Audiokinetic Wwise Knowledge Base

Associating Low Pass Filter Values with their Corresponding Cutoff Frequencies

In order to save CPU usage at runtime and to use the same model for low pass filter that we are using for Volume, Pitch and LFE (which is relative through the hierarchy), the low pass filter property has been “normalized” between 0 and 100.

Imagine a sound structure with a sound and a container where:

  • LPF on Sound = 15
  • LPF on Container = 30

In this scenario, the final LPF that will be applied at runtime is 45, which represents a cutoff frequency of 1922 Hz.

Using “real” cutoff frequency values for the low pass filter in Wwise would have looked like this:

  • LPF on Sound = 13500 Hz
  • LPF on Container = 7000 Hz

In this example, defining the final cutoff frequency at runtime would have been unclear.

The following table associates Wwise LPF values with their corresponding Cutoff Frequencies:

LPF Value: Cutoff Frequency (Hz):
0 20000
1 19567
2 19133
3 18700
4 18267
5 17833
6 17400
7 16967
8 16533
9 16100
10 15667
11 15233
12 14800
13 14367
14 13933
15 13500
16 13067
17 12633
18 12200
19 11767
20 11333
21 10900
22 10467
23 10033
24 9600
25 9167
26 8733
27 8300
28 7867
29 7433
30 7000
31 6422
32 5892
33 5405
34 4959
35 4550
36 4174
37 3829
38 3513
39 3223
40 2957
41 2713
42 2489
43 2283
44 2095
45 1922
46 1763
47 1618
48 1484
49 1361
50 1249
51 1146
52 1051
53 964
54 885
55 812
56 745
57 683
58 627
59 575
60 528
61 484
62 444
63 407
64 374
65 343
66 315
67 289
68 265
69 243
70 223
71 204
72 188
73 172
74 158
75 145
76 133
77 122
78 112
79 103
80 94
81 86
82 79
83 73
84 67
85 61
86 56
87 51
88 47
89 43
90 40
91 36
92 33
93 31
94 28
95 26
96 24
97 22
98 20
99 18
100 17




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Last Updated
4th o March, 2008

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