What is "waveshaper"

n. (context music English) An audio effect that performs waveshaping.

In electronic music waveshaping is a type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveforms.

Waveshaper (Musician) is an Electronic / Synthwave musician from Sweden, active in the Synthwave scene. Inspired by artists like Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk as well as 80s movie music, his music is Retro Futuristic oriented and composed with a variety of hardware synthesizers, such as ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter-4 and Korg MS-20. He released his debut album Tracks To The Future on the label Lunar Boogie 2013, and the EP Sounds That Kill on Telefuture Records 2014. In 2015 he released the four-track vinyl record Solar Drifter on the Swedish Synthwave label Rad Rush Records.