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Everyone Can Play Music #21: Understanding Wavetables

As per requests in the recent Animoog Timbres article, this ECPM lesson is all about how to meaningfully play with those timbres! This should also be helpful for people planning on grabbing the PPG Wavegenerator app, as it uses similar principles.

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Reader Comments (13)

Awesome video.. It's fun just watching someone else who knows what they're doing play around. I'd love to see the same type of thing with tc-11. Throw in some ideas, experimenting and maybe a small tutorial on something specific you think is cool.

August 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymouse

Really nice video, Tim. I never had much fun with synths until I used Animoog. The interface is so simple, but as you show in this video, it's a really deep synth capable of making complex, crazy sounds.

August 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterHypersleep

I think you really have to thank Moog for keeping the tweakable params down.
More knobs to tweak just overwhelm the interface too...i think a lot of people love to play animoog since you can just weak it so much to understand what changes.

The other most awesome thing with animoog is the Random Preset feature. I wish others really had this too...should be made mandatory ...along with Undo button ;-)
Tc-11 needs to have a random too....sometimes we want start with soemthing and build on it and not a clean plate

Great job with the video Tim...looking forward how you deep dive in PPG now !!,

August 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterPat

also interested in a TC-11 vid here, I've not got it yet and the apparent complexity has put me off so far.. but I'm really interested in it anyway. I'd also be interested in a vid about different ways there are on IOS to compose a song, with focus on audio copy paste since that's the most common and (so far) most powerful way to use lots of apps on one device. I often find myself with plenty of little snippits from various apps but a bit daunted by putting it all together- keeping key consistent, tempo, how to actually make sounds fit together sonically when you're trying to juggle 5 different apps and synths

August 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterRMG

Great video, thank you!

September 1, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterPiotr

Thanks for a great tutorial! I have the app but never knew much about timbres until now.

In terms of other ECPM ideas how about Stochastic Drum. I have the app but really haven't tried messing around with it. In fact, I don't get the whole sequencer thing much at all.

September 1, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterBob

Thanks guys! And thanks for the suggestions.

Bob: I keep waiting for Stochastik to get the long awaited MIDI update. If/when that happens, I'll definitely be doing something with it!

September 1, 2012 | Registered CommenterTim Webb

There's a manual for Animoog, but the video actually makes what's going on comprehensible. Nicely done!
http://www.moogmusic.com/sites/default/files/AnimoogManualWeb_0.pdf

In the video, when you have the actual timbre wave form overlay -- is that some feature you've found in Animoog, or something else (Audacity, maybe?).

September 1, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterFessaboy

Yeah yeah fessaboy has strong point, how you freeze waveform for all to see?

September 1, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterChezzdog

Yes, I used Adobe Audition to open up the .wav file and look at it. This can be a pretty insightful way to see why some timbres sound so interesting.

September 1, 2012 | Registered CommenterTim Webb

Awesome video and +1000 music theory nerd points for correctly pronouncing "timbres"!

September 3, 2012 | Unregistered Commentervictor

HA! Yea, I'm still a little embarrassed about my pronunciation of timbres in the first Animoog video, almost immediately after trying to correct people's mispronunciation of Moog!

September 3, 2012 | Registered CommenterTim Webb

Tim, thank you for another great and informative video! I asked for this and you truly delivered. Thank you for making it sensible and surmountable. Definitely more useable now that I know the process to play with it more effectively. Keep up the great work...

I have to say that you should get/give Sunvox a run for your money. It is loads of fun with semi-modular synthesis too and it even does image to sound conversions which are amazing... Maybe you could add that to ECPM series. I know you have mentioned some hesitations with trackers, but it is now essentially more of a real time midi track recorder with synthesis and sampling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColyxxBzeiE

September 4, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMarlow77
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