Before watching this, I thought wavetables were so much more complicated, precisely because of the fancy wave sampling visualisation thing Albeton's Wavetable does. I thought there must be some sort of dimensional transformation maths kinda thing going on, along the lines of FFT; thanks for explaining it so concisely!
So basically wavetable synthesis is moving or morphing between a bunch of single cycle waveforms. I always thought this was the case, but info about it has always been ass at describing it. It has been well over a decade since I've written music, but the one thing I really remember that is also a great example of a wavetable synth is FL Studio's Granulator. On my channel I did a Hardstyle/Hardtance remix of Cosmic Gate Fire Wire and manipulated the hell out of the Fire Wire vocal clip. If you're curious on what it sounds like, the wavetable manipulation is not that long after the acid section at the start.
To be more specific it is playing back a loop of short fraction of a sample to create a note of a particular frequency, no mater the fundamental frequency of the sample. Sort of just pulling single cycle waveforms from within a sample
What he is doing is a form of sampling. The wave table refers to the act of selecting a specific portion of a sample to generate sounds from it. It is a form of sampling. Normal sampling doesn't dissect a noise. It simply uses it in it's entirety. If course you can do whatever you want with a sample, but wavetableing is a method of sound extracting from a small portion of the sample instead,versus using the entire sample.
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Before watching this, I thought wavetables were so much more complicated, precisely because of the fancy wave sampling visualisation thing Albeton's Wavetable does. I thought there must be some sort of dimensional transformation maths kinda thing going on, along the lines of FFT; thanks for explaining it so concisely!
Best explanation of what wavetable is !
BRO I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD DRAG AUDIO FILES INTO WAVETABLE :O
Thanks! Please make a second part of this video
Bravo. You get it. Keeping videos easy to understand, quick and to the point. A lot of content creators can learn from this. Subscribed!
Thank you, this was the explanation I had been looking for.
Great explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
So basically wavetable synthesis is moving or morphing between a bunch of single cycle waveforms. I always thought this was the case, but info about it has always been ass at describing it. It has been well over a decade since I've written music, but the one thing I really remember that is also a great example of a wavetable synth is FL Studio's Granulator. On my channel I did a Hardstyle/Hardtance remix of Cosmic Gate Fire Wire and manipulated the hell out of the Fire Wire vocal clip. If you're curious on what it sounds like, the wavetable manipulation is not that long after the acid section at the start.
awesome video! I had been getting confused by other definitions of wavetable synthesis by the word 'sample' being used in more than one context
Finally got it, thanks a lot man!
Isn't this just sampling?
To be more specific it is playing back a loop of short fraction of a sample to create a note of a particular frequency, no mater the fundamental frequency of the sample. Sort of just pulling single cycle waveforms from within a sample
How does this differ from sampling? I could have swore the emulator ii works in this same way... Maybe I'm not understanding a specific subletly
What he is doing is a form of sampling. The wave table refers to the act of selecting a specific portion of a sample to generate sounds from it.
It is a form of sampling. Normal sampling doesn't dissect a noise. It simply uses it in it's entirety. If course you can do whatever you want with a sample, but wavetableing is a method of sound extracting from a small portion of the sample instead,versus using the entire sample.