They basically work by sweeping away more and more low or high frequencies. The nice whooshing noise that comes with good filters is resonance or Q. To much resonance or Q sounds ear piercingly horrible and no resonance sounds just like a DJ EQ. (Q is a measure of the width of the frequency range altered by a peaking filter. The more Q, the sharper the peak)
Using Lives Auto Filter plug-in is one way to go about it. However, many people are using EQ8 to produce a nicer sounding filter sweep. I tried it and found that I liked it better than Auto Filter.
An alternative is the DJM800 emulations. These allow one knob to produce a low pass filter to one side and a high pass filter to the other side. The problem with these is that any midi knob has only 128 divisions. Dividing this by 2 leaves 64 divisions and I found that this left me with a filter that had to be operated like I was trying to wind my watch.
Download Resonant Filter using EQ8
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