Import single-cycle waveforms

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#1

Hello,

how can I actually import single-cycle waveforms?

I always end up like this:

wf

I thought it might be because the file is mono, but even in stereo and in 32 bit it is not loaded correctly.

Where is my mistake?

Thank you!

#2

Do you accidentally have any Warp modes turned on for the oscillator? Looks like Bend+/-

This could be a number of things, what format (file type) is the wavetable?

#3

I did not load a wavetable, but dragged a .wav file into the Osc window and converted it via “Wavetable”.

However, it looks as if the .wav file is simply “too short”, it probably needs to be sampled lower (e.g. C1 instead of C4) so that the waveform “fits in”.

Of course that’s a lot of work if all the existing single cycles don’t fit :-/

#4

Could be a conversion thing, yeah
I suspect it may be just too short like you said, apologies I have played around with single cycles in Vital a couple years ago but I totally forget how it turned out :sweat:
check out this other thread there might be some useful info for you

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#5

It’s actually a little difficult.
Vital assumes your wavetables are based on 2048 Samples per Slot (2048 is derived of how many samples would be a full wave form cycle for the note f0 at 44.1Khz. Compute 44100 / 2048. It gives you 21,53, which is very close to 21.82 hz of midi note f0).
Anyways: The problem is that adventure kids single cycles DO NOT FOLLOW the 2048 sample per wavetable slot “standard”. I write “standard” in quotation makrs, because a lot of wavetable synths adhere to it (Icarus, Serum, Avenger, Rapid, …), but it’s not a official standard. There are even some Wave File “properties” that some wavetable editors use to state what cycle length per wavetable slot they assume…

In the end this means you have to somehow adapt the Adventure Kid Single Cycles.
Years back I wrote somthing about “converting” … see here

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