Alexandre

i'd like to use overdrive to add harmonics to some melodic sounds, but when you test [overdrive~] with a simple cycle~ you get aliasing (see patch below). it, rather logically, sounds a bit like the "ideal rectangle" from the "rect~.maxhelp" patch.

Do you see ways to make an antialiased overdrive~ ?

Hi,
i'd like to use overdrive to add harmonics to some melodic sounds, but when you test [overdrive~] with a simple cycle~ you get aliasing (see patch below). it, rather logically, sounds a bit like the "ideal rectangle" from the "rect~.maxhelp" patch.

antialiased-overdrive

Is the max community really entirely devoted to aliased sounds esthetics ?

no ideas ?
Is the max community really entirely devoted to aliased sounds esthetics ? 

Yeah, aliasing sounds cool. What you could try is stick everything inside a poly~ an upsample everything with a factor two or four. It's all explained in the help file. Use the cross~ object before the out~'s.

thanks, i'm trying this, but why cross~ instead of lores~ or biquad~ ? is it less expensive ? shouldn't i use also a filter after the [in~] ?

thanks, i'm trying this, but why cross~ instead of lores~ or biquad~ ? is it less expensive ?   shouldn't i use also a filter after the [in~] ?


With cross~ this doesn't work because the ramp of the filter is too soft...

plus i had to filter just after the [in~] because it is not smoothed at all during the upsampling conversion, see patch below (open the poly)...

this works, and sounds nice but, wow, takes a lot of cpu... i did *8 upsampling but maybe *4 could be enough depanding on the sound.

also maybe i could find less cpu expensive than vb.cheby~ ?

I tryed this saturation test also at 96Khz, using 96Khz recordings, (which means upsampling at 8*96=768Khz), this sounds really nice!, it make me remember about my old warm sounding vinyls...

With cross~ this doesn't work because the ramp of the filter is too soft...
i used vb.cheby~ instead...
plus i had to filter just after the [in~] because it is not smoothed at all during the upsampling conversion, see patch below (open the poly)...
this works, and sounds nice but, wow, takes a lot of cpu...  i did *8 upsampling but maybe *4 could be enough depanding on the sound.

also maybe i could find less cpu expensive than vb.cheby~  ?

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let's try posting each .maxpat separately...

[Denied Mime] vb.cheby~.mxo.zip (11.3 KB)

[Denied Extension] play1.maxpat (21.6 KB)

[Denied Extension] satu-upb.maxpat (11.7 KB)

[Denied Extension] test-satu-upb.maxpat (11.8 KB)

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  [Denied Mime] vb.cheby~.mxo.zip (11.3 KB)
  [Denied Extension] play1.maxpat (21.6 KB)
  [Denied Extension] satu-upb.maxpat (11.7 KB)
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Antialiased overdrive~ ?