2 Wave shaping things¶
- Author or source: Frederic Petrot
- Created: 2002-03-20 01:12:01
notes¶
Makes nice saturations effects that can be easilly computed using cordic
First using a atan function:
y1 using k=16
max is the max value you can reach (32767 would be a good guess)
Harmonics scale down linealy and not that fast
Second using the hyperbolic tangent function:
y2 using k=2
Harmonics scale down linealy very fast
code¶
1 2 3 | y1 = (max>>1) * atan(k * x/max)
y2 = max * th(x/max)
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Comments¶
- Date: 2006-06-26 01:12:05
- By: ten.labolgcbs@rohtlabi
Why are you calling decompiled script code?BALTHOR
- Date: 2013-01-18 02:20:59
- By: moc.liamtoh@niffumtohrepus
Yeah, atan & tanh, and really any sigmoid function, can create decent overdrive sound if
oversampled and eq'ed properly. I've used them in some of my modelers w/ good results. For
a more realistic sound, two half-wave soft clippers in series will add duty-cycle modulation
and a transfer curve similar to 3/2 tube power curve. Something like:
if(x < 0) y = -A * tanh(B * x); followed immediately by: if(y >= 0) y = -A * tanh(B * y);
Don't forget to invert each output (-A * tanh). Coefficients A & B are left to the designer.
I got this technique after reading a paper discussing a hardware implementation of this type
of circuit used in Carvin amps, here: http://www.trueaudio.com/at_eetjlm.htm (original link at
www.simulanalog.org)