kink~
Description
kink~ takes phasor~ values and distorts them according to a slope factor. If the input times the slope is less than 0.5, that value is output. Otherwise, a complentary slope is used, equal to 0.5 at the same input value but equal to 1 when the input is 1. This creates a bend or "kink" in the phase waveform when the slope is not equal to 1.
Examples
Discussion
If you feed the output of kink~ into a cycle~, the result is that the first part (before the kink) of the wavetable is scanned much more quickly than the second part (after the kink).
Arguments
slope-multiplier [float]
Sets the default slope multiplier. If a signal is attached to the right inlet, this argument is ignored.
Attributes
Common Box Attributes
Messages
int
Arguments
float
Arguments
signal
In right inlet: The multiplier that affects the slope of the output between an output (Y) value of 0 and 0.5. After the output reaches 0.5, the waveform will increase to 1 so that the entire output moves from 0 to 1 in the same period of time as the input. A slope multiplier of 1(the default) produces no distortion Slope multipliers below 1 have a slower rise to 0.5 than the input, and slope multipliers above 1 have a faster rise to 0.5 than the input.
Output
signal
The output of kink~ should be fed to the right inlet of cycle~ (at zero frequency) to produce a distorted sine wave (a technique known as phase distortion synthesis). As the slope multiplier in the right inlet of kink~ deviates from 1, additional harmonics are introduced into the waveform output of cycle~. If the slope multiplier is rapidly increased and then decreased using a line~, the output of cycle~ may resemble an attack portion of an instrumental sound.
See Also
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| phasor~ | |
| triangle~ |