Soft clip

Sharp ridges, smoothed by the wind.

Level-compensated tanh saturation.

● Freeorg.sournd.distortion.soft-clip

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Details

Engine id: org.sournd.distortion.soft-clip
Category: Distortion
Type: Saturation, waveshaper
Licence: Free (Apache-2.0)
Version: 1.0.0
Parameters: 1
Latency: none
Tail: 0 s
Sidechain input: no
Channels: mono or stereo

Parameters

The id is the C ABI parameter id and the JUCE parameter id (as a decimal string).

Id	Key	Name	Min	Max	Default	Unit	Taper
0	`drive`	Drive	1	20	1	x	log

How it is made

Original sOURnd utility: normalised hyperbolic-tangent waveshaper.

CMake

cmake

juce_add_module(path/to/sournd_engine)
target_include_directories(MyPlugin PRIVATE path/to/include)
target_link_libraries(MyPlugin PRIVATE sournd_engine path/to/libsournd_cabi.a)

Three lines. Full steps: JUCE quick start.

C++ (JUCE)

cpp

#include <sournd_engine/sournd_engine.h>

sournd::SourndEngine engine { "org.sournd.distortion.soft-clip" };
juce::AudioProcessorValueTreeState parameters { *this, nullptr, "Parameters",
    sournd::SourndEngineParameters::createLayout (engine) };
sournd::SourndEngineParameters bridge { engine, parameters };

// prepareToPlay
engine.prepare ({ sampleRate, (juce::uint32) maximumBlock, 2 });
bridge.prepare (sampleRate);
setLatencySamples ((int) engine.latency());

// processBlock
bridge.apply ((uint32_t) buffer.getNumSamples());
juce::dsp::AudioBlock<float> block { buffer };
engine.process (juce::dsp::ProcessContextReplacing<float> { block });

// get/setStateInformation: hold getCallbackLock() around saveState / loadState,
// so state work never overlaps processBlock (full example: /docs/juce/)

Plain C

sournd_engine *e = NULL;
if (sournd_engine_create("org.sournd.distortion.soft-clip", &e) == SOURND_OK) {
    sournd_engine_prepare(e, 48000.0, 512);
    sournd_engine_set_param(e, 0, 1); /* Drive */
    sournd_engine_process(e, in, out, 2, frames);
    sournd_engine_destroy(e);
}

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Add the sournd engine org.sournd.distortion.soft-clip to my JUCE plugin. Follow https://sournd.com/docs/juce/index.md
and the engine reference at https://sournd.com/engines/soft-clip/index.md. Expose every parameter through APVTS.