40 years ago, legendary synth designer Wolfgang Palm introduced the world to wavetable synthesis with his PPG Wave 2 synth. Unlike the static waveforms of an analogue oscillator, a wavetable ...

Every semester at one of [Bruce Land]’s electronics labs at Cornell, students team up, and pitch a few ideas on what they’d like to build for the final project. Invariably, the students will pick what ...

Wavetable synthesis is nothing new; it first appeared in the hardware realm in the early ’80s with the launch of Wolfgang Palm’s PPG Wave, later followed by a string of influential hardware synths ...

In this week’s episode of The Logic Pros, we will take one final look at some of the new additions to Logic Pro X 10.1. We have already gotten a taste of a number of very helpful new features ...

You no longer need to spend big bucks to get your hands on a wavetable synth plugin. In fact, you can download Socalabs’ Wavetable - a new open-source option - for ...

For all the wonder of dulcet tones coming from a century-old music box, we’ve got to admit that [Markus]’ wavetable synthesis build is still pretty impressive. Of course, the Internet cred gained by ...

Xfer Records has officially released Serum 2, a major update to its popular wavetable synthesizer plugin. This update significantly expands its synthesis capabilities by adding new oscillator types, ...

Before digging into the software side of things, let’s talk hardware. The Fireball and Lemondrop are just palette-swapped versions of each other: one a rich red, the other a yellow that might be ...

A technique used by everyone from Tangerine Dream to Skrillex, wavetable synthesis adds new dimensions of texture and movement to your sound design. But how does it work? 40 years ago, legendary synth ...