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How do I use sampled waveforms for my synth?

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inverseroom ·

Hi everyone---I'm a new user, and this is my first question. A casual search didn't turn up an answer. Is there some tutorial on how to get my sampled waveforms into my synth? I'm sampling the raw waves of a particular synth in order to emulate it...I have samples from every C and F#. Is this overkill? Can Synthmaker interpolate without aliasing? Is it even something I can do?

The machine I intend to emulate, BTW, is a Yamaha YC-series combo organ...which should be a pretty simple first project!

inverseroom ·

OK, I just found the wave table read module, just like Stefan said. I'll give it a whirl tonight! But can anyone tell me how well this works...whether I should put in multisampled waves, or just one representative one, or what?

Is it really possible that I can toss a single sampled wave in there, and Synthmaker will create a whole keyboard full of alias-free doppelgangers? Yowza! 😀 I would really love to hear about other users' experience with this...

stefan ·

inverseroom wrote: Is it really possible that I can toss a single sampled wave in there, and Synthmaker will create a whole keyboard full of alias-free doppelgangers? Yowza! 😀 I would really love to hear about other users' experience with this...

That is exactly what it is there for 🙂

inverseroom ·

stefan wrote: inverseroom wrote: Is it really possible that I can toss a single sampled wave in there, and Synthmaker will create a whole keyboard full of alias-free doppelgangers? Yowza! 😀 I would really love to hear about other users' experience with this...

That is exactly what it is there for 🙂

Holy Moses, Stefan, that's awesome. Does the module care what pitch I use, or is it all the same? Middle C maybe?

Also, does it have to be a perfectly looped, single cycle of the audio sample, or can it be a larger WAV?

inverseroom ·

OK, sorry to harp on this question...but the module is telling me my sample is incompatible. As a test, I used Audacity to chop out a single cycle of a sample from a Micromoog I used to have. It's just a 16/44.1 WAV, PCM. What do I need to do with it to make it work?

Tom7777 ·

Welcome inverseroom 😀

inverseroom ·

Tom7777 wrote: Welcome inverseroom 😀

Thanks, Tom...I appreciate everyone enduring my newbiehood!

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