Wavetable

Wavetable may refer to:

• Waveform table, generally used on digital signal processing.
  • Table-lookup oscillator, appeared on MUSIC II in the late-1950s (Puckette 2002).
    • Table-lookup synthesis — a generic class of sound synthesis methods using Table-lookup oscillators (Curtis Roads 1996, p. 87).
      • Single-cycle wavetable-lookup synthesis — seen on the early computer music, analog/digital hybrid synthesizers, and embedded sound chips in the 1980s-1990s.
        • Multiple wavetable synthesis (Horner, Beauchamp & Haken 1993) developed by Michael McNabb and Wolfgang Palm in the late-1970s — a specific sound synthesis technique typically used on PPG Waves, using an array of single-cycle waveforms to implement wavetable sweeping.
        • Wavetable-modification algorithm — known as Digital waveguide synthesis, especially Karplus-Strong string synthesis.
    • Sample-based synthesis — a class of sound synthesis method using audio samples of arbitrary length.

See also

• w:ja:波形メモリ (音源チップ)   (waveform memory (sound chip))
  • w:ja:波形メモリ音源     (programmable-waveform tone generator)
• w:ja:波形メモリ (電子音源の合成方式) (waveform memory (synthesis))