AvailableEffect

Drive

Add harmonics with a waveshaper.

@maru shared this effect so you can play it in your DAW, remix it or put it on your site.

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A stage of OSC-1. It works the same on its own page as it does in the chain, same parameters, same paths.

What it does

A simple waveshaping distortion with a wet/dry mix. It adds harmonics to whatever you send it, from a clean boost to a nearly square-wave collapse.

The idea

Drive pushes the signal into a smooth clipping curve and blends the result with the untouched signal. Because the clean path runs alongside the driven one, you can melt the body of a sound while keeping its attack intact: the classic parallel-distortion trick. It is a curve, not a model of any particular pedal or circuit.

Guide and controls

How it works.

The wet path uses the exact rational curve y=((1+k)x)/(1+k|x|), with k=Amount*100, evaluated through fixed 4x interpolation/FIR oversampling; a separate dry path and the wet path sum at the stage output.

This is a curve, not a circuit model. It is not a simulation of a particular pedal and does not claim to be one.

What would you make with Drive?

Describe what you want to make. Build it with the Studio agent.

Goes well with.

Prototype

A complete synth built from separate modules.

Building block

Bit reduction and sample-rate reduction for digital grit.

Prototype

Drive, tone, and bounded feedback delay.