How would I soft-clip a sine wave?

[tomVcassidy]

Hello,

My goal is to generate both a hard-clipped and soft-clipped sine wave.

The hard-clipping is fine. I simply converted the dynamic data type to an array and fed it into a Coerce and In Range, where the limits were set at what I wanted to clip at.

But how would I soft-clip a sine wave? As in, instead of it just flat-lining at the clipping point, the signal is merely heavily attenuated.

Thank you.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Hard clip, and then do a polynomial interpolation between the clipped and the original.

Check out madbrain's answer here. More ideas are there.

This was just the first hit on Google.