Cognate Kinetic

Cognate Kinetic - an envelope filter that works with you, not against you.

An easy-to-use envelope filter for classic downward and upward funky or synthy filter sweeps. Features intelligent auto-sensitivity that responds to your playing level while still offering dynamic range when you dig in.

Envelope filters have a reputation for being fiddly - too sensitive in one room, unresponsive in the next, different every time you change bass or adjust your playing.

Kinetic's intelligent auto-sensitivity solves this quietly in the background, keeping your sweeps responsive and predictable regardless of input level or playing dynamics, while still rewarding you when you dig in.

Set your base frequency and you're most of the way there. Range is bipolar - sweep it one way for a downward filter, the other for upward, with the depth of the effect scaling as you go. Speed morphs the envelope character from smooth and flowing to snappy and zappy in a single sweep.

If you want to go deeper, Kinetic offers Resonance, Filter Type, Blend and a Smooth control – gives you everything from silky, warm filter movement to tearing, laser-like resonant sweeps. Add an LFO for subtle auto-wah or dubstep wub, or switch to sample & hold for random robot bleeps. Two filter designs cover the classic territory: a multimode OTA circuit in the tradition of the great envelope filter pedals, available in low pass, band pass and high pass, and the Moog Minimoog ladder filter for that unmistakable resonant bite.

Classic funk to full synth bass - Kinetic is energy in motion.

Channels

Mono in / mono out

CPU

1.2%

Version

1.2.1 · 07/07/2026

What's new

The Frequency knob now shows the true filter cutoff across its whole range.

Manual

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