Upperwavetable
==============


How to use the file "UPPERWT.WTB":
----------------------------------
You will need a Waldorf WAVE synth, A way to write on a DOS formated disk and a computer (PC, Unix or Mac) to get the file from the iNet onto the disk.
- Download the file named "UPPERWT.WTB"
- Store the file onto a DOS disk
- Insert the disk into your WAVE
- press DISK on the WAVE
- Choose LOAD
- Go to the menu item "WAVETABLE"
- select the file named "UPPERWT.WTB" by pressing the + and - buttons of the WAVE.
- press OK.


About the upperwavetable:
-------------------------
Some people know me for always dropping the word "upperwavetable" in discussions about wavetables. Why ? One of my all time favorite PPG wave 2.2 and 2.3 patches used the upperwavetable. I was forced to sell my PPG gear 1995 when I bought my WAVE. And since the day the PPG left my living room, I was missing the upperwavetable. I know, this might sounds a bit "wired" to you, but that's the truth. I would like to tell you why:

The upperwavetable was introduced 1982 on Wolfgang Palm's brain child PPG wave 2.2 wavetable synthesizer. It was an extra wavetable which lived beyond the normal upper range of every wavetables. It didn't included any new wave missing in the other wavetables. Its goal wasn't to add new waves, but to make some "best of" waves available regardless of the used wavetable. By means of the upperwavetable you were able to use a mellow wavetable and ad some spice of harsh digital waves by driving one oscillator periodically or permanent into the upper waves.

The upperwavetable got lost when Waldorf built their first wavetable synthesizer. II was their first synth. The Microwave I was introduced 1989 and used 30 of the original 31 unique PPG wavetables. But the whole upperwavetable idea was dropped and made never be available on the Microwave I and the WAVE due to the special hardware Mr. Wolfgang Palm designed for Waldorf. The later introduced Waldorf wavetable synths (Microwave II, XT and XTk) were based on software driven DSP. But to make these synths more or less a second, more advanced version of the Microwave I, the upperwavetable was left out again. In the year 2000 Waldorf introduced the PPG 2.V VSTi plug-in. Its a PPG wave 2.3 emulation based on software. And to make sounding and "feeling" as close to the PPG wave 2.3, it reissued the upperwavetable idea again. Wolfram Franke (he did most of the PPG plug-in programming and reengeneering ) rebuilt the upperwavetable. He mailed me his data and I just had to dial these ROM wave numbers into the right position of a WAVE user wavetable.

Boele Gerkes did the same for the Microwave II, XT and XTk synths. And Dr. Georg Mueller did so on the Microwave I.

Due to the hard and software restrictions of the hardware Waldorf wavetable synths, you are still not able to use the upperwavetable at the same time as another wavetable of the same single patch. But you might use a work around to do so:
Built a sound using the normal wave and a single oscillator. Built a second sound using the upperwavetable. Also using a single oscillator. Layer both sound in a multi patch and detune the second sound to get the desired beating effect. Apply wavetable modulations like envelopes and/or keytracking. You wont get all PPG sounds using the upperwavetable this way, but it does its job on many of those PPG patches.

Till "Qwave" Kopper, January 2002


Remark: Because of PPG'S famous way of making things a bit more complex than other companies, I will shorten some details. But you may reach me at ich@till-kopper.de for questions and more into detail answers.