A technique used by everyone from Tangerine Dream to Skrillex, wavetable synthesis adds new dimensions of texture and movement to your sound design. But how does it work?

Get to know this synthesis method by its basics, then discover the more innovative sides of today’s forward-thinking wavetable synth plugins ...

Step 1: To kick off, let’s fire up the Live 10 beta and have a play with Wavetable, the brand new two-oscillator wavetable synth. In synthesis terms, a wavetable oscillator is a collection of ...

A wavetable synth isn’t a deep application of a weird reverse FFT — that’s FM synthesis. Wavetable synthesis is simply playing a single waveform — one arbitrary wave — at different speeds.

The Fireball is very much a bread-and-butter wavetable synth. It comes with 103 wavetables and 123 presets covering everything from growly ‘90s bass tones to crystalline pads.

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 ...

Other synthesis types that are becoming more popular include physical modelling – which models real (and sometimes off-) world acoustic instrument properties – and granular, where your source is ...

Before we get to the sacrifices, let's run through the features. The Craft 2 is a monophonic wavetable synthesizer. That means, theoretically, you can only play one note at a time. However, a ...

As Serum 2 shakes up the competition, we pit five of the most powerful, flexible and full-featured synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025 ...