It's incredibly easy to create good or interesting sounding waveforms/wavetables with the right tools and talents. (for just one example the Mu3eum waveforms and tables made with same).It isn't that easy to create good or interesting sounding waveforms/wavetables.
Having said that, single cycle waveforms can only hold so much data and do tend to fall into a few categories such as bell like, metallic, somewhat voxish, analog style (such as saw wave variations), etc.
So after a while the waveforms can start to sound a bit same-ish. I don't know what the math is for the number of possible unique sounding waveforms made with 2048 samples.
Sweeping a WT is where the magic lies such as Hive 2's "Synced Square.wav" which gives the synth hard sync sounds capability which it doesn't have otherwise and so on......
The other power of WTs is to be able to load up a table and have access to a selection of single waveforms beyond the standard generated saw, square, sine etc waves. WTs don't have to be swept to be useful.
As a heads up, Image-Line is working on a Wavetable synth although the sound demos so far are pretty generic. Will be interesting to see how it sounds upon release.
Statistics: Posted by Teksonik — Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:54 pm