WaveTables and TransWaves and GeoBlend… oh My!
A wavetable is a sequence of fixed length single cycle audio waveforms of equal frequency. Multiple complex sounds can be generated from a single table by playing through the waves…
Tag: wavetable
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HydraSynth 🧻🧻🧻💩
2024 update. Hey look they include stickers in the box! I haven’t seen that since the early 80s. It looks like a Roland Jupiter 8 bonked a Nord, it works…
Access Virus TI 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Sold by weight Long have I wanted to know the answer to this ageless question: why are Access Virus synthesisers so fucking expensive? I found that the answer is really…
Waldorf Blofeld 🧻🧻🧻
German Humour (updated August ’21) There really is something about the Blofeld that inspires inadvertent snickering. Like an editor being released by “SoftKnobs”, which makes perfect sense but … c’mon. The…
Arturia Microfreak v5 🧻🧻🧻💩
More updates – now with three and a half knobs. Before anything else – thank Arturia for actually trying out ideas not the regurgitation practised by Behringer and Roland. In…
Ensoniq ESQ-M 🧻🧻🧻🧻
The old cat at the back of the cage I’ve owned my ESQ-M since 1987, the year it came out. I’ve taken it all around the world and made a…
Six Free Synthesisers & a Peace Pipe
Vital has been moved to its own page. We’re blessed that software instruments are available, rarely the cost of hardware and often their equal. We’re especially blessed by free, or…
Tone 2 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Unashamedly Digital The other day I saw a review that complained the Tone2 synthesisers were ‘unashamedly digital’. Which introduces shame into how you make bleep-bloop noises. Could we just say…
Xferrecords Serum 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
It’s a little sad that the original wavetable creators PPG and Waldorf are mostly forgotten, for wavetables now mean XferRecords’ Serum (and the tributes that desperate software houses have made…
Steinberg HALion 7 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updated for version 7 and many errors punched. I have written about eras of sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. That leads to…