wavetable
Noun
Meaning
wavetable (plural wavetables)
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A collection of many single-cycle waveforms with subtly changing harmonic contents, sometimes based on a sample of a real musical instrument, used in sound synthesis.
Examples
Audio capacity *Six wavetable synthesis audio channels, programmable through the HuC6280A CPU.
Group additive synthesis Group additive synthesis citation citation citation is a method to group partials into harmonic groups (of differing fundamental frequencies) and synthesize each group separately with wavetable synthesis before mixing the results.
Wavetable synthesis main seeAlso In the case of harmonic, quasi-periodic musical tones, wavetable synthesis can be as general as time-varying additive synthesis, but requires less computation during synthesis.