A morph-table is loaded and pitched just like any other oscillator waveform, but - crucially - the movement of the ‘playhead’ through the snapshots upon triggering can be manipulated, looped and sped up/slowed down, and its harmonic shaping can be altered via the Morph Mode options and spectral Modifiers, as discussed in the main text.
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Unlike the single-cycle waveforms loaded into a regular wavetable oscillator, an HCM ‘morph-table’ captures a series of 256 tiny, smoothly interpolated snapshots, each comprising 512 harmonics that are FFT transformed and ‘sequenced’ to recreate the resampled source material as it changes over time. The primary goal with HCM is the synthesis of real-world instrument sounds (guitars, trumpets, the human voice, etc), for convincing emulation and - more importantly - as the basis for entirely new tones. The technology at the heart of Gladiator 3’s oscillators, Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) has its roots in established wavetable techniques but is rather more specific in its concept and realisation. This was already well stocked with stacking and detuning options, and now it includes 18 unison chords - minor/major third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, jazz, etc – in two-, three- and four-voice configurations. New in v3: noise and 25/50% ping-pong looping modes.Īnother area of improvement for Gladiator 3 is the unison section. The direction and style of playback through the two final mixed morph-tables is defined by the selection made in the Morph Mode menu, and its associated controls. This last offers another menu of choices for changing the harmonic phase relationship, with ten new options for v3 generating laser zaps, sub harmonics and noise.
The outputs of the oscillators in each pair are mixed or cross-modulated in various ways (summing, subtraction or multiplication the even harmonics of one with the odd harmonics of the other AM, FM, etc), and optionally processed with another harmonic Modifier and/ or a Phase Modulator. From faux filters and targeted removal of harmonics to modulation-style effects (flanging, chorusing, etc) and time-bending manoeuvres, it’s a spectacular array of processing possibilities right at the oscillator level. The HCM oscillators are the synth’s main defining feature, presenting a nuanced take on wavetable synthesis, as described in What exactly is HCM?Įach oscillator can apply one or two Modifiers to its morph-table waveform, selected from an extensive list of harmonics-shaping functions, and applied via their amount knobs. Gladiator’s signal flow starts with four Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) oscillators, arranged in pairs, and a fifth sample playback oscillator that draws on a ton of noise, percussive and other sounds.
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