Single Cycle Waveforms with Octatrack

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#21

I uploaded a whole heap of Octatrack ready SCW’s here

https://www.elektronauts.com/files/459

plus theres other collections that other people have uploaded too :wink:

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#22

Thank you for those. The link in the second post is pretty awesome as well with the way it’s separated into slices. I should really learn how to organize samples like that sometime.

#23

I’d rather choose 128 scw with Start points than Slices, limited to 64, but both are interesting.

Start mode advantage : more waves, can be modulated with crossfader like a wavetable, (slices are changed only when there’s a trig).

Slices mode advantage : you can change slices length, hence pitch them up (it changes the waveform).

3 wavetables I made for OT to download :
Wavetable synthesis

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#24

128 for everything @sezare56. No retreat, no surrender.

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#25

128 years old isn’t reasonable. :content:

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#26

or kids

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#27

Other start mode advantage: no set up :okej:

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#28

Yes, agree that 128 is the way to go.

I’ve made a couple of lo-fi wavetables from my OB-6’s oscillators, which might be of interest to some people. One is PWM (the naturally silent slice at the beginning might fool you, but don’t be fooled) and the other one’s a sweep of shapes (triangle-saw-square). Both are tuned to C4 (169 samples at 44100), which I’ve found to be a useful note.

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#29

This was exactly the thing I was doing, I liked the pseudo quantizing.

How do you know how long to make the loop? You just use a guitar tuner ot something?

#30

Length is 128 x scw length. :slight_smile:

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#31

Ah so the scaling is baked in and any loop length will be a harmonic of C?

#32

Yes if your scw is C tuned. You can have octaves up, not sure about other harmonics.

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#33

I’ve been playing with chains of single cycle waveforms on the OT today, specifically the wavetables from the PPG Wave, sliced into 64 slices. Although it’s not possible to morph smoothly between the waves, it’s still fun to switch between them using the LFOs, parameter locks, and the crossfader. Here’s a simple demo:

Here are the 32 wavetable files in WAV format, with associated sliced .OT files:
https://www.elektronauts.com/files/598

I found the wavetables at WaveEdit Online:
https://www.waveeditonline.com

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