Promote waveshaper to voice insert FX block

[mkruselj]

This issue is closely related to #4355 and #3257.

In order to make Surge's voicing even more flexible, after upgrading the waveshaper with more parameters (#4847), it makes a lot of sense to actually be able to swap the waveshaper with a different effect that would be polyphonic and modulatable just like the waveshaper. This will also enable the nodal routing to reproduce existing filter configs (for example RING). There's a number of candidates we can add here:

• Digital ring modulator (just a multiply, as used in current RING filter config) - mix, LP, HP
• Analog ring modulator (the one from the FX section, without the carrier part) - forward bias, linear region, LP, HP, mix
• Treemonster - threshold, speed, LP, HP, pitch, ring mod, mix
• Frequency shifter - left shift, right shift, time, feedback, mix
• Simple delay (delay time up to 250 ms) - dry/wet, time, LP, HP
• Sample & Hold - rate, mix
• Bitcrusher - amount, mix
• Parametric EQ (switchable between low shelf/high shelf/peak) - frequency, gain, Q, mix
• Simple filter (design and parameters TBD)

[PopeKehoeIII]

I'd love a grungy XOR logic gate option for the ring mod - many vintage synths (especially lower end ones) just used an XOR gate on the pulse waveforms to "fake" ring mod including the MG-1, oddy, and MS-20. With arbitrary signal inputs rather than tapping dedicated pulse wave outputs of oscillators I guess you'd have to just treat anything above 0 as 1, anything below zero as 0, then shift the output of the XOR to be -1 to +1 in order to not add a DC offset.
here's a discussion about it -
https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/812474-ms-20-ring-mod.html

[mkruselj]

That sounds like a great mode to add to digital ring mod!

[morganholly]

talked about it on discord (here), i'd like to add 5 continuous logic functions to the list of two input processor modes

cxor: min(max(a, b), -min(a, b))
and 4 modifications of it i don't have good names for:

1/2:
v1 = max(e, f)
cx = min(v1, -min(e, f)
v2 = -min(cx, v1)
out1 = min(v1, v2)
out2 = min(e, v2)

3/4:
cx = min(max(g, h), -min(g, h))
v1 = max(-cx, -h) # or -min(cx, h), original was better for the analog circuit, -min(cx, h) would be better for digital
v2 = max(-h, g)
v3 = max(g, -cx)
out3 = min(v1, v2)
out4 = min(v1, v3)

reaktor implementation

cxor, all following images have the 2 inputs as horizontal position, and the vertical position is the output value

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