parabolic saturator

malc · 12 Apr 2005

Great stuff ik!

Malc.

Shifrin · 12 Apr 2005

Thanks very much ik! It's getting lile Christmas every day here now with new things being posted all the time 😀

Shif.

KLG · 12 Apr 2005

Thanks! I'm an absolute beginner and this code looks like something I may be able to understand...

Anyone mind explaining the last line of the code? Is it equivalent to "If temp1>=2 then out=temp2 else out=temp3"? Why use 2? Isn't the range of the polyin limited to -1 to 1?

Tom7777 · 12 Apr 2005

Thanks

stefan · 12 Apr 2005

KLG wrote: Thanks! I'm an absolute beginner and this code looks like something I may be able to understand...

Anyone mind explaining the last line of the code? Is it equivalent to "If temp1>=2 then out=temp2 else out=temp3"? Why use 2? Isn't the range of the polyin limited to -1 to 1?

yep.

KLG · 12 Apr 2005

stefancrs wrote: KLG wrote: Thanks! I'm an absolute beginner and this code looks like something I may be able to understand...

Anyone mind explaining the last line of the code? Is it equivalent to "If temp1>=2 then out=temp2 else out=temp3"? Why use 2? Isn't the range of the polyin limited to -1 to 1?

yep.

Thx stefancrs. Then in what occasion would temp1 be bigger than 2? I know it should be something very simple... but I just can't get it...

malc · 12 Apr 2005

Hi KLG,

Welcome to the forum!

Stefan beat me to it 🙂 As he said you are spot on with your interpretation of the last line of code.

KLG wrote: Isn't the range of the polyin limited to -1 to 1?

There is no range limit for Poly data as such. The built in oscillators will output signals in the range -1 to 1 but if you play two notes at the same time and add them you'll get a potential range of -2 to 2.

There's no built in limiting to SynthMaker, this is left open so that you have full control over what happens in your synths and effects.

[EDIT] You posted again while I was posting but I think this covers your question, if not let me know and I'll try and beat Stefan to it this time 😉

lalo · 12 Apr 2005

great stuff istvan!

KLG · 12 Apr 2005

malc wrote: [EDIT] You posted again while I was posting but I think this covers your question, if not let me know and I'll try and beat Stefan to it this time 😉

Thx marc, I get it now!

ik · 12 Apr 2005

Hi! Thanks for the feeback! ... I don't want to pretend I understand the 'heart' of the code ... 😉 It was ported from SynC Modular, here is the original "code":

[The original was made by 'Dr.SynC' (now with NI to develop Reactor 5 ) 😠] ik.

Tom7777 · 12 Apr 2005

Thanks Ik, great work, it has been very interesting comparing the two versions to see the differences between the two. Thanks for all your examples 🙂

unkargherth · 12 Apr 2005

A "code-only" version, with some added goodies

And here is the link to schematic

EDIT: here iis the code for those having problems with the links

polyin in; polyin sat; polyin thres; polyin depth; polyout out; float tmp0,tmp1,tmp2,tmp3;

// multiply in by sat level ( 0..1) tmp0=5*sat*in;

//take the absolute value tmp1=(tmp0>=0)&tmp0+(tmp0<0)&(-1*tmp0); tmp2=(tmp0>=0)&thres+(tmp0<0)&(-1*thres);

tmp3=tmp0*(1-tmp1/4)*thres;

out=(tmp1>=2)&tmp2+(tmp1<2)&tmp3;

out=depth*out+(1-depth)*in;

Shifrin · 12 Apr 2005

Link doesn't seem to work for me, neither does the screenshot...

I'm interested in the 'goodies' 😉

Shif.

stefan · 12 Apr 2005

Shifrin wrote: Link doesn't seem to work for me, neither does the screenshot...

I'm interested in the 'goodies' 😉

Shif.

That's weird, both work here.

Shifrin · 12 Apr 2005

Really odd, can't get to www.terra.es either, from Firefox or IE. Maybe jorge or malc could host it? I want the goodies 🙂

Shif.

malc · 12 Apr 2005

No problem:

[old link]

Shifrin · 12 Apr 2005

Cheers malc, got it now 😀

Shif.