Wave Sequencing Synthesis: What Is It and How To Do It (Korg Wavestate Tutorial)
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- This tutorial will look closely at the conceptual basis of the Korg Wavestate, what Korg has termed 'wave-sequencing synthesis', but which is known within academic research as 'concatenative synthesis'. This form of audio synthesis works by fusing together audio fragments from different sounds to form a new sound. It is useful to understand the anatomy of a sound in order to take full advantage of this approach to audio synthesis.
For the purposes of this video, we will decompose a sound into two component parts: 1. the attack or transient, and 2. the body or decay. These two parts of a sound have distinct frequency characteristics, and so we can use them individually to create hybrid sounds. We will do this in the Korg Wavestate using both the Sample Lane in a single layer, and by adjusting the amplitude envelope in two layers.
Hope you enjoy!
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Explanation of concatenative synthesis
1:00 - Anatomy of a sound
1:57 - How it works in the Korg Wavestate
2:17 - Intro to the technical portion of the tutorial
2:45 - Using one layer for concatenative synthesis
7:08 - Experimenting with variations for transient and body of sound
9:15 - Using two layers
12:13 - Shaping the transient and body separately
13:15 - Tutorial conlusion
14:14 - Video outro - Hudba
I have to say this was one of THE most helpful video I have watched since getting my wave state. I only have it two weeks so I am very new to it and you broke it down so that my 57 year olds brain could truly understand. I hope you do more of these ! You are great!!!
Wow this is one of the best tutorials of the Wavestate I have seen - very intuitive and clear. and I don't even own one!
This is a very valuable and well articulated tutorial. Most of the videos on this subject show off the Wavestate. But to understand the Wavestate, something significantly different from both a "normal" (ie. subtractive) synth and a sampler, we have to understand the structure of this method. These synths are very deep because of what you explain so well. Not the kind of gear you can easily pull out of the box and move quickly beyond the presets. But that's their strength too.
Clear, interesting and useful.
Thank you
That’s what I’m going for! Thanks for watching :-)
Love your in depth approach at the wavestate. Thx for your work! Greatly appreciated ✌🇨🇦👍
Thanks for the tutorials Bluey, makes the decision to buy easier knowing you're holding my hand during the learning curve.😀
avec plaisir! :-) good luck surfing the wavestate~
Great Video! these are the types of tutorials that are needed, keep up the great work! :)
So damn true
I love your Wavestate Tutorials. I hope, there is more to come. I bought one on my own and was completely flashed. In lack of tutorials I was helpless lost to do the things, the synth is capable of. Thanks to your tutorials, I know have an idea of what am I able to do and which amazing sounds I am able to create.
So, please keep on with those tutorials. Big thumbs up! 👍
Great video. Just what I needed. Thank you.
This was always what I was hoping could be achievable on the wavestate but every video seems to show almost full tracks which is not that exciting to me. I think i'm finally "getting" the wavestate and it might be next on my list, will look nice next to my MLXD and offer something other synths don't.
What a brilliant tutorial on building complete new sounds, that are truly unique.. This synth just keeps on giving and giving.. There are so many tutorials that just repeat each other, but this one is fantastically different. It has given me the key to make those sounds that are in my head, that no sample pack (I have found) were not sounding just right to me.. So thank you for this new page in truly building my own unique Basses, Leads, even blazing drum hits.. 👍🏼👍🏼🇮🇪🍀🎼
Very helpful!! I’ll be watching more of your stuff for sure!!!
Excellent video! Someday, Wavestate, some day I'll have you.
Starting with the concept and then going in was perfect. Excellent teaching skill. This is the first video that got me to love this machine instead of be mostly afraid of it! lol (still a little afraid at the vast sea of potential...) Thank you!!
Excellent tutorial!!
Fab tutorial, thanks!
Brilliant tutorial!
Awesome tutorial, thank you !
I sold my equipment years ago and focused on the flute for a while. I got a wavestate as i get back into the electronics again. Very different style of synthesis than I'm used to and no book with the machine. These Tutorials help a lot! So very grateful. So. How do you save your creations?
There’s a write function for saving patches in the Wavestate. I’m glad you’ve find those tutorials to be helpful, and that you’re enjoying your rediscovery of electronics :-) Happy patching
Great tutorial, thank you, this really helped me with my Wavestate. Looking forward to more.
excellente vidéo 👌
The wavestate is deep but the deeper you delve the more amazing the results
Nice tutorial and thanks for introducing “concatenation “
Amazing machine with endless permutations
I actually think it should just be called "Sequencing Synthesis" IMO. The reason I think so is because on the Minilogue XD you can use its "Motion Sequencing" abilities to shape the sound of it's synthesis. So in general both the Minilogue XD, and the Wavestate can both use sequencing techniques to affect the overall sound, thus "Sequencing Synthesis" can be used in 2 different ways on both synthesizers. Great video and tutorial BlueCliff. This should help anyone having trouble understanding this awesome synth :)
I like that term, and think that "sequencing synthesis" is an accurate description! Thanks for watching :-)
Ahhhh. Good to know. I have been checking out both to decide. I feel the wavestate can do more or has another dimension to its capabilities.
The sequencing on the Minilogue, and many other synths, is most likely modulation sequence (eg. volume, filter changes, etc.). Modulation sequencing has been around almost as long as proper synthesizers. The original Moog modular synths included the ability to change modulation parameters over time. This is a little different from "synthesis" but in the general sense, it can be considered as such.
It does get potentially confusing as there are so many ways to sequence in synthesis. You can sequence the note data (which is very common, including on the Minilogue, but also via many tools like Beatstep).
You can also can sequence the modulation. This can happen in addition to note sequencing on some synths. Korg is great about this. I got hold of a Korg RADIAS in early 2000s for this reason.
But the Wavestate (and its heritage, the Wavestation) is fundamentally different in that it is sequencing wave files (samples) by both stacking them ("vertically") and chaining (concatenating) them together ("horizontally"). What's more, you also have modulation sequencing on top of that! Not sure if it has a note sequencer. But this is a fairly unique beast, I think. If the samples and audio quality sound good, which they seem to, you've got a real powerful sound design tool here. Especially when you can bring in your own samples.
This is a very helpful video. However, for anyone looking for full Wavestate tutorials check out the CZcams series of videos from XNB and from Qui Robinez. They are the most comprehensive and thorough of any tutorials I have found.
Awesome. I’ve had this thing for a year and learned more in one watch of this video than I have in the last year. Actually not so much learned as understood.
The Roland D50 was doing Concatenation long before it was cool.
The possibilities of this machine are infinite to say the least.
Can you think of a general guideline for setting the cross-fade based on the length of the transient?
Thanks. This was helpful, but...
OT and MPC in the same set-up?
hehe, oh for sure! very different sounds and work flows for those two devices.
@@bluecliffsynthesis6685 Been looking for a reason not to take the plunge. This was not helpful ; )
Man this thing is awesome, but very very very complicated
Hi How can I reset the Wavestadte to factory settings?
Does the arpeggiators output midi?
Can someone answer me please if i can sequence one bass
hytm preset and play solo\improvisin on another preset separately on this synth?
yes,you can split the keyboard so the upper notes,for example,only affec to one layer (one sound)
what I'm hearing is that it's like d50 linear synthesis but you get full control over the transient sample
there is definite kinship to the d50! the wavestate itself has many more features than the d50, but the underlying idea behind its synthesis is very similar to the d50.
@@bluecliffsynthesis6685 @cktable Great video!!! My D-50 yes, or my Elektron SID Station or my Alesis Quadrasynth. Called LA synthesis by Roland, but before you correct me, obviously Wavestate does a lot more than these keyboard sounds you make here. I REALLY don't need another synth, because there is simply no room in my 2 bedroom terraced home. So many synths, so little time...