Distortion Basics | Max/MSP Tutorial

There's more to distortion than cranking up the sound. In this video, I create soft and hard clipping distortion with some simple algorithms and play around with the different sounds that come out. D̵̏̿͝͝ḯ̴͕̑s̵̡̛͕̼ẗ̴̰̺̓̈́͝o̶͉̾̓͒̏r̸̲̱͚̣̀t̴̘̟͗í̸͉̤o̷͈̲̞͐n̷̬̗̞̽͐̆!̴͚͊̈́̕
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📜Paper on soft clipping algorithms: dafx.de/paper-...

[@animanoir]

Love it when there is some genuine math 🙏🙏

[@illegalgiant_]

this ROCKS. thanks. been diving into max and this is exactly what i’ve been looking for. bravo.

[@atillafiliz6591]

Another great tutorial, clear and to the point.

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Thanks for the Tutorial! Always enjoy these.

[@MGCaverly]

I have avoided watching this clip for a few weeks, cuz I thought ‘what’s so great about distorting a signal?’
I am very gradually learning Max/MSP, and am also constantly recovering from ‘cognitive over saturation‘.
This clip has been very useful. It is clearly explained, and well supported visually. Thank you very much!
Regards,
Mikey

[@MGCaverly]

I've been able to get nearly 20 minutes into this presentation before I start spinning-out. The algorithmic functions are sublime. Thank you, sir; delightful work!

[@xavierxeon]

thanks for the paper link! I really hope there will be a [codebox~] operator outside of gen in the future.

[@FRIMPONGOPONG]

Thank you for this great tutorial! Very helpful ❤

[@j58688grgrs]

Never hit sub so fast, amazing content! Question - looking at older MAX threads on distortion, folks talk about using look up tables to save CPU. Can you talk about these methods, especially with some of these more complex calculations?

[@henriquematias1986]

Beautiful! Thank you

[@justinhoffman1111]

Great Video!!