Superbooth 23: Neuzeit Instruments Warp additive wavetables
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Neuzeit Instruments’ Warp uses a novel hybrid engine to combine additive and wavetable synthesis for a rich and colourful sound palette.
Warp
Your eye is instantly drawn to the wave display at the top, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a graphic. All the action happens in the square display underneath. Warp is a synthesizer voice that is going to be adding and combining wavetables in interesting and exciting ways.
Warp has 4 voices running 2 oscillators combining a hybrid additive-wavetable synth engine. As a standalone unit, it’s monophonic and can be used as full voice or just an oscillator module. For polyphony, you’ll need the optional expander.
The additive synthesis side brings in 512 sine waves per oscillator. So you can ultimately build tones with 4096 sine waves. This bit is really interesting:
Each voice travels independently across the XY space and uses the underlying spectra to synthesize a wavetable in real-time. Spectral FX are applied before the wavetable is generated.
That sounds fairly bonkers. Once you have your wavetable, you can apply other effects such as wave folding, PWM, overdrive, etc.
Neuzeit Warp · Source: Neuzeit
Warp has two filters per voice, 12dB and 24dB lowe and high pass with resonance control. You’ll also find a good bit of modulation with 2 ADSRs and 2 LFOs with many choices of waveform.
I think it all needs a nice big video to really unpack what this monster voice is all about. I could go on about algorithms and generation of frequency spectra but what we really need is to see it in action. I’ll let you know as soon as we get some video, but feel free to wallow in the specs on the website.
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