Asymmetric Distortion/Limiter

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knutolai
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Asymmetric Distortion/Limiter

Post by knutolai »

Simple and interesting distortion block:

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rdax	adcl, -1		; Read & invert input
skp	GEZ,	1	; If neg
sof	0.01, 0		; Soft cut negative wave segment
sof	-2, 0		; Make up gain loss, fix phase
;
rdax	adcl, -1		; Crossmixer
mulx	pot0
rdax	adcl, 1
;
wrax	dacl, 0		; output, clear acc
Only one phase of the sound is clipped. Could need some sort of offset to retain headroom, but works fine for me.
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