please don't stop these series, I'm learning how to start building my own synthesizer from your videos and you are really good at explaining things
Ok, you are the Bob Ross of synth theory 🖤
LOL…don’t insult him
if these/such videos had existed 40 years ago, my life would have been different (this is the biggest compliment i can possibly make)
This is honestly my favourite youtube channel right now. Great stuff.
Comments like this make me subscribe instantly.
Wow I'm a Computer Engineer major and you do a great job at this than Professors. Great job man.
Nonsense. At uni, you should’ve learned all the math behind it, Fourier transforms, Nyquist, analog filters, digital filters and sampling. You would have to know all that to implement it digitally in a computer. This is a good practical intro, but with detail cut to near zero, for noobs.
Your post is a meme, I see this kind of comment on just about all these kind of sites, and it can’t possibly be true, unless you slept through your degree.
@@rob28803 uh? don't so goddamn consescending.
Professors are often boring and have terrible explanations. Moritz Klein has very simple explanations here- which you note correctly that by doing this, he does have to omitt a lot of detail, and all of the maths involved. But that's just it- he is only omitting the hard theory. These videos are meant to be for practical purposes.
And I understand that you already know this, and you were just criticising the commenter here for comparing Klein's work to that of a professors- but I would argue that the commenter here is also right.
I think that Klein provides such a solid foundation in these videos that all that is missing is the math. I think he could easily explain that here as well, but he doesn't, because most are uninterested in the maths when they come to these videos. The commenter here was simply praising Klein's excellent teaching ability, and I believe he is right in doing so.
I've tried to be civil in my reply to you here, but seriously dude, you need to touch some grass. stop being such a STEMlord.
@@ff-qf1th It is true, that this is a good entry into the matter. But also don't talk bullshit. If you study physics or something-with-e or computer science and you are not fluent "speaking" the math behind the physics you won't survive a semester.
If you talk to your professor about the water analogy he will probably drown you(joke). In contrary, if he explains the physics behind electron movement, the endeavor of load carriers to balance each other out with water analogies he will probably get fired(no joke, fired by Georg Simon Ohm himself, turning around in his grave.)
Also if rob would criticize the video creator his comment would be over the top ... because why would he watch something he knows clearly in depth and then comment his frustration? That would be worth of a "STEMlord". But it is NOT like that! He criticizes the brain-empty comment that absolutely does not reflect reality, made by Trevor.
Further, there is absolutely no problem here with Trevor having no clue and his(!) professor not telling him about the intricacies of electrical engineering and the physics behind it, because he and his prof are COMPUTER SCIENTISTS. Saying "than Professors" and not "my", the plural is the nonsense here.
Oh and BTW: Next time, you or Trevor or me or Rob are building a filter ... despite the knowledge shown in the video here ... we need that f'ing math. Or what, a professor, a nanny?:P
P.S.: Calm down. The ethical standards that you apply to others(here by misunderstanding?!) will help nothing when you dimension a filter, next time. Next time? I doubt this will happen in the next 4.32×10^17 seconds. Excuse my rant, getting excited doesn't make sense anyway. Either do it or let it stay(i mean electronics).
I've been fascitinated with filters and dipping my toes into DIY now. I knew a mix of resistors and capactoiors create filters, but I always wanted to know how these two componots remove frequencies. Your video finally taught me, subscribed!
You really have a talent for explaining. I always wondered how my synths actually work, but I couldn't find a source that was deep enough, yet understandable enough without a background in electrical engineering. I think you've successfully hit that sweetspot. Keep up the good work! Thanks!
Remarkable..... I've been into electronics (professionally and as a hobby) for over 40 years, and I've never heard such a clear and concise description of filters like this. You, sir, are a gem to the hobbyists and DIY'ers. I am seriously considering joining your patreon to help you continue your series, as well as other projects you might venture into. Please keep up the excellent work and dissemination of this information.
Lovely explanations! One minor nitpick though - filter cutoff frequency is not where the filter starts filtering, it's where the signal has already dropped off by 3 dB from the passband unity gain.
Your channel is a treasure trove to me. I have been tinkering with electronics as a child, and later when I got into music production, I wanted to learn how circuits can generate and manipulate sound. I searched all around, but never found something that truly satisfied this longing in my soul. I wasn't so interested in blindly building these circuits, I wanted to know why they were designed that way, and why they worked.
A few months ago, I found your video on building a compressor and after I watched it, I knew that I had finally found what I had been looking for. Thank you for these videos, you rock!
Oh my God dude, I've been trying to understand this for 3 or 4 years now after going to school tomget electronics degree , I ran into the exact problem you stated at the beginning your pipe and balloon method just helped me understand this more than my studying in the last half decade. Your an amazing teacher man , another vid going in to my pouch
I swear with these videos and W2AEW I'm privileged to sit on a veritable goldmine of practical knowledge. Thank you...!
You just taught me more in this video than 4 weeks of an intro to circuits class did
This is a fantastic video! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series and your other videos.
Great as usual, can't wait for your explanations about active filters...
this is extremely well produced and presented. i will definitly be watching your vco series
Man, you are the coolest! Don't stop these series please!
Your channel is fantastic. I'm building an analog drum sequencer atm and I'm still in the schematics phase because I keep getting ideas from you :)
I’m in love with this series!
Loving this channel. Best explanation I’ve seen on this subject.
Great explanations! You have good materials on your channel! Love to see more. Thanks!
That was a beautifully simple explanation and examples on filters!
Great stuff. You explained it very well with good production quality. Thanks
Finally a simple to understand synth DIY channel! You even added the components in the description. I can’t wait for more of these!
Moritz, this is such a powerful work you did! Everything is so clear when you explain! Merci beaucoup!!!
Amazing video! I’ve always struggled to develop an intuition about the water analogy and it all clicked together now! The balloon metaphor is great!
REALLY well explained! Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these videos.
Yes!!! This is what i was looking for last semester! Thank you for putting out some stuff for me to play around with during my circuits courses!
Thank you for doing this. It really brings a lot of concepts together within my degree. Awesome job!
Thank you for making these high quality video and sharing the knowledge with the community!
Fantastic clarity of concepts using water and pressure analogy. Looking forward to the VCF part 2 and the resonant circuit. Great stuff!!
Thank you for this series. You are really good at explaining how and why these circuits function the way they do. Great stuff keep it up.
thank you for doing this series, I already builded your VCO and it's sounding great! , your videos gave me the confidence to finally start building my modules.
Glad to find your channel, I've been wanting to get into building synths and didn't know where to start, but your videos have demystified a lot concepts for me.
You've created a valuable resource here, thank you so much!
This is fantastic. You are a great teacher. Goes deep yet easy to follow.
Fantastic, as always. You are a very good at teaching. Thank you, Moritz!
Big up uncle Moritz! this is hands down the best series in town, cant wait to watch all the follow up videos
One of the best explanations of electronics
Fantastic information! Been going through your other filter videos and while I'm vaguely aware of most of this from my Uni, your videos truly make things click and make audio filtering and the formulation behind it really make sense. Truly appreciate your efforts! Keep it up!
Ehy man I've just discovered This channel and I'm already in love, thank you!
Wow. This was incredibly informative. Well done!
I'm so glad I found your channel, these videos are really interesting. Your explanations of these concepts are so clear and concise it's easy to follow and I have learnt so much from just watching a couple of your videos. Looking forward to watching them all. Thank you.
thank you for sharing!!! this is wonderful Moritz!
Your analogies, and explanations, are absolutely marvelous! I now have a far greater understanding of filters, and electronic principles.
Fantastic! I can’t wait to watch more.
By far the best explanations of analog
I have been looking for a good channel about diy modular synths for ages. Now I finally found one, so I subscribed instantly.
Please keep these series of videos coming! They are really the best pieces of information about diy modular synths out there.
Absolute best fundamental explanation available!
Possibly the best video I've ever watched on TH-cam. Massively educational and insightful. Well done indeed and thank you 🙂
Great storytelling... love the pipes, balloons and pressure analogy to describe how components and circuits work. Well worth following or bookmarking this mini series.
Your method of explanation is truly exceptional. Learning from you is easy...thank you so much and please continue.
Great subject, perfectly explained!
possibly the best youtube series on diy synth building
Explained so well, I am just a week into this, home education now
I like referring to the harmonics of a square wave as overtones. It gives this kind of intuitive understanding of what harmonics are.
By far the best and most educational lesson on how filters work I've ever seen anywhere online. Very well explained, and even if I didn't already have some basic understanding of electronics, it would have been easy to follow. Well done. This may now be my favourite TH-cam channel after just watching one video.
Your videos are incredibly effective and enjoyable to watch. Please keep doing what you're doing, you're super successful at supplying knowledge to thousands of enthusiasts around the world.
This is the best video about (synthesizer) electronics I've seen... ever.
It seemed a long explanation at first but then every bit is useful at the end. Great video.
Wow thank you!! This was really good made and understandable. Did not have the components at home, but a single capacitor. Was just holding it between two mono jacks, a cable between the ground and there was a high pass 🤩🤩🤩
Genius! This explanation is excellent, its really made me understand filtering. Keep up the amazing work.
These videos are so wonderful. Great level of explanation for those of us with familiarity with what filters do but not how they work. One of the hardest parts of explanation is estimating the level knowledge your audience has.
Waaw u have explained it so well ...i never understood filters in the classrooms...thank u
very well explained! Good job ! Will clearly look at future similar videos
Finally someone that puts electronics simple enough for me to understand , thank you !😉
Looking forward to the next one!
Outstanding course. Many thanks
Thanks Moritz for really good info!!!
I've watched almost everything youtube had to offer in terms of D.I.Y. modular synth video and your videos are the clearest and most accurate I've been able to find so far! Thank you so much for all the great videos you are sharing.
I've been building my own synth from scratch for 2 years now. I had no background at all. There is a lot of usefull info on the internet but this channel is super clear and educative.. Thanks a lot!
Really amazing video extremely detailed and good described. I enjoyed watching it
Nice, thanks for making this so clear and easy to understand.
Cannot wait for Part 2!
What a cool explanation. Never have seen it so easy ans understandeble. Thank you. 😀👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Man what a fantastic video. Great work!
I was learning how to make my own hardware equalizers and compressors and then I stumbled upon this. I just want to say what an excellent analogy and teaching style you have. Kudos, please keep making this, I would love more hardware plugin related lessons as well.
That was great. Thanks for the explaination.
This is amazing, thank you so much for doing this!
Looking forward to the next video!
This is very well explained 👍
Very interesting and informative video!
Excellent, informative video - thank you!!!
This is a great explanation!
In the past I have also used the idea of a voltage divider with one resistor and one capacitor, where the capacitors resistance is frequency dependent. This has also worked well as long as I have explained a normal voltage divider first (volume control), but I think I will steal your balloon analogy for future use! :)
Thanks for your GREAT videos! really well done!
Brilliant. Just wonderful content
No kidding, great videos! Finally, someone that doesn't present a bunch of formulas, I have those. Watched a recent video of classical musicians, instruments in hand and ready to go, listen to a basic theme. A blues musician started playing along, but the orchestra was baffled. No sheet music. I felt embarrassed for them. The blues guy "understood."
Damn, your ability to convey all of this knowledge in your videos is outstanding. But something I don't think you get praised enough for is your aesthetic- the lovely wood table, the clean drawings to accompany every explanation that helps the learner visualise all of these concepts, the little electronic components scattered around the edge of the screen... It's beautiful. your videos are so aesthetic
thanks, i appreciate it!
Thank you very much for your work! you really help to figure it all out!)) I wish there were more videos like this! Thank you so much))))
Well done ~ will be sharing this with my Introduction to Engineering students next quarter.
i‘m honored!
Hey man, the placement of components on the left and right side of the paper was a friggen excellent composition choice. The quality of the video is so high that it almosts looks like you are looking at a powerpoint with borders and art. It's fascinating.
thanks man, appreciate it!
This is superb. I can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. I'm sure it takes a great deal of time to develop and produce your videos. you have my gratitude. Very much looking forward to the continuation of this series. I got into electronics so that I might build my own filters, but have yet to find a sufficient resource to facilitate my achieving such a goal... Until now. Thank you again. And again... Several more times. :)
thanks, much appreciated!
Wooooow, I always wanted to how a Moog ladder worksss, this is perfect!
Very cool explained. I think you once said that you're not a professional, maybe that's why you are able to explain it so that amateurs can understand it. Before finding your channel, I often watched GreatScott but he sometime's too short cut with his explaination. More like, take this chip look in the data sheet that means we can do this and that and then it works, while you explain it really on the low level what I especially like because I find it easier to understand when I really can "see" (even if it's water analogy - that's certainly not always 100% physically correct but much much easier to understand for the normal person) what's going on in these thingies.
Please keep up the great work with these videos!
thanks, very glad you like the videos! and yeah, i mean i'm basically learning about most of these things as i make these videos - i guess that's why i'm being extra-beginner friendly!
@@MoritzKlein0 Which is a good thing. Thanks for doing this!
Thanks! Very nicely explained!
Amazing explanation!
I love your drawings. Your illustrations are far more clear and understandable than my electronics professor's scribbles. LOL. Thank you for your circuit explanations.
Wow fascinating analogy. That's about two undergraduate courses worth of material and I used to teach some of this. The high pass filter I would explain by the capacitor charging and discharging.
I actually just tried this. When I watched this, I wasn't actually thinking of making a filter, but I wanted to make a passive slew limiter for a MIDI to CV converter that I recently built as a DIY kit, and of course this works as a simple slew limiter too. A low-value resistor (around 100 Ohms) and a capacitor somewhere between 10 and 40 µF seems to work great to smooth out the edges of CV outputs which would otherwise have had 128 discrete values, making it sound very harsh and digital. So much easier than any other schematics I've found for slew limiters. Thanks again.
This is incredible