Now THIS was a great video on wavetable synths! Thank you so much! I got my Modwave last year and have neglected it. Getting back into it now - I've been concentrating on my Elektron Digitone and Syntakt for the last eight months - I want to combine my Modwave with them eventually - to make music.
Yes and no. DW8000 had no "drift" through a "wavetable" at all. It had just 16 digital waves. No "morphing" through them at all. They were single cycle waves called DWGS. However, they might have been "multisampled" across the octaves, so every octave has a slight different single cycle to omit nasty overtones as may happen with normal samples. I'm not aware, if on velocity there might have been another "layer" on any "wavetable". But there was definitely no LFO applicable to sift through a lot of layers on a "wavetable" as demonstrated here. DW8000 did not use samples as the M1 did mostly, but single cycle waves, one of which was actually a SAW wave, hence it could be operated like a conventional analog synth of the time. M1's arguably best programs standing the test of time and being most flexible are the ones that use the few DWGS snippets in the array of M1 memory as base for sounds, not the longer samples that made up the Piano16. Now, this MoDWave is mixing the whole bag up. Quite nicely though. To morph through wavetables from different angles is "quite/very" different from a DW8000.
I think the video is really good. The background is well explained and many will understand this cryptic synthesis technique better now. Perfect. Also you seem to be the first one (!), who mapped the wavetable position to an LFO, where all the fun starts with a wavetable synthesizer. I'm not sure, if the LFO's intensity marks the distance from the defined starting position to the farest scanning position. Only do you can find the coolest sweetspots, which often are found between transitions of two waveforms. Unfortunately the Envelopes do not allow looping. It's a shame, Korg didn't build in a dedicated LFO for that task. Enjoy the synth!
Great video and sounds! For someone like me who is in love with the sounds of vector synthesis and the glorious Korg Wavestation, is I well understood the wavetable synthesis is based on the creation of waveforms starting from cycles which, placed in an evolutionary sequence with morphing, create complex waves which evolve even though they last for a limited period of time. Correct? But can the cycles of the waveforms to be mixed (the frames) also be created starting from samples? Can we therefore start from the concept that basically wavetable synthesis can be used to create waveforms which in turn can be placed in sequence in vector/wave-sequence synthesis? I'm this case I would have the "evolution" ... of the "evolution" 🙂 If it is possible sincerely as a neophyte I find wavetable and vector/wave-sequence synthesis with its own sampling much more stimulating and potentially able to create new sounds compared to analog subtractive or virtual analog synthesis.
Nice to come across your channel for the first time, you have been hidden from me until now. Great recording quality for us to listen to this fantastic synth. Great to know, you know, what you are doing! subbed.
Sales pitch to me - Best mini synth of the the year. What I heard in this demo - The exact sound my electric shaver makes when I shave my balls every morning with a little bit of chorus and reverb added. Wtf...
I liked the idea of this Synth but in reality the resolution of the table scanning is way to low resulting in a very harsh sound. A real deal breaker for me🥲
thank you for your video ! is it possible to control a soft synth like omnisphere with the knobs of the new KORG wavestate or MODwave, for me the wavestate’s knobs and vector joystick all send MIDI data so you can use them to control your soft synths. You can turn ‘local control’ off to stop the keys and controls from triggering wavestate’s internal sounds. some people says yes it's possible other no impossible : so, i'm lost !
As long as it outputs MIDI CC's which I'm sure it does for sequencing purposes you would be able to use them to control a softsynth using a 'learn' function or just by mapping it.
You researched it yes? It's a combined sample table of a multitude of different waves. (Very very short ones) the whole concept is that you can scan through the position of the sample as it plays. Think of rapidly (or slowly)scanning through different stations with the tune knob on an old FM radio. You can keep doing so or stop/start at any point in the scan. *Edit By the way the waves are not tied together from starting/end points. They are layered like pages in a book.
Great work on the video! I think the physics controller is probably more interesting in concept than in use. Also, I think the $800 price for a plastic synth is a bit high. Argon8 appears very capable, better build quality and $100 less. I recently picked up a Hydrasynth desktop, which I think is an incredible value for the same price.