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    SOUND DESIGN: SATURATION AND WAVEFOLDING

    Mar 24, 2020 3 minutes
    By Francis Preve

    Francis Preve is one of the industry’s most prolific sound designers. Find out more at francispreve.com

    Distortion and overdrive are normally considered the domain of guitarists (and 303 lovers), but in the context of sound design, they can be a truly powerful resource for transforming simple waveforms — especially sine and triangle shapes — into pretty complex tone generators.

    In fact, much of what we call the “West Coast” sound is derived from Buchla’s wavefolding tools, which are quite similar to distortion circuits, with the added twist of inverting the tops

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