New Release: Wavefield v1.0.0 by Fine Increments - Wavetable-based Spectral Filter (VST3/AU/AAX)

[Shabdahbriah]

I see, just bought a plugin thru a company using stripe with I guess the paypal link integration you mentioned. (https://www.cutclassic.com/)

Ok, for now it needs to stay card only but i'm looking at expanding the option in the future to include the full Stripe payment element which includes Paypal, Apple Pay, etc. This would be a very significant refactor of my website and backend, and isn't a light task.

Very very interesting and well implemented app... Please do announce when you get PayPal, or can provide a "PayPal(me)Wavefield" account address, to buy this product through PayPal. Thanks in advance.

[pekbro]

I'm trying pretty hard to see the benefits of the spectral morphing over say bleass fusion which does exactly the same wavetable thing just in parallel and zero latency.

Anyway ymmv, I may buy this yet.

[suthnear]

Thanks

[kraster]

I'm trying pretty hard to see the benefits of the spectral morphing over say bleass fusion which does exactly the same wavetable thing just in parallel and zero latency.

Anyway ymmv, I may buy this yet.

Bleass fusion is a waveshaping/distortion effect like kilohearts shapertable, not a filter effect like wavefield.

[fineincrements]

Really digging this plugin. Definitely gonna buy.

I was messing with the 'Talkative' preset earlier, sounds really good. Makes me wish there were a few more formant presets in here. May see if I can export some of the ones from Phaseplant into Wavefield.

Thanks for the support! Really glad you like it. Yeah those ExC presets were made by one of my beta testers. he's excellent. You can absolutely drag any .wav into the interface to use it as a wavetable.

[pekbro]

I'm trying pretty hard to see the benefits of the spectral morphing over say bleass fusion which does exactly the same wavetable thing just in parallel and zero latency.

Anyway ymmv, I may buy this yet.

Bleass fusion is a waveshaping/distortion effect like kilohearts shapertable, not a filter effect like wavefield.

Of course that sounds great! I guess I'm just having difficulty accepting that I don't really care for it. I go nuts for this stuff like everybody else typically.

Oh well carry on...

[fineincrements]

Very very interesting and well implemented app... Please do announce when you get PayPal, or can provide a "PayPal(me)Wavefield" account address, to buy this product through PayPal. Thanks in advance.

Absolutely, will do! I wish it were more simple to swap out but it's really a much more complex payment system and will require at least a thousand lines of code and testing before I could make live. Thanks for the interest and compliments

[fineincrements]

I'm trying pretty hard to see the benefits of the spectral morphing over say bleass fusion which does exactly the same wavetable thing just in parallel and zero latency.

Anyway ymmv, I may buy this yet.

My suggestion, just download the free trial and see if it does anything for you. Can't hurt

[pekbro]

Well, I've been using the demo since it was released. Anyway, no worries...

[fineincrements]

Well, I've been using the demo since it was released. Anyway, no worries...

Haha cool

[fineincrements]

Having a user adjustable fft size would be a great move. Keep your default as whatever you like most but the change in sound with different sized bins is huge and a useful tool. It also allows for much lower latency at the expense of frequency resolution.
This is the best implementation of this idea I've seen in a plugin.

Thank you so much for the compliment and suggestion! My only hesitation to do a FFT switch is that I first tried this at FFT 1024, and the low end artifacts were so bad. When you have these extremely sharp angled wavetable shapes running through the low end, and a low resolution, the discontinuity between bins causes a light but horrible distortion. I really wanted it to work at 1024 and spent gobs of time adding in gaussian smoothing and slew rate limiting and whatever I could come up with that might tame these artifacts and sadly nothing worked. at least nothing that preserved the integrity of the wavetable shape a user might want to draw in. I sort of decided I had no choice but to move to 2048 and the artifacts were handled. There is still a tiny bit of smoothing in the low end but it doesn't have to be much at 2048.

[kraster]

Having a user adjustable fft size would be a great move. Keep your default as whatever you like most but the change in sound with different sized bins is huge and a useful tool. It also allows for much lower latency at the expense of frequency resolution.
This is the best implementation of this idea I've seen in a plugin.

Thank you so much for the compliment and suggestion! My only hesitation to do a FFT switch is that I first tried this at FFT 1024, and the low end artifacts were so bad. When you have these extremely sharp angled wavetable shapes running through the low end, and a low resolution, the discontinuity between bins causes a light but horrible distortion. I really wanted it to work at 1024 and spent gobs of time adding in gaussian smoothing and slew rate limiting and whatever I could come up with that might tame these artifacts and sadly nothing worked. at least nothing that preserved the integrity of the wavetable shape a user might want to draw in. I sort of decided I had no choice but to move to 2048 and the artifacts were handled. There is still a tiny bit of smoothing in the low end but it doesn't have to be much at 2048.

Just spitballing but would it be possible to design it so when lower FFT settings are used that it only processes the higher frequency end of the spectrum.

So as you go to smaller fft less bass is being processed and the affected and unaffected bass signal are recombined at the output. Not too dissimilar to the bass preservation mode that’s already but more implicitly tied to FFT size.

I find that in practice the areas where wavefield often has the most audible effect is in the Mid range.

As I said just spitballing!

[RPH]

I created a wavetable with 16 frames in Ocean Swift Wavetable Creator, when I drag 'n drop it into the Wavetable editor of Wavefield it doesn't recognise the 16 cycles. The editor just fills all 20 keyframes with what is in the wavefile.

OceanSwift-16cycles.png

WavefieldResult.png

Single waveform drag 'n drop works (I should have read the manual), but I can only import 1 file. Dropping another into e.g. keyframe 2 overwrites the first imported file. It would be nice to drag 'n drop single cycles into each of the 20 keyframes.

Wavefield has a save bass knob, a LP knob to not process the highs above a given point would be good too. Now I externally EQ after Wavefield and distort the result.

[fineincrements]

Having a user adjustable fft size would be a great move. Keep your default as whatever you like most but the change in sound with different sized bins is huge and a useful tool. It also allows for much lower latency at the expense of frequency resolution.
This is the best implementation of this idea I've seen in a plugin.

Thank you so much for the compliment and suggestion! My only hesitation to do a FFT switch is that I first tried this at FFT 1024, and the low end artifacts were so bad. When you have these extremely sharp angled wavetable shapes running through the low end, and a low resolution, the discontinuity between bins causes a light but horrible distortion. I really wanted it to work at 1024 and spent gobs of time adding in gaussian smoothing and slew rate limiting and whatever I could come up with that might tame these artifacts and sadly nothing worked. at least nothing that preserved the integrity of the wavetable shape a user might want to draw in. I sort of decided I had no choice but to move to 2048 and the artifacts were handled. There is still a tiny bit of smoothing in the low end but it doesn't have to be much at 2048.

Just spitballing but would it be possible to design it so when lower FFT settings are used that it only processes the higher frequency end of the spectrum.

So as you go to smaller fft less bass is being processed and the affected and unaffected bass signal are recombined at the output. Not too dissimilar to the bass preservation mode that’s already but more implicitly tied to FFT size.

I find that in practice the areas where wavefield often has the most audible effect is in the Mid range.

As I said just spitballing!

EDIT: I actually reread what you said and I think i misunderstood you. You're saying have the processing only affect the higher frequencies. This is a bit circling back to what I was saying I tried implementing earlier - users are going to expect that if they draw a wavetable in the editor, the shape they draw is going to work across the spectrum. I feel like it'd invite a lot of scrutiny and bug reports to have a portion of the spectrum inactive in a sort of invisible inaccessible way. what you're saying would work though... just very hesitant to implement something like that.

[fineincrements]

I created a wavetable with 16 frames in Ocean Swift Wavetable Creator, when I drag 'n drop it into the Wavetable editor of Wavefield it doesn't recognise the 16 cycles. The editor just fills all 20 keyframes with what is in the wavefile.

Single waveform drag 'n drop works (I should have read the manual), but I can only import 1 file. Dropping another into e.g. keyframe 2 overwrites the first imported file. It would be nice to drag 'n drop single cycles into each of the 20 keyframes.

Wavefield has a save bass knob, a LP knob to not process the highs above a given point would be good too. Now I externally EQ after Wavefield and distort the result.

Yes, if there is enough information in the .wav, Wavefield will fill all 20 keyframes. it has to be a very small file for less than 20 to fill.

Rest assured, the roadmap already includes the ability to drop .wav files into individual keyframes, and select and extract a single custom frame for each keyframe. This will be coming in a future update!

LP knob is a good call, adding it to the tracker