Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

>From: Simon <simon@...>

>Are there any Evolver wavetable editing programs available, or being worked 
>on?
>
well, I'd really like to write one, as I need a project to learn windows 
programming... but to be honest, I think that by the time I learn about 
system calls, someone else will have written one already...
My programming experience is for systems with up to 64k of memory space. 
Actually, my strongest programming language is a soldering iron.
:-P

>Are the Evolver wavetables compatible with other wavetable synths?

I don't think so. Evolver user waves are 16 bit signed. Microwave are 12 
bit.

>Is
>there any other wavetable editing software available that could be
>adapted to work with Evolver wavetables?
>
Not really.

>Would there be any point in being able to edit wavetables yourself?
>
Evolver doesn't have wavetables, it has user waves.

That's something that got me before too.... I was confusing the ROM waves in 
the evolver with a wavetable (though I still think a mod destination for 
oscillator wave would be an awesome addition to the evolver)

Remember there is just one wave list, with the waves stored in an arbitrary 
fashion. so you can't define the sequence of waves that would get swept 
through like you can in a waldorf or PPG wavesynth.

Evolver is a vector synth, and does its magic by just having four waveforms 
in a patch, and then mixing between them.

>Would you need to just pencil in on a waveform, or paste audio in
>from other sources?
>
My program, if I were to write it, would let you draw waveforms, and would 
let you mathematically define waveforms (ie, would draw the waveform for you 
based on a mathematic description)

Copying audio from something else may be useful, but would be *very* 
limited. remember a waveform slot in the evolver is just 128 words. so its 
not a sample as such, it's a single cycle.

>What sort of features would you need in a wavetable editor?
>
create/define waveform
upload
download
save to disk
load from disk


julian


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