Quick and dirty wavetable making

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I haven’t used wavetable samples before really, but I was curious about making my own… so I put together a script that will make a wavetable audio file from any input audio file. I’ve thrown a bunch of different audio files at it and somehow Falcon manages to keep everything in tune, so that’s cool.

The resulting wavetable file sounds like crap when modulated (at least for the files I’ve tried), but it is a quick way to get a variety of different timbres into the wavetable oscillator. The next step of my wavetable exploration will be creating wavetables that sound good when modulated 🙂

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Here’s the first script which builds a wavetable from a single audio file.

I created a second script that interpolates between two audio files to create the wavetable file. So far I’ve only tried it with some of the Adventure Kids Waveforms and it works really well.

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Okay another update. I’m going to keep exploring the wavetable stuff so I wrote a Ruby script to do the wave-to-wave interpolation, as well as support randomly chosen waves from a directory. It’s just a first pass but I plan to evolve it into a decent command-line tool for constructing wavetables.

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Any chance you could describe how to actually USE these cool sounding and generous tools? To members who have NO idea how to deal with the various links you’ve provided? TIA:)

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The project page has instructions on how to use the scripts… if there’s something specific you’re stuck on, let me know and I’ll do my best to help 🙂