Wavetable Page

Wavetable synthesis is a somewhat different beast compared to most other synthesis algorithms on the Woovebox. Extensive table scanning controls (e.g. the way a patch scans/morphs through the table of waveforms) are rather important for a successful and versatile implementation.

To accomplish this, the Woovebox engine repurposes the amplitude of oscillator 2 for table scanning position duties. This means that anything that would normally control the amplitude signal of oscillator 2 (such as the level, amplitude envelope generator or amplitude LFO) is now redirected to the wavetable scanner. Some other parameters that are not (or less) useful for wavetable synthesis are also repurposed for more useful - though still related - duties (for example the phase start / Ph.St under 11/A3 on the Osc1/Osc2 pages now controls not the phase start, but rather the scan start position).

To avoid a lot of back-and-forth between pages, if the algorithm ('ALGo' under 3/Ld on a track's GLob page) is set to 'Wtab', a special wavetable page of parameters is inserted between the Amplitude ('AMPL') and Filter ('FLtr') pages.

This page replicates a number of useful parameters in one page, minimizing the need to scroll between pages. Please note however, that these sixteen parameters do not cover the full extent of tweakable wavetable parameters (notably the AEG2 attack/decay/sustain/release controls are absent from this page and must still be set on the Amplitude/'AMPL' page). Some of these parameters are renamed aliases for other parameters to better reflect their use in wavetable synthesis. For example, the scanning LFO is an alias for oscillator 2's amplitude LFO on the 'AMPL' page; they are really the same parameter, and changing one changes the other and vice versa. Please note that the hold-parameter-for-help Woovconnect documentation, will refer to the non-wavetable use of the parameter, and not the wavetable-specific repurposing/aliasing. For a wavetable-specific interpretation of the parameters, please use the wavetable page documentation.

For its wavetable sources, the wavetable synthesis relies on standard 32Kb / 8 x 8 x 256 sample wavetables "samples". These "samples" exist as regular sample slices in one of the user kits or the factory kit (the latter contains 8 slices / wavetables). You may choose the kits by using 1/Cd/kit.1 or 5/Ki/kit.2 for oscillator 1 and oscillator 2 repsectively. Choosing a regular oscillator (for example 'Sqr1' or 'SSW4') instead of a FS.01 or US.01 - US.16 kit will yield unexpected results. The wavetable synthesis will still regard these waveforms as "sample material", slice these up into 64 cycles and scan between them accordingly. Similarly, picking non-wavetable material slices (2/bS/wav.1 or 6/Sn/wav.2) from the kits as "wavetables" will yield unexpected (but potentially interesting) results.