Wave Sequencing Synthesis: What Is It and How To Do It (Korg Wavestate Tutorial)

This tutorial will look closely at the conceptual basis of the Korg Wavestate, what Korg has termed 'wave-sequencing synthesis', but which is known within academic research as 'concatenative synthesis'. This form of audio synthesis works by fusing together audio fragments from different sounds to form a new sound. It is useful to understand the anatomy of a sound in order to take full advantage of this approach to audio synthesis.

For the purposes of this video, we will decompose a sound into two component parts: 1. the attack or transient, and 2. the body or decay. These two parts of a sound have distinct frequency characteristics, and so we can use them individually to create hybrid sounds. We will do this in the Korg Wavestate using both the Sample Lane in a single layer, and by adjusting the amplitude envelope in two layers.

Hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Explanation of concatenative synthesis
1:00 - Anatomy of a sound
1:57 - How it works in the Korg Wavestate
2:17 - Intro to the technical portion of the tutorial
2:45 - Using one layer for concatenative synthesis
7:08 - Experimenting with variations for transient and body of sound
9:15 - Using two layers
12:13 - Shaping the transient and body separately
13:15 - Tutorial conlusion
14:14 - Video outro

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