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Sat, 07/09/2011 - 17:39
Normally I don't get into these, but somehow I have a difference of opinion with someone on the FL forum regarding whether or not your Freehand synth is a wavetable synth. It started with someone requesting a wavetable synth and someone else recommending Freehand. Another member said that Freehand is not a wavetable synth at all. That it just uses a lookup table and that there was no morphing of the waveform. I got involved as I defended Freehand's right to be included on that list. I won't reply again as I've replied twice and really don't see it as a constructive difference of opinion.He says that looking at it in synthmaker clearly shows that it is only using a lookup table. I just wanted to know your opinion for my own benefit. If you consider this too trivial to reply I can understand as I consider forum debates to be usually non-constructive.
Thank you,
Al
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 06:26
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I think you better direct
I think you better direct that question on the SynthMaker forum. AFAIK it is a wavetable osc component so Freehand is a wavetable synth.
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 06:41
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This is from Wikipedia, it
This is from Wikipedia, it mentions that confusion about it.
Confusion with table-lookup oscillators
"Practical realizations of this principle often employ digital memory to store samples of the single-cycle waveform (see numerically-controlled oscillator). An early non-realtime software implementation, originally called table-lookup oscillator, appeared in MUSIC IV-B. Over time this type of short-memory based oscillator has also become known as wavetable oscillator, which is a degenerate case of wavetable synthesis described above. In wavetable synthesis multiple such single-cycle wavetable oscillators are in use, originally[4] as a table of 64 waveforms with 128 samples each, while the term "wavetable" for this arrangement appeared later in the PPG literature for the PPG Wave[5]. Both variable and (more commonly) fixed sample rate systems can be used"