Single cycle waveforms
I have been making and collecting one cycle waveforms for years. They have been one of my best weapons to use when making sounds. If you have a wavetable synthesizer that can load single cycle waveforms you might find them useful as well.
The collections
AKWF Waveforms (a massive collection of waveforms)
AKWF NewStandards (Clean new shapes. Coming up)
AKWF Nes (Waveforms from the Nintendo 8-bit console. Coming up)
Synths that can load waveforms / oscillator shapes
Hardware
Shruthi-1
Software
I have marked the ones I like with * but I don’t know all of them…
Sytrus*, Harmless*, 3xOSC, Native Instruments Absynth, Camel Audio Alchemy, MetaSynth, Dave Smith Evolver, Symbolic Sound Kyma, Native Instruments Reaktor, Elektron Monomachine*, Ableton Simpler, Akai S2000 etc.
Single cycle waveforms!?
If you are familiar with basic subtractive synthesizers you probably know the saw, square, sinus and triangle shape that are the most common shapes a oscillator can produce pretty well. Single cycle waveforms are tiny audio files (.wave) that a synthesizer can read to use as oscillator shapes. What it means is new sounds. Some kind of grey area between sampling and synthesis. A raw waveform is very rarely what makes a whole sound but you can see it as presets for oscillators. Happy sound designing!
This kind of technique is also called PCM wavetable synthesis.
April 24th, 2011 at 9:17 am
but you should put up those NES ones dood!
April 24th, 2011 at 9:16 am
This is the shit! Thank you!
March 19th, 2011 at 11:35 am
I will making a Puredata patch that uses this format of 44.1khrz/16bit 600 samples long D1 and extending it with waveforms 75 samples long at D-1. It will be a wavetable synth that borrows from ideas in LSDJ, Nanoloop and the PPG Wave. Thanks for the ideas! These waveforms are superb!
March 11th, 2011 at 4:08 am
my evolver and blofeld will be very happy to load these
January 11th, 2011 at 11:23 am
the waveforms are superb. i would really really like to see/hear the nes waveforms. are you still planning to make a nice set of those?
November 23rd, 2010 at 1:12 am
Thanks! Nice collection. The license?
November 10th, 2010 at 8:37 am
[...] http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/ [...]
October 11th, 2010 at 6:15 am
Hey Adventure KID! I’m just getting into this wavetable stuff, great blog here you got. It’s sums up very well what single waveforms can do. Thanks. I’m v. excited. Software synths has come of age I think.
October 10th, 2010 at 2:25 am
great stuff…but do you have them already grouped in sample maps?
September 28th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Thanx so much … i’ve been looking for this stuff for a long time. Me and my monomachine love you. I love the sine waveforms. Just awsome! Youre karma just went thru the sky..
//Max
September 28th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
It’s a snap taken of Ear candy and then edited a bit in photoshop. Hope that helps.
September 28th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Hi i am curious how you made this beautiful waveform graphic ?
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
[...] Kid stelt een groot aantal golfvormen gratis beschikbaar. Deze golfvormen (waves) kunnen worden gebruikt in synthesizers die deze kan laden. Met deze [...]
September 22nd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
[...] AKWF Waveforms is a free download from the Adventure Kid site. [...]
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 am
An interesting collection… but AK-OCW_0008.ZIP gives me a 404. All the other files are fine.
September 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 am
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September 22nd, 2010 at 8:24 am
[...] Waveforms is a free download from the Adventure Kid site. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="AKWF Waveforms – single cycled"; [...]
September 22nd, 2010 at 5:59 am
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September 21st, 2010 at 4:12 pm
[...] More information: Adventure Kid [...]
September 21st, 2010 at 7:43 am
Some of the files 404… But most seem to still work here. Pure isn’t a collection but a unique library.
September 21st, 2010 at 2:14 am
These links are dead now… files not found!
Is “Pure” a compilation of “A Collection” + others in one archive?
Michael.
September 18th, 2010 at 8:59 am
It’s nice to know there’s another person who has collected single cycle waveforms for a long time. You have much much more tho than I ever got collected, and your catagories are quite nice too. Such inspiring variety!! I just wish my life didn’t have so many other things going on in it through the past 8 years, so my collection would’ve grown into something like yours is showing.
This site is a very well put together collective, and am quite amazed how many there are, and ssssso useful a site!!
Many thanks for what you’re into.
September 1st, 2010 at 10:03 am
Love, love, love the site! I have added it to my army of “killer sites”! Wish you had more posts…actually maybe not because then I wouldn’t be able to get any work done. :p