Korg modwave - Backup and Restore

Using the Librarian
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Importing Wavetables with more than 64 waveforms
e modwave, like many other wavetable synths, crossfades between waveforms in real-time. Some popular wavetable
soware uses a dierent approach; instead of crossfading, they create a series of intermediate waveforms and then
just switch between them. If the dierences between the intermediate waveforms are small, it sounds close enough to
a crossfade. To transition between two waveforms, they might create a Wavetable with the rst waveform at the start,
254 intermediate waveforms, and then nally the second waveform at the end. To transition this smoothly between 64
dierent waveforms, they would need to create over sixteen thousand intermediate tables!
e modwave, on the other hand, needs only the 64 original waveforms to create a completely smooth, stepless
crossfade. is is kept in mind when importing wavetables. If a 32-bit/2048-sample wavetable has more than 64
waveforms, the modwave will assume that it’s a generated crossfade and drop some of the intermediate waveforms to
create a 64-waveform version.
Creating and editing Wavetables
For creating and editing your own Wavetables, we suggest using WaveEdit. WaveEdit is free, and available for MacOS,
Windows, and Linux. See www.korg.com for a link to a version of WaveEdit which is optimized specically for the
modwave, and can create Wavetables in the 32-bit/2048-sample format.
e Editor/Librarian can export modwave-format Wavetables, just like Performances, Programs, etc. However,
exported Wavetables cannot be edited. Instead, to make edits to previously imported custom Wavetables:
1. Open the source le in your Wavetable editing application.
2. Edit the Wavetable as desired.
3. Save the results to a new .wav le, using the same name as the Wavetable in the modwave’s database.
Using the same name is important; see “Duplicates and le names,” below.
4. In the modwave Editor/Librarian, Import the .wav le as a Wavetable.
5. When prompted, choose to replace the existing Wavetable.
is will automatically update any existing sounds to use the new version.
Duplicates and le names
.wav-format Wavetables don’t have modwave UUIDs until aer they’ve been imported into the database (see “UUIDs”
on page13). So, to check for duplicate les, the modwave uses the name of the .wav le on disk. If you import a .wav-
format Wavetable le, and it has the same name as a Wavetable already in the modwave’s database, the Editor/Librarian
will ask if you want to overwrite the existing Wavetable, or make a new, unique Wavetable instead.
Backup and restore
Backing up all data
1. In the File menu, select the Backup… command.
e Main Window will change to show the Backup window.
2. Enter a brief descriptive note.
3. If desired, enable the Include User Sample Bank option.
If this box is checked, the current User Sample Bank will be included in the backup le. Note that this can signicantly
increase both the size of the backup le (up to 4 GB!), and the time required to complete the backup.
4. Press Start to begin the backup, or Cancel to return to the Main Window.
A progress bar shows the status of the backup, and a message appears when the backup is complete.
5. Press the Done button to return to the Main Window.
Restoring data
Important: Restoring from a backup will delete all of the data currently in the modwave. If a subset of the data
types is selected during the restore, only the data of the selected types will be deleted.
1. In the File menu, select the Restore… command.
A standard le open dialog will appear.
2. Select the modwave backup le to use for the restore.