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Distortion

From gentle warmth to controlled destruction.

Six nodes that add harmonics, fold waveforms, crush bits, and push audio past where it was sitting. Saturator (Native) and Soft Clipper (Native) are the analog-style colourings — small additions of harmonic content that warm a buffer up without shouting. Distortion (Native) is the louder cousin, with multiple clipping algorithms for aggressive shaping. BitCrusher reduces bit depth and sample rate for lo-fi, retro, and glitch textures — the SP-1200’s voice if you push it. Wavefolder reflects waveform peaks back on themselves the way West Coast modular synths do, generating overtones that linear distortion can’t reach. Harmonic Shaper takes a different angle entirely: explicit per-harmonic control via Chebyshev polynomials, so you can dial in exactly how much H1, H2, H3, and so on the chain produces.

Nodes

  • BitCrusher — Bit depth and sample rate reduction for lo-fi effects
  • Wavefolder — West Coast-style wavefolding for complex harmonic generation
  • Harmonic Shaper — Chebyshev polynomial harmonic generation - precise harmonic control
  • Soft Clipper (Native) — Native C++ soft clipper - anti-aliased waveshaping with ADAA
  • Saturator (Native) — Native C++ saturator - analog-modeled harmonic coloring
  • Distortion (Native) — Native C++ distortion - aggressive waveshaping with cabinet sim

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