[sdiy] wavetable lookup waves

Paul Maddox Paul.Maddox at wavesynth.com
Fri Dec 28 20:59:30 CET 2001


John,

> Now, since all of these bits are available, but there is significant
> redundancy is there some clever method of building wavetables of greater
> resolution in the same size ROM?

yep, do it the PPG way...

> Could waves be mirrored; count, change sign then count again?

Thats the puppy!
use half cycle waveforms... :-)
Thats how the PPG did it (ok it did a little more than that to generate the
2048 waveforms held in its little case)

> Could wave segments be stored on ROM B and then be pointed at by ROM A?
> (Sorta, kinda like a state machine.) (Granular sound?)

Interesting thought..

Paul





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