Write your own Wah-Wah plug-in: filter design continued!

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In the last post, GITEC-member Helmut Keller discussed the implementation of digital state-variable filters. In a continuation of the theme, this time he goes all-out practical – at least for those computer-minded ones among us who are not adverse to do a teenie-weenie bit of diving into software …

With the given instructions it is easy to program a plugin for our DAWs that takes care of Wah-Wah effects under control of a midi-control pedal, and as a bonus will also yield a switchable corresponding volume control on top of that.

The Wah-parameters can be customized so as to mimic all kinds of traditional Wah-types, and of course also to go way beyond the usual …

Here’s Helmut’s article plus the code he is providing (as a starting point for the Wah to be implemented). The zip-file will ensure that you receive both items in combination:

Wah-Wah Plugin

Happy programming, and merry Wah-ing, then!

 

 

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