40 years ago, legendary synth designer Wolfgang Palm introduced the world to wavetable synthesis with his PPG Wave 2 synth. Unlike the static waveforms of an analogue oscillator, a wavetable ...

Wavetable synthesis is one of those great ideas that doesn’t easily go away, and in instruments from the PPG Wave through to hit plugins like Massive and Serum, and now Massive X and Vital, this is a ...

In synthesis terms, a wavetable oscillator is a collection of individual waveforms, and you can scan through these with the wave position slider. Step 2: Fans of popular wavetable synths such as Xfer ...

Wavetable synthesis is simply playing a single waveform — one arbitrary wave — at different speeds. It was popular in the 80s and 90s, so it makes for a great application of modern ...

Released a little over 10 years ago, the original Serum was an all-singing, all-dancing wavetable synth designed to balance depth and inspiration. Serum was pitched as a ‘dream synthesizer ...

In 1985 Korg released the DW-8000, an analog-digital hybrid synth that combined at the time cutting edge digital oscillators with analog filters. The Modwave is an all digital take on the DW ...