If I recall correctly, the ruling with Phase Plant was that any given sound was limited to 2 frames of a wavetable. That was my second month and the first time wavetables were in play, and that's just kind of stuck in my head since then. Not allowing the use of wavetables to effectively achieve sample playback seems reasonable to me, but a 2 frame limitation seems like an overcorrection to me.ELEX wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 10:30 pmIs this indeed the case ? I.e. is it not allowed to use a table of single cycle waveforms ? I thought the intention of rules in this case is to prevent import of samples as wavetable and achieve sample playback by scanning the table. Tables consisting of single cycles and scanning those should be acceptable imo.GeneralQ wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 5:17 pm Another thing I would like to point out, and this is closely tied to my previous reply. The rules prevents the synth to be used to its full potential. During a Surge challange it was told that only single cycle waveforms can be used because wavetable playback would be to close to sampling. While this is technically true that is the whole point of wavetable synthesis. To go beyond static single cycle waveforms. So basically we are restricted to not use one of the main features of wavetable synthesis. This would be like saying "we use an fm synth but envelopes are only allowed to be used on carriers and not on modulators".
By way of contrast, with Vital I think we were allowed any use of the factory wavetables, as well as any use of the text to wavetable functionality, which I found surprising but welcome.
I may raise an eyebrow over the wavetable thing, but am certainly not complaining. On the contrary.