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foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:23 pm

Natural Attack (download)

This is an effect with several stages of waveshaping, but it starts with a "poisoned" filter -- a one-pole LPF whose state is "poisoned" by the output of all the other stages, which can get pretty strange depending on what they're doing.

There's your basic DC bias, which affects everything else (especially "poison") and which clunks heavily back to zero when the input is zero.

There's a "claw" waveshaper which pulls the "front" side of waves (when they're sloping away from zero) outward, at a rate dependent on their current value -- so it adds amplitude-dependent sidebands, and can sound somewhat like ring modulation, like a sort of zippery decay, or sometimes it resonates with this downward cascading thing of beauty. It really depends on what it's fed.

There's a "bite" waveshaper which affects the "back" side of waves, and acts as a gentle dark-ish fuzz or a brighter exciter.

There's a basic saturated volume boost, which interacts very heavily with the "poison" stage.

And because it was necessary, there's some code to rein in values that go out of range. There's no true DC offset filter though, and I'd recommend a shelving filter or EQ of some kind afterward (you might want to roll off highs too anyway).

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:55 pm

omg

I'll check it out

edit: tried it, wow, this is hands down the best sounding fuzz for guitar I've ever heard in software, just using drive and claw parameters. Very mainstream nice sounding.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:15 pm

Cool, I'm glad it was useful

wakax · Post by **wakax** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:25 pm

thanks for sharing your experiments with us!:)

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:05 pm

if you release anything new, it should do stuff that other things already do or we won't know what it is

so remember, newness, but without the risk and unfamiliarity and pesky challenge.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:55 pm

xoxos wrote:if you release anything new, it should do stuff that other things already do or we won't know what it is

so remember, newness, but without the risk and unfamiliarity and pesky challenge.

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:04 pm

Very cool!

Thanks!

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:38 pm

Cool piece of kit this...gonna use it on the minibrute....

218 · Post by **218** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 4:55 pm

This one is very cool! I really like it! Thank you:D

NB: SplitDelay it also very good! Cant wait to see what you come up with next

Natural Attack - oddball waveshaping distortion with "poisoned" filter