tags: synthesis waveform music wavetable-synthesis
Wave Table
A wavetable is an array in memory in which a fragment (usually a period) of a [waveform] is stored.
Example: a digital [sine] wave table of 64 [samples]
Usage
Wave tables are used within [wavetable synthesis] to store pre-computed values of a waveform
- within [digital audio], wavetable synthesis results in less computation time and reduces overall [runtime] of most [synthesis] [algorithms]
The process of accessing values from a wavetable is called [wave table lookup].