I wanted to ask what you guys use the band pass filter on your synths for? What techniques are there and what kind of sounds live from this filter type? I hardly use it and am wondering why or what I am missing.
Don’t use it that often, but I made a cool dub chord with 12db bandpass on my peak. A little bit of envelope modulation and some resonance. But I had to use less env mod than with a low pass filter.
I use it more and more, for sound that are in the middle frequencies obviously.
I like it with slight noise and rather fragile sounds, if I can call them so.
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I don’t use BP (or HP, Notch) nearly as much as LP or peak, but BP can be really useful for secondary bass lines, some acid or clav type sounds and leads.
BP can be pretty wild when lots of envelope or LFO mod to cutoff, can get nice “chewy” sounds.
Also pretty handy on drones, the resonance can be great for picking out out harmonics, again with judicious modulation.
I use it quite a bit for percussion sounds too.
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I like it for squelchy acid basslines, when other sounds already fill the low end.
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All the time for modulated synth stabs that go well on my style (House)
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If I want something to sound really nasty and nazal and horrible I’ll use a bandpass with resonance cranked.
If I just want something in the mids to sit and behave a bit better in the mix, I’ll use a bit of subtle bandpass to trim out the annoying bits.
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I like a band pass when I want to isolate a certain part of the sound.
In a sample of street sounds or a crowd where the full spectrum is present, a band pass can be really good to reduce the space it takes up in the mix.
Good for polyphony on the digitakt, it isolates each note so you can hear the others more clearly
Bandapass can be great on pads, I find.
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Yeah, otherwise the sound basically disappears 
I would be interested in hearing this and maybe picking your brain. I make house and technician myself.
Could one sum up the sound in a very little bit of mod env after finding the sweetspot, some key mod so the sound transports over the keys? Am I missing something?
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Band pass filters are cool.
I use them all the time, chords, pads, drums, bass, you name it.
Bandpass a drum loop to isolate frequencies you want (typically the mids), wobble the filter just a little bitz add distortion, mix that in with your main drums.
Modulated band pass filter into some reverb mixed with the dry signal = instalush (works really well on chords, pads, swirly atmospheric samples etc)
Run a simple PWM bass patch into two band pass filters, pan subtly left and right, slight LFO to filter = seriously chewy bass sounds.
My personaly preference is to go very easy on the resonance with band pass. Does depend on the filter though.
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Make me think it could be fun with A4 feedback.
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Lovely techniques, I’m excited to try these
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I recieved a Vermona Retroverb lancet for my birthday last year.
I was not expecting the bandpass filter to be so useful, and so musical.
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I love BP filters and usually use them for low-mid freq sounds with inverted envelope so that the sound gets thinner towards the end. BP with a bit of resonance is a cool way of finding tones that would otherwise be masked in all of the low rumble.
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Love me some band pass
I think of it as a funky wah pedal…which in essence, it is exactly that…
I sometimes double track a bass sound on the A4 and AR that has loads of bass content but also interesting movement / pwm / or nice distortion in the mids and tops. I just copy paste the sound and pattern. and treat each separately.
I low pass the first track only allowing the sub bass frequencies through, then for the second track
I let the band pass chew on the highs and mids with loads of Elektron sequencer LFO controlling the cut off.
with the Digis I automate the base width closing the high and low point together, to give me a Band Pass with a moving Q if i want… just as awesome…
Edit: Q=Centre Frequency divided by the Bandwidth…because you can increase the gap between the high and low of the base width filter you can increase the bandwidth or Q of the BP filter…
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I use band pass filter some times for bass lines and every times for snares. I like it a lot.
Trying with short noise + big feedback in resonance + key tracking on the bp Filter + fm lFo.
Its good variation 808 tom or bass or drum.
On OT, the filter is by nature band pass, and I find it really pertinent to extract the most interesting frequencies from the extremes you can reach thrpugh experiments.
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