Face it, at least few are horribly confused by what is meant when someone says "Wavetable Synthesis".



But what would be the use of it if there would be no means to scan through them during the duration of a single note.
No matter how complex they can be in single or multiple cycles, they would only be preset oscillator waveforms. Just as e.g. the ancient Korg DW6000/8000 series had (or Roland's LA synthesis that used a crossfaded sequence of waves), but this isn't considered wavetable synthesis afaik.
But maybe this is even confusing more

well, firstly, to be pedantic, remember you have to scan through any single-cycle wavetable to read the data out of it.

but quite a lot can be done with reading multiple single-cycle wavetables, not sequentially, but in parallel. Basically, you can read from N wavetables in parallel and dynamically mix between them, in a variety of ways (eg crossfading two waves over time).

For example, a certain amount of research appears to have been done in utilising this to generate specific dynamic evolutions of spectra as a means of emulating e.g. real acoustic instruments. (http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=7003)

Since this minor post appears to have been buried beneath the *cough* greatness of the rest of this thread, I'll be so impertinent as to drag it to the surface again. I hereby apologize for actually talking about synthesis.

do i really need to link the yuck yuck guy again?

So you don't like the melody? Or is it the musical style? Or the sound of the filter? The rhythm? The chords progression?

Troll.

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Well (after I fixed your link for the second example there), I see your point that similar things can be achieved in some (but not all) cases. A more complex wavetable example would likely be impossible to be done in an FM synth, and vice versa.


First one is FM, second one wavetable scanning, of course. Easily noticeable.