• Wavetable synthesis is a sound synthesis technique used to create quasi-periodic waveforms often used in the production of musical tones or notes. Wavetable...
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  • Look up wavetable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wavetable may refer to: Wavetable synthesis, a sound synthesis technique used to create periodic...
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  • Reality, which combined previously used forms of synthesis such as PCM, wavetable, FM, additive and physical modeling. This helped integrate software synthesizers...
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    commercial wavetable software synthesizer plugin manufactured by Native Instruments for use in professional audio production. It utilizes several wavetables and...
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    previously through its Edirol subsidiary as the HyperCanvas. Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, included in instances of DirectX as an integral part of DirectMusic...
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    Waldorf Music is a German synthesizer company best known for its Microwave wavetable synthesizer and Blofeld virtual analogue synthesizer. Waldorf Electronics...
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    moved in the mid-1990s toward wavetable-based soundcards with 16-bit playback but standardized on a 2 MB of wavetable storage, a space too small in which...
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    resulted in PPG's first wavetable synthesizer, the Wavecomputer 360 (1978), which provides the user with 30 different wavetables consisting of 64 waves...
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    implemented in Casio CZ synthesizers, is similar to FM synthesis. In wavetable synthesis, synthesizers modulate smoothly between digital representations...
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  • data. Music can be synthesized either in hardware, in the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, or in a custom synthesizer. DirectMusic was first released by...
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    voices with limited effects, wavetable lookup 2 Sound Effects/Music Three voices with sound effects, modified wavetable lookup 3 Max Voice Six voices...
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    and color similar to the Amiga and Atari ST, and a 32 channel Ensoniq wavetable synthesis chip. Bundled with a mouse, it is the first computer from Apple...
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  • z-transform analysis. However, it can also be viewed as the simplest class of wavetable-modification algorithms now known as digital waveguide synthesis, because...
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  • sine wave generators. Alternative implementations may use pre-computed wavetables or the inverse fast Fourier transform. The sounds that are heard in everyday...
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  • effectively becoming a de-facto standard until they were supplanted by "wavetable synthesis" cards in the early-to-mid 1990s. The internal operation of...
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    named the 2C33. The ASIC acts as a disk controller, plus single-cycle wavetable-lookup synthesizer sound hardware. Finally, embedded in the 2C33 is an...
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  • CMI, first available in 1979. These early sampling synthesizers used wavetable sample-based synthesis. In 1980, a group of musicians and music merchants...
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    controlled", but true digital oscillators, provided by a custom Ensoniq wavetable chip. The signal path includes analog resonant low-pass filters and an...
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    convert digital data to analog sound signals Full stereo capabilities Wavetable synthesis and AM synthesis A clock control block, incorporating timers...
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    to conflict with AC-97 and AC-99 sound card standards (which specify 'wavetables' (sample tables) based on Roland’s XG-competing GS sound system, which...
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    MIDI compliant synthesizer. For General MIDI scores, the Wave Blaster's wavetable-engine produced more realistic instrumental music than the SB16's onboard...
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  • common) Based on Yamaha YMF262 (OPL3) silicon-gate CMOS chip. Includes wavetable interface. Two modes, one "OPL2/3 compatible" and the other the native...
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    resulted in lower retail prices for consumers. The add-on also has a new wavetable synthesis sound channel and more data storage for the Famicom's audio...
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    specifications Polyphony 8 voices Timbrality 8 Oscillator 3× single-cycle wavetable-lookup oscillators per voice, 43 additional waveforms (including 5 drum-kit)...
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    PC platform with sample-based music synthesis technology (marketed as "wavetable"), that is the ability to use real-world sound recordings rather than...
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    Max simultaneous colors: 481 on screen Max sprites: 64 Audio: 6-voice wavetable synthesis The TurboLink allows two-player play. Falcon, a flight simulator...
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    modem tasks in software rather than in hardware. In the early days of wavetable synthesis, some sound card manufacturers advertised polyphony solely on...
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  • chip and WaveFront wavetable, Yamaha OPL3 FM. IDE interface. Tropez32 – OEM TBS-2000 with only 1MB half sample ROM for wavetable. Sold as part of the...
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    MPU-401 compatible UART via game port; A connector for the Wave Blaster, a 'Wavetable' daughterboard. Eventually this design proved so popular that Creative...
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  • multimedia PC, under the names such as wavetable card or wavetable daughterboard.[citation needed] (See Wavetable synthesis#Background) The principal advantage...
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