Drawable Waveforms

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:35 am

My needs are simple: I want a device that will allow me to draw waveforms and/or harmonic profiles with a mouse to form a wavesource for a synth. Amiga owners might recall a program called Sonics. It was incredibly primitive by today's standards, but at least it allowed you to draw your own waveform in addition to the usual tri/sin/saw/sqr/noise shapes. Imagine being able to draw 8 of them and combine them in an additive context. Gotta be some interesting possibilities there.

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subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:09 pm

I like this idea. Have you played much with the Creamware Vectron?

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 10:26 pm

I've played with the Vectron Player, but I don't have the full Vectron (my Scope is only the SRB version). I might have to investigate further and see if it's worth purchasing. Certainly sounds like it has good potential.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:11 am

If you use Samplitude, you can do it. Then you just record it with a sampler and put it into the mod2.

Immanuel

David · Post by **David** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 5:49 pm

Hi, here is a link to a related request that I made earlier this year. It has some interesting replys. Lets hope that this device/module gets built

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 97&forum=5

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Post by **garyb** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 9:52 pm

In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Issac Watts (1674-1748)

he should know......

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Sun Aug 25, 2002 1:01 am

On 2002-08-24 18:49, Marlin Spike wrote:
Hi, here is a link to a related request that I made earlier this year. It has some interesting replys. Lets hope that this device/module gets built

Thanks for the link Marlin, there are some very interesting ideas in that thread. I'm glad you brought up the 3D idea too. At first I thought it might be too much effort for little gain, but now that I think about it, the guy who wrote the 3D waveform routines for the Fairlight did a fantastic job with just a 6800 and 16K of memory! Surely it wouldn't be too much of a challenge for a Sharc programmer these days.

I guess the Vectron is the closest we can get in the meantime.

Makes me wanna take up programming... If only I had the time