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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I was browsing gearslutz and someone mentioned that they do not like the "open Curtis sound". Now they might be referring to the sound produced when the filter is <em>mostly</em> (but not all the way) open but that made me wonder if what I had always assumed to be true is really true: that when the filter is 100% open (and the filter env is not negative), we are hearing the VCO(s) as if the synth did not have a filter (a bypass).</p> <p>When the filter is wide open it's letting through the whole spectrum of frequencies, but is it still "etching" or effecting the shape of that sound in any way?</p> <p>I figure it's either analogous to a normal, water hose being open or closed. When a garden hose is all the way open, you just get a unfettered stream of water.</p> <p>Or is it like a showerhead? When it's all the way open it sprays out the water in a distinct pattern.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gizzardgullet"> /u/gizzardgullet </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/7rbnfn/beginner_question_when_a_filter_is_all_the_way/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/7rbnfn/beginner_question_when_a_filter_is_all_the_way/">[comments]</a></span>
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