comedydave

I have a groove~ object that is playing a aiff file. Whats the easiest (and cheapest!) way of being able to manipulate the bass, mid and tone?

changing-bass-mid-treble

>I have a groove~ object that is playing a aiff file. Whats the 

>easiest (and cheapest!) way of being able to manipulate the bass, 

not sure but since some days i am trying with cascade~ ot peqbank~

>I have a groove~ object that is playing a aiff file. Whats the 
>easiest (and cheapest!) way of being able to manipulate the bass, 
>mid and tone?

not sure but since some days  i am trying with cascade~ ot peqbank~

Route your signal to three filtergraphs~ and you can fiddle with the levels (I like the resonant setting). These fiddlings can be recorded with the mtr object (which everyone should know about in Max, by the way...). Filtergraph is an essential and wonderful object.

Cascade~ is great too, though a bit trickier to deal with individual filters sometimes, particularly if you are recording parameter changes.

Also you could use faders to control gain levels of various frequencies -- they would be values sent into the gain inputs of filtergraph~. You could have a knob to set the filter frequency. After all, why have a static EQ when you can have a parametric one??

like this, maybe, using filtercoeff. adjust Freq. and Q to your needs...

You can use FFT (fast fourier transforms) to split the aiff file into frequency bands, like a crossover unit. Then you can adjust the gain on each band and re-synthesise the complete sound, or you could use seejayjames' approach and route the different bands into a filtergraph and alter the frequency levels with that.

Changing bass, mid + treble