The Edit Cycles page lets you adjust the cycles of the Wavetable body section of an UltraWave sound.

Cycle Positions Graph

This graph shows you the cycles of the wavetable and their position in time.

Unlike traditional wavetable synths, the cycles do not need to be evenly spaced. You can have a wavetable that has more cycles at the start of the sound for instance.

You can zoom in and out of the timeline with your mouse wheel or the zoom buttons.

The time bar shows positions as a percentage, not a specific time. This is because the length of playback is set by the sound length, and can be adjusted.

Click and drag a cycle to move it in the timeline.

Click and drag the timeline above the cycles to make a selection. You will then be able to run edit functions on the selection, or delete them.

Clicking and dragging the white playhead will play a preview of the cycle at the playhead. If the playhead is between two cycles, it will play a mix of the two cycles. If you want to disable this preview, click the small speaker to the right of the graph.

Stereo Sounds

If your sound is stereo, you get some additional options.

• Left and Right Channel Buttons allows you to select a specific channel for copying or editing.
• You can also select a specific channel by clicking and dragging above or below the cycles positions graph.
• Solo buttons allow you to solo the left or right channel of the sound.

Copying and Pasting to one channel only

• Click and drag an area and bring your mouse above or below the graph to select cycles in one channel only, ready to copy.
• Click the left or right channel button to select a destination channel to paste to.

Preview Graphs

These graphs show you the cycles of the wavetable as you hover on them. When dragging the playhead or playing a MIDI note, the graphs turn white and show you then calculated cycle at the playhead.

If the sound is stereo you will see two graphs.

All Cycles Graph

This graph shows you all of the wavetable cycles on top of each other.

If the sound is stereo, it shows all the cycles from one channel only. You can change the channel using the left / right buttons.

• View All / Selected will show all cycles, or just the selected cycles in the graph
• View Cycles the default mode shows cycles in the graph
• Filter Cycles when selected, a filter knob will appear
• Filter Knob adjusting this knob will remove high frequency data from the cycle. You will see the filter being applied to selected cycles in the graph.
• Apply Filter will load these filtered cycles into the sound.
• [x] will discard the filter.
• Preview when in filter mode, preview will play an audio preview of the filtered cycle

Patch Parameters

These parameters are not part of the UltraWave sound, but they affect the playback of the wavetable body, and can be controlled from the edit page.

• Automatic Playback Mode when playing a note, the UltraWave sound will play back from start to finish. The length of the sound is determined by the length knob
• Wavetable Playback Mode in this mode, the playhead is controlled by the wavetable position knob. This knob can be automated with things like an LFO or envelope to control the play head.
• Morph in Between Cycles by default, when the playhead is between cycles it will create a blend of the cycle before and after the playhead. Disabling this means that the playback will choose the closest cycle to the playhead.

Cycle Edit Functions

• Select All select all cycles in the graph
• Copy Cycles copies the selected cycles to the clipboard
• Paste At Playhead pastes copied cycles, placing the first cycle at the playhead position
• Paste at Original Position pastes copied cycles, placing them at the position they ocupied in the sound they were copied from
• Delete Cycles removes selected cycles from the wavetable. At least one cycle must remain
• Reverse Positions updates the positions of selected cycles so the the first is moved to the last position and vice versa
• Distribute Cycles evenly spaces cycles in the timeline
• Reduce deletes every 2nd cycle
• Shuffle randomises the positions of the selected cycles
• Stretch to Fit places the cycles so that the first cycle is at the start of the timeline and the last cycle is at the end of the timeline
• Insert Sine at Playhead adds a pure sine wave cycle to the graph
• Insert Blend at Playhead creates a new cycle that is a mix of the cycles to the left and right of the playhead

Cycle Wave Data Functions

Functions that can be applied to selected cycles.

• Normalise Cycles sets the cycle to be full volume
• Fade Edges 10% performs a fade in and out on the left and right sides of the wave
• Fade Edges 25% performs a fade in and out on the left and right sides of the wave
• Remove Fundamental deletes any data that matches the fundamental sine wave of the sound
• Align Phases 1 removes phase information from the harmonics of the cycle
• Align Phases 2 removes phase information from the harmonics of the cycle
• Even Harmonics deletes any odd harmonics from the cycle
• Odd Harmonics deletes any even harmonics from the cycle
• Octaves only deletes any harmonics that are not exact multiples of the fundamental
• Octaves and Perfect 5ths Only as above but keeps harmonics that are a perfect 5th from the fundamental