modwave ⁽⁶⁾

Last time I posted (a while ago) was on the topic of the waveshaper in the modwave. Since then, I had a realisation, followed by some discoveries, culminating in an epiphany. The waveshaper is just mapping input levels to output levels, so instead of inputting…

This page has been superseded by the post "On effects in Korg synths." The Korg modwave has an extensive Pre FX section with compression, saturation/distortion (via the Amp models), decimation (for additional/finer control than the Oscillator Mod Vintage and Steps settings), ring mod [the Note…

A4 "posters" with different visualisations of the Korg modwave's (v1.1.3) factory wavetables. Download links (left-to-right): The code used to generate these plots is here.

The Korg modwave supports float32-per-sample, 2048 sample-per-wave, 1-64 wave-per-wavetables. The modwave Editor Librarian software can load .wav files in this format, or also 16-bit-per-sample, 512 sample-per-wave .wav files, which are converted on import. It can reportedly also import some other wavetable formats and will convert…

Links fb Korg Modwave Community. Qui Robinez has some nice youtube tutorials. Oscillator Sink has some nice youtube tutorials. Korg has some patches of the week on youtube. Ian Dixon has tutorial videos and lots of patches/performances inspired by classic synths. Free software Vital (free…