2 What Is a Wavetable?
Groove Synthesis
What Is a Wavetable?
A wavetable is a collection of single-cycle waveforms. The 3rd Wave’s
wavetables have 64 waveforms arranged in a sequence that often
harmonically relates one waveform to the next so that as you move from
one waveform to another, the sound evolves smoothly. When enabled,
the wave flow control enhances this smoothing effect. With wave flow
off, the waveforms are not smoothed as they step from one to the next.
This stepping is more obvious in some wavetables than in others.
You can sweep forward or backward through the waveforms in a wavet-
able using the various controls on the 3rd Wave. You can also choose
to play just a single waveform within a wavetable without sweeping
by turning off the Wave Envelope (which is the default way to control
wave sweeping). With the Wave Envelope off, whatever waveshape you
choose within a wavetable using the
wave offset knob is the static wave
that you will hear (as long as no other mod sources are sweeping through
the wavetable).
The image below shows the wavetable window, which is available on
each of the 3 oscillators.
The 64 waves in wavetable P12 with waveshape 19 selected
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