Waveforms and Text Files

[chironex]

Hello, I need help with two things.

First, I need a place where I can find waveforms (1024-sample, preferably) of various instruments, vox, whatever, kind of like Absynth's waveform collection. Wherever I can find those (or make them), please tell me. Thanks.

Second, I am using SynthMaker, in which you must enter the waveforms as texts that are essentially lists of the samples' values from -1 to 1. WAVs do not work for easy waveform loading.

Thanks,
Chiro

[dougsyo]

Maybe someone over in the synthmaker forum has written a program to translate a single-cycle wav into a table...

Doug

[chironex]

Been there, done that. Hey, where could I get single-cycle WAVs anyway?

[C00kie]

Hey, where could I get single-cycle WAVs anyway?

Anywhere... Just cut out the section you want from existing samples, and repitch them to 43.0664Hz or note F2 -23.442 cts to get one cycle to be 1024 samples long (presuming sample rate = 44.lkHz).

[jupiter8]

Second, I am using SynthMaker, in which you must enter the waveforms as texts that are essentially lists of the samples' values from -1 to 1.

You don't happen to have the exact format for those values ?

IE Do you need

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0.7
0.6
0.3
-0.2
etc.

or

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sample[0] = 0.1f
sampe[1]  = -0.2f
etc.

or etc etc.
If one were to make a simple program that does that one would need to know exactly how to output the text to avoid excessice text editing.
To manually edit the text file would just be mindnumbingly boring.

[chironex]

I need it like...

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0.7
0.6
0.3
-0.2
etc. 

chironex wrote:
Hey, where could I get single-cycle WAVs anyway?
Anywhere... Just cut out the section you want from existing samples, and repitch them to 43.0664Hz or note F2 -23.442 cts to get one cycle to be 1024 samples long (presuming sample rate = 44.lkHz).

Ok, and with what software would I be able to do this so that it cycles seamlessly?

[C00kie]

Ok, and with what software would I be able to do this so that it cycles seamlessly?

Any decent audio editor should get you there. CoolEditPro, Adobe Audition, maybe even Audacity or Wavosaur.

[chironex]

Erm...whaddya recommend?

[C00kie]

Erm...whaddya recommend?

I already gave you four recommendations. Audacity & Wavosaur are free, try them out weather you like them.
Adobe Audition is the successor of CoolEditPro. Not free, but extremely capable for doing about anything you want to do to audio files.