Bespoke editors and approaches
There’s a whole host of methods to expand your wavetable creativity…
The wavetable creation methods that we’ve discussed so far involve a fair amount of manual work, but there are a small number of synths that include specialised editing tools. These can take a lot of the complexity out of wavetable creation, but are bespoke to the synth in question and so each has its own particular functionality and workflow.
For example, Steinberg HALion and Xfer Serum analyse the pitch(es) within imported audio and perform the aforementioned awkward time-stretching. Vital, on the other hand, won’t automatically detect pitch, but does let you specify the frame size of the imported waveforms, includes tools for creating and reshaping waveforms, and can export creations as standard 2,048 samples-perframe wavetables.