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Standalone, off-line waveform generator?
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:01 pm
by roby
anyone know of any Windows standalone programs that generate short waves for loading into samplers, etc.?
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:07 pm
by Tone Deft
Henke made a program to to just that
http://www.monolake.de/downloads/download_software.html
check out Mams 0.92, a .ams generator
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:43 pm
by roby
oh Mac only....
I should have said for Windows
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:49 pm
by Nod
And if you ain't on a Mac or a Max/MSP owner you could try this:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jez.price/effects.htm
Rndwave! 1.2 - 16/24-bit Wave Shape Generator/Recorder
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:57 pm
by Tone Deft
roby wrote:oh Mac only....
I should have said for Windows
get the FREE max runtime and you can use it.
I haven't tried it yet.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:03 pm
by bgc
Works fine with the runtime.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:33 pm
by Machinate
I'm sorry for sounding all sarky about this, but:
"Any synthesizer, software or hardware"?
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:38 pm
by The Crane
thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that before
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:48 pm
by roby
Machinate wrote:I'm sorry for sounding all sarky about this, but:
"Any synthesizer, software or hardware"?
no problem.
i'm actually looking for a specific application but i cannot remember it's name for the life of me, so i figured i may as well see what people suggest and maybe i'll see a link for it. it was a wave generator thingy but you could select not only frequency, but also the note value, or a range of notes from low to high. and the reason i want a generator is to experiment with the samples generated and make messed up instruments on my sampler...
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:51 pm
by Machinate
roby wrote:Machinate wrote:I'm sorry for sounding all sarky about this, but:
"Any synthesizer, software or hardware"?
no problem.
i'm actually looking for a specific application but i cannot remember it's name for the life of me, so i figured i may as well see what people suggest and maybe i'll see a link for it. it was a wave generator thingy but you could select not only frequency, but also the note value, or a range of notes from low to high. and the reason i want a generator is to experiment with the samples generated and make messed up instruments on my sampler...
Oh I definitely hear ya there!
As a tip I'd load up your favourite synth patch, turn off the amp env and the filter, and then resample it and chuck it in your sampler... mmmmm..
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:51 am
by forge
roby wrote:Machinate wrote:I'm sorry for sounding all sarky about this, but:
"Any synthesizer, software or hardware"?
no problem.
i'm actually looking for a specific application but i cannot remember it's name for the life of me, so i figured i may as well see what people suggest and maybe i'll see a link for it. it was a wave generator thingy but you could select not only frequency, but also the note value, or a range of notes from low to high. and the reason i want a generator is to experiment with the samples generated and make messed up instruments on my sampler...
Actually that does sound like you are talking about the AMS generator Tone linked - the Max runtime is free and it works fine on PC - I use it
definitely give that a go
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:56 am
by Michael Hatsis
For PC check out zero x seemless looper, great loop finding program and it has a wave generator, a bit more flexible than the ams generator...
Also, If you download the demo of max MSP, check out some of the MSP tutorials/help files, lots of wave generators in there, you really dont even need to know how to use max to use these. just resample them in Live...
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:00 am
by forge
mike@TrackTeam Audio wrote:For PC check out zero x seemless looper, great loop finding program and it has a wave generator, a bit more flexible than the ams generator...
Also, If you download the demo of max MSP, check out some of the MSP tutorials/help files, lots of wave generators in there, you really dont even need to know how to use max to use these. just resample them in Live...
then I guess Pd might be a free alternative?
OH BTW - if you just want simple waveforms go into the Live Library>samples>waveforms there;s already quite a few in there
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:05 am
by Michael Hatsis
Never really looked at the tutorial files for PD. But you can prob even use the runtime to go through the tutorials/help files. you really dont even have to edit anything, just tweak the number boxes, function envs...and youll be able to make tons of waveforms.... i guess thats basically the same thing that machinate said though, but with maxpatches...been using max too much lately
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:37 am
by littlepig
You could try audiomulch:
http://www.audiomulch.com/
That has quite a few generators and there are some example patches that are useful for generating waveforms.
Or there is a utility called 'paulstretch' :
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Which will do extreme stretching on samples. If you use that it can yield some interesting waveforms.