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alright, so I’m only 10 years late to this, but wavetable synths are awesome. they allow you to basically scroll through a number of waveforms and this keeps the sound always evolving, nice and fresh.

you can, of course, draw your own waveforms, or import wavetables from different sources, BUT, up until recently, I hadn’t realised that you could actually import SAMPLES as well. and, well, you know me, I love samples, and I love samplers.

there are some best practices to import samples of course, but I do like to live dangerously, and I personally break this rule quite often. If I find a sound of any kind that I like, I just import it, and play around with it, and see what makes sense. maybe it only works in a very specific range of the wavetable, maybe it only works on a specific single wave. You have to trust your ears. and a tuner. a tuner helps actually.

I'm using Vital, which is just an INSANE free synth maad by Matt Tytel, go check it out: https://vital.audio/

#vitalsynth #wavetable

0:00 intro
0:47 what is wavetable?
2:11 what do samples have to do with wavetables...?
2:40 best practices for importing samples in Vital
3:02 importing a sample in Vital and making a wavetable out of it
4:42 Roland's brilliant usage of wavetable synthesis
5:24 rules are made to be broken
6:25 some cool sounds from unusual sources
7:56 a tune made only with wavetables