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Old 4th November 2008   #72
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Originally Posted by chrisj View Post
It's not directly harmonic content, it's just an effect of the transfer function. Like you can produce harmonics (when you input a sine wave) using Chebyshev functions... inverse saturation is just like taking a wave and saturating it, but backwards. The peaks remain hot but the quieter places on the transfer function become even quieter. The reason people don't do this is it sounds like crap, but it also causes the apparent sound source to appear farther away- has some uses as a building block. I'm going to revise Shelves and hopefully I can produce demos that will make this more apparent. I'm picturing doing a mid-suck effect using this- ought to do nice things.
That would be useful for midi orchestral tracks, and other stuff.
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