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## distort1

distort1 — Modified hyperbolic tangent distortion.

## Description

Implementation of modified hyperbolic tangent distortion. distort1 can be used to generate wave shaping distortion based on a modification of the tanh function.

exp(asig * (shape1 + pregain)) - exp(asig * (shape2 - pregain))
aout = ---------------------------------------------------------------
exp(asig * pregain) + exp(-asig * pregain)

## Syntax

    ares distort1 asig, kpregain, kpostgain, kshape1, kshape2[, imode]

## Initialization

imode (Csound version 5.00 and later only; optional, defaults to 0) -- scales kpregain, kpostgain, kshape1, and kshape2 for use with audio signals in the range -32768 to 32768 (imode=0), -0dbfs to 0dbfs (imode=1), or disables scaling of kpregain and kpostgain and scales kshape1 by kpregain and kshape2 by -kpregain (imode=2).

## Performance

asig -- is the input signal.

kpregain -- determines the amount of gain applied to the signal before waveshaping. A value of 1 gives slight distortion.

kpostgain -- determines the amount of gain applied to the signal after waveshaping.

kshape1 -- determines the shape of the positive part of the curve. A value of 0 gives a flat clip, small positive values give sloped shaping.

kshape2 -- determines the shape of the negative part of the curve.

## Examples

Here is an example of the distort1 opcode. It uses the file distort1.csd.

Example 238. Example of the distort1 opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>
    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    -odac     ;;;RT audio out
    ;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if RT audio input is needed too
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ; -o distort1.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    ksmps = 32
    nchnls = 2
    0dbfs = 1

    gadist init 0

    instr 1
      iamp = p4
      ifqc = cpspch(p5)
      asig pluck iamp, ifqc, ifqc, 0, 1
      gadist = gadist + asig
    endin

    instr 50
      kpre init p4
      kpost init p5
      kshap1 init p6
      kshap2 init p7
      aout distort1 gadist, kpre, kpost, kshap1, kshap2, 1

      outs aout, aout

      gadist = 0
    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>

    ;   Sta  Dur  Amp    Pitch
    i1  0.0  3.0  0.5  6.00
    i1  0.5  2.5  0.5  7.00
    i1  1.0  2.0  0.5  7.07
    i1  1.5  1.5  0.5  8.00

    ;   Sta  Dur  PreGain PostGain Shape1 Shape2
    i50 0    4      2       .5       0      0
    e

    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

## Credits

Author: Hans Mikelson
December 1998

New in Csound version 3.50

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