saturator "curves"

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saturator "curves"

Postby DISEMBOWELLED » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:56 pm

ok so on a lot of distortions/saturators the sound is determined by a "curve" that you change the shape of.

Can anyone explain how this actually works and how to interpret the curve, coz currently i pretty much just set random points anywhere.

Haven't seen any topics on this before so thought I'd ask...

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Postby rokhausen » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:50 pm

it's been a while, so you may want to check up on this...

x-axis = incoming amplitude values
y-axis = outgoing amplitude values

dependant on the "curve" of the saturator/waveshaper, an incoming sample (like, the little kind, not the amen break you keep in a folder which is made up of thousands of little samples) is pinged for its amplitude value along the x-axis ("indexing"), and output at a new amplitude designated by the value of the curve at the y-axis

there's probably more to it than that

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Postby DISEMBOWELLED » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:10 pm

hey thanks for the reply. that kinda makes sense. so, its all to do with amplitude? nothing to do with frequency...?

could anyone else shed some light on this?

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