Distortion / soft clipping

owingsbj / ModSynth

A modular synthesizer for Android

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Distortion / soft clipping #13

Closed riban-bw closed 5 years ago

riban-bw commented 5 years ago

When the soft clipping feature was enhanced to provide a more accurate representation of analogue amplifier clipping, the feature was renamed, "Distortion" which I don't think is as descriptive (or evocative) as "Soft Clipping". With "Distortion" disabled the output can be driven into hard clipping (distortion) where as with "Distortion" enabled the output is limited with a softer distortion. I would recommend reverting to the title "Soft Clipping".

owingsbj commented 5 years ago

Okay, I'll change it back to Soft Clip. This setting makes the amp module simulate a tube amplifier. It will distort on any value beyond +/- 0.5 and falls off asymptotically, like in this graph:

owingsbj commented 5 years ago

5.9 is delivered, so closing this issue. Reopen if it's still a problem.