wavetables are like samples on steroids I guess
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alright, so I’m only 10 years late to this, but wavetable synths are awesome. they allow you to basically scroll through a number of waveforms and this keeps the sound always evolving, nice and fresh.
you can, of course, draw your own waveforms, or import wavetables from different sources, BUT, up until recently, I hadn’t realised that you could actually import SAMPLES as well. and, well, you know me, I love samples, and I love samplers.
there are some best practices to import samples of course, but I do like to live dangerously, and I personally break this rule quite often. If I find a sound of any kind that I like, I just import it, and play around with it, and see what makes sense. maybe it only works in a very specific range of the wavetable, maybe it only works on a specific single wave. You have to trust your ears. and a tuner. a tuner helps actually.
I'm using Vital, which is just an INSANE free synth maad by Matt Tytel, go check it out: vital.audio/
#vitalsynth #wavetable
0:00 intro
0:47 what is wavetable?
2:11 what do samples have to do with wavetables...?
2:40 best practices for importing samples in Vital
3:02 importing a sample in Vital and making a wavetable out of it
4:42 Roland's brilliant usage of wavetable synthesis
5:24 rules are made to be broken
6:25 some cool sounds from unusual sources
7:56 a tune made only with wavetables
Wavetable synthesis as a concept happened in the 1960s and was first commercialized in the late 1970s, even before MIDI.
There’s not very much that’s new about wavetable synthesis itself. There are new techniques and methods and implementations like Vital in using wavetable synthesis, but wavetable synthesis itself has been around a long time.
It’s even arguable that it predated FM synthesis at least the most popular commercializations of it starting with the DX-7.
I would say that the ability to drop long, complex samples that get converted into wavetables is a pretty recent thing though right? if serum didn't start it per se, it certainly popularised it...?
do you know more about this particular feature? cos it is what led me to do the video in the first place!
Absolutely brilliant. Very well explained & demonstrated.
& a really nice groove you got going on!
thank you so much!
Buddy, you pretty much just made a ali express Flim by Aphex Twin at the end
I read “film” and became quite confused
I was shooting more for Flim from Wish but I can live with that!
Great vid 🫡
Wave table synthesis is the jamm! It's like 3D vision for sounds, taking us into the future :) Thx for the awesome video and link to vital, you rock dude !
it's pretty awesome ain't it!
3:03 I REALLY MISS
❤️ the tune
thank you!
Fantastic video, thank you so much for taking the time to make it, really explains a lot and great work at the end to boot!
thank you kindly!
Sick video and awesome track❤
thank you!
Very well explained. I never realized that you need to take into account the sample rate when choosing the note to make the wave table from.
honestly sometimes it just works with whatever note but yeah them's the guidelines apparently lol
there's really no wrong way to use it imho
i used to scan sounds in harmor similar to this
Cool vidéo! Your fi al track is reallyyyy cool
thank you!
wish you'd explain WHY at the best practices section...
regarding that... let me explain!
I found these guidelines in videos on youtube and articles on blogs, but I couldn't find an official manual for Vital. I kinda tried to make sense of them on my own, but honestly the math didn't make sense or at least didn't show me a clear reason WHY these guidelines are there.
to make it more confusing, I regularly import samples with different notes and Vital gets them right, and sometimes I import some simple sounds and it gets them wrong.
I really didn't want to make this video longer and more boring than it needed to be, and the whole point of it was to just experiment and, you know, use a tuner to figure out where your pitch is at! once you get that, you can adjust the pitch on the oscillator and you're good.
hope that clears that up!
part of the reason I finally ponied up for a nice macbook that should last multiple years
at this point, hardware is for the feel but software has really become so useful
it is wild that things like vital are free and people are still buying standalone synthesizers imo
yeah... I know what you mean. I've always been more of a computer guy, it's only when I started having disposable income that I started buying gear. also more knowledge in general. once you reach a decent level of knowledge, it's always good to put limitations on what you can do, to avoid choice paralysis...
but then again if I have a VERY precise idea in my mind, a computer is usually the fastest way to get there.
start using/modulating the macros of vital.....
yes! I usually map them when making patches, but decided to keep it simple for this one...