PPG WaveGenerator For Mac And PC *Out Now*

[secretkillerofnames]

(beyond being able to use it in a DAW).

I can use it in any DAW. Play notes, automate parameters, record it.

Yeah I figure the automation would be useful but is that the only extra benefit? I can play notes and record it with the current version.

Someone was suggesting it was better / more elegant or something in a previous post.

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[DocT]

...which i presume are all this pPG WG.

Yes, everything WG except drums.

[dexterbella]

Couldn't help myself - bought it! It's Wolfgang Palm and a wavetable synth - just couldn't resist. Haven't really got to grips with it yet but I really think I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this.

[DocT]

is that the only extra benefit?

I am an IPad noob and don't know exactly what is possible there, but on my PC with Cubase I can open more than 50 Wavegenerators.
I'd consider that as quite useful in some composing and arranging situations

[Shabdahbriah]

PPG WaveGenerator requires a Mac or PC computer with an Intel Core CPU 1.83 GHz processor or faster.

Is this 'written in stone'?

[secretkillerofnames]

Here is another question - is it possible to import single-cycle waveforms into the Mac/PC Version.

I'm thinking like the Galbanum Architecture collection.

[Gribs]

It sounds like Mr. Palm is being entirely reasonable and approachable regarding copy protection and activation. I purchased a license and activated on my main DAW PC. I have a fairly new laptop as well, so will probably request a second activation for that some time soon.

I just cropped my wife's face out of a recent photo, reduced it down to 128x128 pixels, saved it as a png, and turned her into a wave table (tried each of the three methods). I was expecting to get some fuzzy, noisy stuff as that is what often happens in some other additive synths that have image import, but the waves created by all three methods are all musical even with the filter bypassed.

I understand wanting to import all sorts of outside waves and whatnot, but to me that doesn't really seem to be the point.

I never tried using the iPad camera because up until about a week ago I was using an iPad version 1 - gotta try that with my new Air.

It looks like 2013 is the year of the additive synths!

[ZenPunkHippy]

It sounds like Mr. Palm is being entirely reasonable and approachable regarding copy protection and activation. I purchased a license and activated on my main DAW PC. I have a fairly new laptop as well, so will probably request a second activation for that some time soon

The original license from yesterdays release allowed users only a single activation, ever.

It's now been updated to be more reasonable.

[secretkillerofnames]

I understand wanting to import all sorts of outside waves and whatnot, but to me that doesn't really seem to be the point.

So does that mean "no!"?

I think it would be a super feature particularly for people with the Galbanum or Ensoniq single cycle wave collections. Honestly it is a bit different to just importing "outside wave and whatnot". They are pretty much what you are creating - just mathematically derived based on different formula and pretty difficult to replicate by hand.

[Shabdahbriah]

I understand wanting to import all sorts of outside waves and whatnot, but to me that doesn't really seem to be the point.

So does that mean "no!"?

I think it would be a super feature particularly for people with the Galbanum or Ensoniq single cycle wave collections. Honestly it is a bit different to just importing "outside wave and whatnot". They are pretty much what you are creating - just mathematically derived based on different formula and pretty difficult to replicate by hand.

I think any "point" in something generative by its nature/design and implimentation, is (IMHO) the serendipituous discovery of something which inspires you or another.

Mr. Palm (and company) have proven quite receptive to input (bad pun intended), so hope for more 'variables' (importing wavetables, etc) being planned/added to the equation, is a sentiment I share.

Regardless, it's on my 'short-list' if only for this 'features' potential:

I just cropped my wife's face out of a recent photo, reduced it down to 128x128 pixels, saved it as a png, and turned her into a wave table (tried each of the three methods). I was expecting to get some fuzzy, noisy stuff as that is what often happens in some other additive synths that have image import, but the waves created by all three methods are all musical even with the filter bypassed.

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[V0RT3X]

Some more sound demos would be nice. I appreciate the one DocT put up but id like to hear more sounds from this.

[Shabdahbriah]

Some more sound demos would be nice. I appreciate the one DocT put up but id like to hear more sounds from this.

[DocT]

I have one more so far, though it doesn't offer much more of sound variety because it is from an early stage.



Btw, if someone has the time, I'd like to know how to embed these videos on kvr.

[arakula]

PPG WaveGenerator requires a Mac or PC computer with an Intel Core CPU 1.83 GHz processor or faster.

Is this 'written in stone'?

That a machine which is guaranteed to run it without breaking into sweat.

The basic requirements that should be sufficient to run it are lower.
I've just tested it on an AMD Sempron 2200+ (that's a single-core 1.5GHz) / 1GB machine running XP; works, too, but it's eating quite a lot of processing power there. I'm not entirely sure whether highly complex programs with lots of voices can be run without glitches.

In general, faster is better here, but the number of cores/processors is not so relevant. It just helps if you come close to the magical 100% CPU barrier