82 Creating Custom Wavetables
Groove Synthesis
Creating Custom Wavetables
The 3rd Wave has 48 User wavetables (the “U” set). These are 64-wave-
shape, high-resolution (96 kHz) anti-aliased wavetables. They were
created specically for the 3rd Wave by our team of sound designers
using the built-in Wave Maker tool.
In addition to these 48 wavetables, the built-in Wave Maker utility
allows you to create and load an additional 16 of your own custom
waves. These will ll slots U48 - U63.
If you want, you can also use the Wave Maker to overwrite any of the 48
factory user waves — though this will impact any presets that use them.
To create your own custom User wavetables you will use the Wave
Maker. First you need to import audio into the 3rd Wave. There are three
ways to do this.
To import audio into the 3rd Wave:
• Connect an audio source to the rear-panel audio in using an unbal-
anced, ¼-inch audio cable and record that audio input using the Make
Waves button and associated menu commands.
or
• Use an audio recording application such as Audacity, Logic Pro, Pro
Tools, or similar audio recording application to create a 96 kHz, 16-bit
or 24-bit monophonic .wav format audio le then copy it to the 3rd
Wave’s audio directory using your computer and a USB cable.
or
• Use an audio recording application such as Audacity, Logic Pro, Pro
Tools, or similar audio recording application to create 64 single-cycle
waveforms at 96 kHz and 1024 samples each. Then, using Audac-
ity or other audio editing application, arrange them back to back in a
.wav le. If you import this, the automatic procedure is bypassed and
it imports the wavetable just as you created it, since its length is already
correct. Be aware that you must import a .wav le that is exactly 65536
samples in length: 64 x 1024 = 65536.
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