Parameters
Drive
These knobs move the module's published schema, but the preview engine only renders a few modules so far — OSC Mini, FX Mini, Amp Rig, Space Mini and the OSC-1 chain — so they won't change what you hear yet.
Keyboard
Drive
Play the module directly — nothing to cue.
Drive
Harmonics that were not there before.
A stage of OSC-1. It works the same on its own page as it does in the chain — same parameters, same paths.
About
A waveshaping distortion with a wet/dry mix. First stage of the effects rack, because everything after it is shaping harmonics this stage generates.
Take it into your DAW.
Same DSP as this page. The plugin isn't a rebuild — it's the identical kernel from the identical TypeScript source, compiled native instead of to WASM.
Free forever, no account, and playing it in the browser will never ask you for one. VST3 and standalone today; AU and CLAP are on the roadmap.
How it works.
A static waveshaping curve with 4x oversampling, split into a wet path and a dry path that sum at the stage output. Oversampling matters because a nonlinearity generates harmonics above the sample rate that would otherwise fold back down as inharmonic aliasing.
This is a curve, not a circuit model. It is not a simulation of a particular pedal and does not claim to be one.
It's yours to read and to fork.
Research preview
npx codex clone drive
npm run devThe codex CLI name is proposed, not shipped. That command gives you this module's DSP, schema, presets and UI as a local project — change a number, hear it immediately.