Hi Jay,
I think it works like this if you want to cascade the filters together into a single, sos filter.
%% Filter_1
h = fdesign.bandpass('N,F3dB1,F3dB2', 10, 100e3, 120e3, 400e3);
Hd = design(h, 'butter');
Hd = convert(Hd, 'df2sos');
sos1 = Hd.sosMatrix;
g1 = prod(Hd.ScaleValues)
%% Filter_2
[be,ae] = ellip(4,1,40,0.2);
f = 0:0.001:0.2;
g = grpdelay(be,ae,f,2);
a = max(g)-g;
[num,den]=iirgrpdelay(8, f, [0 0.2], a);
[sos2,g2] = tf2sos(num,den);
%% Filter_3 is the combined filter
sos3 = [sos1;sos2];
g3 = g1*g2
Frequency response Hd compared to sos1
[hd,wd] = freqz(Hd);
h1 = freqz(sos1,wd); h1 = h1*g1;
figure
subplot(211);plot(wd,db(abs([hd h1])));grid
subplot(212);plot(wd,180/pi*angle([hd h1]));grid
Frequency response of sos2 and sos3
h2 = freqz(sos2,wd); h2 = h2*g2;
h3 = freqz(sos3,wd); h3 = h3*g3;
Compare response of product to the product of the responses
figure
subplot(211),plot(wd,db(abs([hd.*h2 h3]))),grid
subplot(212);plot(wd,180/pi*angle([hd.*h2 h3])),grid
It appears that sos3,g3 captures the combined response of the the cascade of the original Hd and sos2.
However, a standard sos filter has the poles and zeros paired in a particular way and the sections in a particular order. It's likely that sos3 does not meet these rules. If this is important, one option would be to convert sos3 to another form and then convert back to sos
[z3,p3,k3] = sos2zp(sos3,g3);
[sos4,g4] = zp2sos(z3,p3,k3);
[g3 g4]
[sos3 sos4]
The pole/zero pairing came out different as did the section ordering. But sos4 is, mathematically, the same filter as sos3.
h4 = freqz(sos4,wd); h4 = h4*g4;
figure
subplot(211),plot(wd,db(abs([h3 h4]))),grid
subplot(212);plot(wd,180/pi*angle([h3 h4])),grid
Forward filtering a signal through Hd, and then filtering the output of Hd through sos2 might be tricky. You'd have to figure out how to get the final states out of the Hd object, and the figure out how to transform those states as initial conditions in the filtering with sos2. Keep in mind that sosfilt, as might be used for the sos2 filtering, doesn't even accept initial conditions as an input argument.
