MPE Sound Design in Surge XT: Wavetables

In this episode, we take a moderately deep dive into the world of Wavetable synthesis, with a focus on building the wavetable itself using single-cycle samples of acoustic instruments. First we will discuss the special advantages a wavetable gives us, with emphasis on its use for MPE. Then we will put one together in Audacity and finally export it from Vital in the correct format to use it in Surge XT. Full series:    • MPE Sound Design for Surge XT   Get Surge XT here: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ (Free wave editor) Vital: https://vital.audio/ (Free synth) Serum: https://xferrecords.com/products/serum/ (Not free, not required but highly recommended if you decide you love wavetables) And here are some more links. https://thoughtformmusic.com Twitter:   / thoughtform3   Instagram:   / thoughtformmax   facebook:   / thoughtformbymax   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7wNd9... buy me a coffee? https://buymeacoffee.com/thoughtform 00:00 Introduction 06:53 Wavetable Basics 08:05 The Single-Cycle Wave 13:43 Wavetables vs. Samples 14:51 Using wavetables with MPE in Surge 16:15 Filtering Spurious Harmonics 18:23 Other WT parameters in Surge 19:32 A multi-dimensional wavetable 21:42 The Harmonic Fingerprint 23:43 Slicing And Assembling a WT in Audacity 26:10 Wavetable Resolution 30:54 Finding Samples to Use 32:47 Avoiding Discontinuities 35:34 Modeling a Vintage Synth 38:17 Using Vital to export our WT with correct headers 40:53 Bringing the new WT into Surge