[PD] Big distortion ?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, hard off wrote:

> i always just multiply the signal by 10 and then use clip~ to bring it
> back down to size.
> 
> [inlet~]
> |
> [*~ 10]
> |
> [clip~ -0.05 0.5]
> |
> [outlet~]
> 
> not clever or authentic, but will destroy the soundwaves.

[clip~ -0.5 0.5] gives a more balanced sound and its output doesn't have 
much DC compared to -0.05 0.5.

for a more analog sound, replace the clip~ by some kind of [expr~
tanh($v1)], which is clearly my favourite. It's CPU-expensive so it could 
deserve a [tabread4].

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