Q Gain compensation

IvnOs's icon

Hi.
At first sorry for my Eng.
I'm working on an additively subtractive synth based on noise pocessing. At this moment i have a problem with gain compensation by increasing Q.
To tell in simple words: when i'm raising Q very high, the volume drops very low.
To make a calculation is not very hard for me, but i really can't figure it out what formula should i use as base.
Could anybody please help me?

If needed i'll post everything you want, from my patch.

Roman Thilenius's icon

you didnt say what "Q" refers to.

i assume we are talking about a biquad filter.

if you have biquad lowpasses in serial you would simply add the Q values: 2 filters with a Q of 0.4 each will sound similar to one at 0.8, and the Q values should be limited at 0.4999 each.

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IvnOs's icon

Thanks for response =)
But my problem also is that i'm using Q values from 0.2 to 500.

A little bit of my insane thoughts.
At this moment i have 16 biquad BP filters. I understand that equal gain of filters i will get by dividing incoming signal on sum of all gain parameters for every filter. And asi understand his is not the main priority for me now.