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Auto Filter Controls Explorer

Ableton Live device

Every DAW has a filter; this one is Ableton Live's Auto Filter device. The concepts (cutoff frequency, slope, resonance) are the same wherever you find them.

Drag a cable from the floating box to a coloured zone below the image to learn what that control does.

Ableton Live Auto Filter effect interface showing filter type, slope, frequency, resonance and sidechain controls
ASidechain
BFilter Type
CSlope (12/24)
DFrequency
EResonance
Advanced
Foundation

What you learned

  • ✓Identify each control on the Auto Filter interface by name and location
  • ✓Explain the function of filter type, slope, frequency and resonance
  • ✓Describe how low-pass and high-pass filters shape a signal