Description

W.I.S.E. (Wavetable-Integrated Sample Engine) is an experimental sample player/synth/looper, featuring a topology-inspired design that employs complex single-cycle waveforms and modulation parameters for real-time control over a sample’s time domain: the audio file’s playback speed is controlled by an incoming stream of amplitude values.

This device is a mix between an audio effect and an audio instrument: it allows to create variations of the same sound or entire new textures very quickly, by making use of peculiarly shaped single-cycle control wavetables - the amplitudes of each one have been also integrally summed up and normalized, following a specific ratio - to maintain a time-domain relationship between the unprocessed (DRY) and the processed (WET) sample.

The two samples share a topological connection, and the control waveforms - despite their varying shapes - also share a “common path” in journey duration due to their consistent summed and renormalized index values.

Furthermore, features like amplitude and phase control enable dynamic traversal of the original audio file offering routes that, although different from each other, are topologically equivalent in length.

To use it just load it onto a MIDI Track, drop a sample into it, send some MIDI Notes, and start experimenting.

Check out the manual here:

https://pastebin.com/pNgnFJLz

If you want to know how waveforms are integrated in W.I.S.E. you can read the essay draft I'm working on:

https://pastebin.com/75Zn5JHT

W.I.S.E. has now a mono lo-fi, more vintage sounding little brother (also a tad less CPU-expensive):

https://maxforlive.com/library/device/9445/w-i-s-e-ino

You can now create/draw integrated waveforms using the following device:

https://maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=9603