Ok, well, i didn't expect that many replies! I have tried Martin's patch, it sounds great. I have also tried the help patch with chebyshev polynomials, which sounds amazingly close to the old Roger Mayer Octavia (the one Jimi Hendrix used, as on Band of Gypsys). I mean, I was really surprised to hear how close the two sounds are. So that's a very cool thing for me to know!
Now please, could someone tell me how this works? Like this tan distortion, this table that switches from 0 to 1 with a variably soft transition, what is this supposed to model, and what does it do to the raw waveform? I'd like to try the sigmoid function but i don't really understand the way the whole thing works. Also, i'm assuming the size of the table matters. Miller's Chebyshev table in the help patch is 129 points wide, i guess the sound would improve if i made it larger, wouldn't it?
This is all very exciting for me right now! I always thought distortion could not be properly modelised, but the stuff i've tried today sounds pretty good to me.
Thanks!
Pierre
2010/9/12 Kim Cascone kim@anechoicmedia.com
couldn't locate the Smeck.pd download on the link posted for Miller's page but here is the direct link in case you couldn't find it: http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/smeck/latest/smeck-01.ziphttp://crca.ucsd.edu/%7Emsp/smeck/latest/smeck-01.zip
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