posted 16 March 2009 10:56            

I've found that Renoise tracker is a pretty cool way of drawing or modifying waves and iterating cycles, or cutting single cycles... And to make them always sound like good results in Kyma, I put any processed or generated waves into Kyma's own soundfile editor, and interpolate them to exactly the 4096 sample size , that size at 22050 or 44100 generally works best...

Since Ben's wavetables, there hasn't been much posted - but they are really useful building blocks, and especially good for creating your own 'trademark' IRs, grains , envelopes or waveshapers..

posted 18 March 2009 00:01            

I also love wavetables; I use them more than any other sound source in Kyma. I posted a tool to the Wiki a while back that produces a series of bandlimited wavetables from a single wavetable; you can play each wavetable in the series at twice the pitch of the previous wavetable in the series without aliasing. It uses an FFT to generate the tables. It has worked really well for me. I'd be willing to update or maintain it if anyone else was interested.

I have a bunch of tools of my own that automatically extract single-cycle waveforms from samples, and generate these bandlimited series from them. I've produced wavetables from all the Access Virus waveforms this way, for example.

Thanks for the pointer about Renoise tracker; I'll look into that.

-Luddy

posted 18 March 2009 18:28            

Of course, insects flap their wings at different speeds and in different ways according to their manoeuvres and the weight of pollen being carried, and then there's the doppler effect as well... and so these aren't 'exact' wavetables, but just recorded examples.

posted 21 March 2009 22:56            

The wavetable tool takes a single argument that is a file (wav or aif) with some number of Kyma-style single-cycle wavetables (that is, waveforms with exactly 4096 samples). From each such waveform it generates one output file that contains 11 single-cycle waveforms (each having 4096 samples). The first waveform in the output file is identical to the original, and the later ones have successively less high-frequency content; the 11th waveform is usually a pure sine wave. The 11-waveform output tables are intended to be played back (over 11 octaves) by using the index field of the oscillator sound to select the appropriate wavetable from among the 11, based on playback frequency.

I will try to update the tool when I get a chance, so that the help messages it displays are a bit clearer and more helpful.

posted 23 March 2009 08:15            

CristianStudio:~ cristian$ /Applications/OS\ X\ Audio/KYMA\ X/BLWT/bandlimitwavetables ; exit;
-bash: /Applications/OS X Audio/KYMA X/BLWT/bandlimitwavetables: Bad CPU type in executable
logout

posted 25 March 2009 05:29            

I haven't investigated the possibility of building a universal binary out of it... sorry. If I can figure out how to do that easily, I'll update the program.

posted 25 March 2009 07:11            

studio machine is G5 , but my portable is intel , so I can run it on there....

posted 26 March 2009 17:27            

OctatonicRepliggiator.kym

I just ran in the same question.
Here is an example with the Replicator. Maybe it's not exactly what you want to do tho …

posted 26 March 2009 19:11            

It is on the tweaky here: http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/Share/Sounds#Synthesis

Sound is called 'twistedmultiwaveoscillatorbank.kym'

(Thanks, Cam. Repliggiator is my new favorite word)

posted 27 April 2009 17:04            

Using XenWaves.kym example on the tweaky:
http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/Share/Sounds#Synthesis

you can define several waveforms (saving each of them as a preset snapshot) and then use the InterpolatePresets to smoothly between those waveshapes or use a sequencer to step through them.