Polyphonic Keyboard with up to 8 active voices Choose a preset and tweak or start with a wavetable and get modulating using the following: This free iOS synth creates evolving timbres which range from ethereal pads through to bizarre, tortured basses. At this time digital synthesis and the use of sampling was very restricted in terms of the amount of sampled data which could be stored but very interesting timbral changes could be made by storing many different single cycle samples of waveforms and by arranging them in a list, called a wavetable and playing through the wavetable at different speeds and in different orders constantly changing timbres which couldn’t be achieved using other methods could be achieved with ease.

Wavetable Synthesis was originally developed by Wolfgang Palm and its first implementation was found in the PPG Wave synthesiser of 1980.

UVI Falcon offers wavetable synthesis as one of its many synthesis techniques and if you have Falcon as part of your Pro Tools subscription then you already have access to this technique but for those of us who don’t and want to explore Wavetable synthesis, or even for this of us who do have Falcon but want to explore it on a mobile device then Scythe offers a very capable wavetable synthesiser in iOS and best of all, it’s free. I’ve always loved Wavetable synths, since the Korg Wavestation back in the 90’s some of the most striking sounds I’ve heard have owed something to this overlooked synthesis method.

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