Reader Tim Webb let us know that he put together a tutorial on Wolfgang Palm’s new PPG WaveGenerator app: I received requests to do a tutorial on PPG WaveGenerator, but this app is way too complex to do in my usual style. Instead I’ve put together some tips and advice to help synthesists get into… Read More PPG WaveGenerator Tips
Remember the other day when we noted that digital synth pioneer Wolfgang Palm was paying attention to your feedback on his new PPG Wavegenerator app? Today he announced an update for WaveGenerator, now in beta. Here’s what’s coming in the new version:
We noticed an update, this evening, on the PPG WaveGenerator Facebook page: “END OF DAY ONE: Thanks for the awesome feedback here and around the web. Wolfgang reads everything and responds to many of the comments either on here or behind the scenes with feedback based fixes and updates – amazing feedback from the Synthtopia… Read More Thanks To Wolfgang Palm For Listening To Users!
Wolfgang Palm’s PPG WaveGenerator – a new wavetable synth for the iPad – is now available. PPG WaveGenerator is the latest development from the inventor of wavetable synthesis, Wolfgang Palm. Palm describes it as a “next generation synthesizer, building on the heritage of the PPG Wave keyboards.” PPG WaveGenerator lets you create your own waves… Read More PPG WaveGenerator Now Available
Palm Sounds has published a ‘waiting list‘ of music apps for the iPad that have been announced, but haven’t been released yet. Among the new apps are seven that look like they will bring some fairly deep capabilities to the platform: AudioBus – promises to let you route and mix audio between iOS applications Akai MPC… Read More 7 Upcoming iPad Music Apps To Watch For
Tim Webb (discchord) offers his thoughts on understanding wavetable synthesis, demonstrating with Animoog on the iPad. Wavetable synthesis was pioneered by Wolfgang Palm in his PPG synths of the 70s and 80s. With wavetable synthesis, a library of relatively complex wave shapes, rather than sine, square or triangle waves, are used as building blocks of… Read More Understanding Wavetable Synthesis
Synth pioneer Wolfgang Palm demos his latest synth, PPG Wavegenerator for the iPad.
Wolfgang Palm has released details on his upcoming ipad synthesizer, PPG Wavegenerator, including specifications and audio demos. Key Features: Creation of your own waves and wavetables. Playful sound creation simply by drawing or picking harmonics 3D page, visualization of the wavetables, transformation from photos into wavetables. 256 waves assembled within a wave grid 3 Audio Oscillators… Read More PPG Wavegenerator Specifications & Audio Demos
More info is starting to trickle out on PPG Wavegenerator – Wolfgang Palm’s upcoming synth for the iPad, based on the classic PPG Wave synthesizer. From the app’s Facebook page: Yes it’s true; from the Father of the PPG Wave comes the future of synthesis on the iPad… coming soon are going to be sound… Read More PPG Wavegenerator ‘Worth Buying An iPad For’
It looks like Wolfgang Palm – one of the fathers of digital synthesis – wants to blow your mind with his new synthesizer! He responded to our post about his upcoming Waldorf wavetable synth for the iPad with a link to some information on his site about Sine + Noise modeling, an approach to synthesis he… Read More Wolfgang Palm Wants To Blow Your Mind With His New Sine+Noise Modeling Synth!
