Low Pass Filter, frequency limit

I bought the Creative Pebbles Pro to have some safer monitoring option and while playing today I got a noise burst while accidently setting the frequency of the LPF Ugen to 90000 kHz. Can this result in instabilities or did I screw another parameter maybe?
Still, the Pebbles can get quite loud and luckily i didn`t have headphones on.

Will try to reproduce tomorrow at zero volume :grimacing:

Yes, that will blow up unless you’re running at 192 kHz.

The feedback cycles in infinite impulse response filters are unstable when the frequency gets too close to 0 or to the Nyquist frequency (half the sampling rate). How close seems to depends on rq – larger rq (wider filter), the further away you should stay from these boundaries. In general, cutoff.clip(20, 20000) is safe at 44.1 kHz and above.

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