Wavespace: A Highly Explorable Wavetable Generator
Hazounne Lee, Kihong Kim, Sungho Lee, Kyogu Lee

TL;DR
Wavespace is a novel wavetable generator that provides enhanced control over waveform synthesis by factorizing the latent space and conditioning on descriptors, enabling independent manipulation for musical applications.
Contribution
It introduces a variational autoencoder-based framework with disentangled latent spaces and auxiliary conditioning for improved wavetable control.
Findings
Allows independent manipulation of waveform styles and descriptors.
Enables real-time wavetable generation within digital audio workspaces.
Demonstrates practical efficiency with a prototype oscillator plugin.
Abstract
Wavetable synthesis generates quasi-periodic waveforms of musical tones by interpolating a list of waveforms called wavetable. As generative models that utilize latent representations offer various methods in waveform generation for musical applications, studies in wavetable generation with invertible architecture have also arisen recently. While they are promising, it is still challenging to generate wavetables with detailed controls in disentangling factors within the latent representation. In response, we present Wavespace, a novel framework for wavetable generation that empowers users with enhanced parameter controls. Our model allows users to apply pre-defined conditions to the output wavetables. We employ a variational autoencoder and completely factorize its latent space to different waveform styles. We also condition the generator with auxiliary timbral and morphological…
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TopicsAdvanced Fiber Optic Sensors · Optical Network Technologies · Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
