Retro 80s Tape Wow & Flutter with faust

[Morphoice]

@griffinboy it does become mono btw when drive is below around 0.1, what would be a good range for drive/saturation and width to offer the user? clearly the extreme values are a nono

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

hmm it's not done that on my machine.
I wonder if I've given you a bad version, I've done a lot of tinkering with that script over time.

The default settings should be left as is! Ignore all parameters on the actual unit apart from saturation which can be adjusted

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

Ah sorry not limiter node.

I meant Math.clip node

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

To find the right place to clip, use a hise Math.clip node before the hysteresis, and a simple gain node before that. Now drive the gain node into the hysteresis at somepoint it will collapse. Lower the Clip node until it no longer collapses.

Node graph:

Simple Gain

Math.clip

Oversample 4x - JG_Tape_Model -

send a sine wave into it and visualise using fft

[Morphoice]

@griffinboy there's also a significant gain reduction even without limiting, which I guess is fine, I wonder if it would make more sense to implement the JG tape model with a dry/wet knob or give the user actual control over the drive/saturation

[Morphoice]

@griffinboy alright, you got it. A sine wave! - me searching for songs to run through this thing, when it could be so simple

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

You can do that using the wet dry scriptnode template.

It's in the list of nodes.

The Node I've given you is still under development. It does work but yeah, all the messyness is not tucked away. It does work - But it's not a neat solution until I release the official version

[Morphoice]

@griffinboy no worries!it's amazing that you got it this far already!

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

Let me know if it works as expected. You should see harmonics coming from the sine wave the more you boost volume into the node (using the simple gain node)

The oversampling likely got rid of the instability. I mostly find issues with stability on 2x oversampling and so it needs the clipper for when boosting > 30db into the node you get issues.

Sine wave, and drum loops are the best ways to test distorting effects.
As you can clearly see the results.

[Morphoice]

@griffinboy works like a charm. Plenty of great sounding harmonics and no collaps. compensated for the gain loss and wrapped everything in a dry_wet_mixer

thank you again so much!!

[Lindon]

@griffinboy nice work!