On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, derek holzer wrote:
In PD you could use waveshaping, either by table-lookup or by using [expr~] if you're one of those mathematician types that haunt this list ;-)
Most notably Miller Smith Puckette, whose doctoral thesis was a Probability Theory paper titled:
"Shannon Entropy and the Central Limit Theorem"
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/thesis.ps
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.
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