[PD] mathematician types (was: Big distortion ?)

[Chris McCormick]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:56:31PM +0200, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: [PD] mathematician types (was: Big distortion ?)
> 
> And about waveshaping, let me say that, for "big distortion", in addition
> to the tanh(x) and atan(x)*2/pi functions that I may have previously
> mentioned, x/sqrt(1+x*x) and erf(x) are quite cool. They aren't
> particularly modeling the behaviour of analog amps nor speaker membranes,
> but still, they're rather simple functions that appear everywhere in
> science.

These are great; thank you!

Chris.

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