I’ve seen this mentioned in a couple of places, but not found answers to this yet …
after a basic look on the webpage
the compatibility list seems to cover everything … it looks very configurable to whatever wavetable requirements you want to setup with digitakt… 48k etc.
and theres this…
We are making updates and corrections to this list CONSTANTLY, our Wavetable Creator should cover most if not all the tools and synths that can load custom wavetables, if you have any questions to a particular tool/synth just reach us in contact section.
plus you could download the tonverk OS and grab those wavetables, see if they work and use those same parameters …
it looks standalone…there no mention of vst/au or mention of compatible daw’s ,… the manual just indicates ’ click on the exe’ for example…
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it mentions digitone in the manual … though i suspect thats wrong ??..
frame size 256 , cycle count ‘varies’ … i presume this would be the slice amount ??.. i dont know.
Aha … I downloaded the manual but missed that. Thank you.
Don’t know about DN, but DT appears to need a frame size of 367 or 734 to match the factory tables … anything else is out of tune, e.g. frame size of 512 samples, would need to be tuned down 6.23 semitones to make it into a ‘C’ like the factory tables.
That’s a pretty unique requirement … doesn’t appear in the manuals compatibility tables.
i wasnt aware digitone could import wavetables … thats why i thought maybe they put in the wrong device name.
Thanks for teaching me the math. I’m the type of “let’s throw anything in the DT and tune it by ear” or with a guitar tuner. This might come in handy and save some time.
The answers:
Digitakt is really flexible about the wavetable format. The way I use it is to have a sample in a grid machine with 64 slices that loops the playback. The number of samples per slice doesn’t matter that much. That said, when I developed Wave Sculptor to create wavetables for my Digitakt I have it create 64 steps that are 367 samples each to match the single cycle waveforms that come with it. A single cycle waveform with 367 samples at 48khz it is tuned to about C3.
Wave Sculptor is different than this software, but if you try it out and have any feedback I’d appreciate it. Wavetables on the DT are pretty amazing, no matter where they come from. I end up playing my Digitakt more like a synth with complex oscillators than like a drum machine…
You can get away with almost anything, but it matters when
But, yes, I’m being picky.
haha love it! I am also very picky… I made the Digitakt preset for Wave Sculptor to be 367 samples, but I also made it so you can make your own presets and have an arbitrary number of samples per step and allow you to set it by either the number of samples or the note you want it closest to. My goal was to make it so that each step would always be the same size and be a complete cycle of a waveform so you don’t have to do things like fading at the edge of a step or hearing a buzzing sound from clipping a waveform (unless this is what you want).
In Wave Sculptor, the number of samples per step is separate from the waveforms in the wavetable, so technically you could make a series of wavetables that have the same timbre but at different step lengths, therefore different frequencies/notes. I don’t know if something like that would help you out.
If you have other requests or wish list items on a wavetable app…let me know!
I am noticing something else which makes me think that a larger waveform for each step in the wavetable is preferable. The larger the waveform the more frequencies you can have within the sound (there are probably more precise words for this).
What I mean is that if you have a step that holds a SCW at C3, even if it is complex with lots of other things, the lowest frequency sound there will be C3. You could have higher frequencies and transients in there, but there’s not a lot of space there for a variety of sound.
I realized this when I was working with my C3 wavetables and felt that with filtering they were really bland…so I regenerated some of them at C1, which is 1467 samples per step. I also used lots of waveforms at higher frequencies, which created lots of transients. Sounded much better when filtered.
All of this to say, I think that a larger waveform size creates better quality sound. Do you see the same thing? I am considering a larger step size for the Digitakt setting in my app. Thanks!
That all makes sense. But then put that onto the dt2 and see how high you can tune it. At about +4 octaves it won’t go any further. But you’ll for sure get those higher frequencies when you’re tuned between C1 and C3.
To cover all bases, you should probably have both available.
Yes, I just jammed with the table at C1 and it was great, but very hard to get the higher notes as you said. I am adding the ability to group wavetables into a pack. You will be able to change a setting like this for all the wavetables in a pack and export them so you could have the same wavetables but at different frequencies based on what you are doing.