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    Exploring Timbral Changes With Wavetable Synths

    Dec 31, 2019 3 minutes
    By Jerry Kovarsky

    This month is dedicated to taking the concepts I recently taught you about in previous issues and adding additional functions to your bends and modulation (EM September and October 2019), and exploring them using wavetable synths.

    What’s A Wavetable?

    A very basic explanation is that wavetable synthesis offers up small slices of sampled or digitally generated waveforms that are placed next to each other in a table, which can be swept through to create interesting timbral changes.

    First developed by Wolfgang Palm (of Waldorf fame), it has been featured

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