#wave-channel
- Ghost channel (two notes in one wave) techniqueOne wave channel playing two notes at once. Instead of alternating between them in time, the two waveforms are added together inside the same single-cycle wave — a low fundamental with a faster wave riding on top of it …
- Harmonic series and overtones conceptEvery pitched sound is a stack of sine waves at whole-number multiples of one frequency. The lowest is the fundamental — the note you hear — and the ones above it are its harmonics (or overtones, or partials). Their …
- LSDj Wave Cruncher toolA command-line tool by Ada, alias DOTCNT (GitHub iLambda/lsdj-wave-cruncher ), that reduces a single-note sample to sixteen 4-bit wave frames — a .snt wavetable — so that the lsdj wave synth plays the timbre at any …
- chipmusic.org — Advanced LSDj Tutorial: The Ghost Channel (2013) summaryThe thread accompanying tyler-barnes 's video tutorial ( s-tylerbarnes-ghost-channel-tutorial ), and the place the name ghost channel comes from. Its value beyond the video is the reply by nitro2k01 , which supplies the …
- chipmusic.org — lsdj wav channel release? (2013) summarySomeone who had used lsdj for a year asks why a volume envelope that gives a release on the pulse channels does nothing on the wave channel. The answer is the frame-envelope method — the wave channel's volume envelope …
- chipmusic.org — Wav Instrument Tutorials for LSDJ (2014) summary"Specifically I want to create a flute wave instrument, but all the tutorials I find are just about kick drums and snares." The answers are the wiki's best sourced material on articulating a wave instrument, plus a …
- Defense Mechanism — LSDj Learning Lab shorts: Limit and Vshift, Long Filter Sweeps, Self-Resonating Bass (videos, 2020) summaryThree short clips from the wave-channel stream series, each carrying one thing the wiki did not have.
- Defense Mechanism — LSDj Learning Lab: Overtones / Ghost Channel with Allpass Filter (video, 2020) summarySeven minutes of a live stream by defense-mechanism , answering a viewer who asked whether LSDj can do a distorted guitar power chord. It is the 2020 answer to the 2013 hand-drawing method ( …
- Defense Mechanism — LSDJ Wave Channel Tutorial..? (More of a ramble) (video, 2020) summaryThe video companion to the Wave Synth Deep Dive articles ( s-intense-tech-01-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-1 , s-intense-tech-02-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-2 ), demonstrated with an oscilloscope on screen. Two things make it …
- Getting started with LSDj with Infu (course) summaryA single-page beginner course in fourteen sections by infu (CC BY-NC 4.0): setup and emulators, the sequencer, the ENV envelope, commands, three noise drums, a snare table, a wave kick and bass, the synth screen, and …
- Hackaday.io — RetroChallenge 2019: Gameboy Audiohacks (channelhacking, splitting pulse waves) summaryTwo project logs from a coder pair (Quint and utz) who spent RetroChallenge 2019 getting more than four voices out of a DMG-01 in software. Useful to this wiki for two things: an outside definition of the ghost-channel …
- Intense Tech #01 — LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 1 (Defense Mechanism) summaryThe first intense-tech article: defense-mechanism explains the lsdj wave synth's SIGNAL, VOLUME, FILTER, CUTOFF and Q by way of the harmonic series, and shows how to extract a sine wave — the deepest bass the Game Boy …
- Intense Tech #02 — LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 2 (Defense Mechanism) summaryThe second wave-synth lesson of intense-tech : PHASE (and its Resync modes), DIST (Clip, Fold, Wrap), LIMIT and VSHIFT — "how to add some real noisy crunch to your wave sounds", from a silky lead to a gnarly bass ( …
- Intense Tech #05 — LSDj Wave Cruncher Instrument Library (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) introduces a library of sample-derived wave-synth instruments for lsdj and the liblsdj tool that patches them into a save: the wave synth "as a rudimentary sampler".
- Intense Tech #08 — DOTCNT's LSDj Wave Cruncher (Defense Mechanism) summaryHow to turn a one-note sample into an lsdj wave-synth instrument with lsdj-wave-cruncher , by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) — the companion of the library article s-intense-tech-05-wave-cruncher-instrument-library .
- Intense Tech #10 — Get your Kicks with Version 6, Part 1 (Defense Mechanism) summaryWave-channel kicks in lsdj 6, expanding a video tutorial: why the wave channel, the new P/L/V instrument setting and its DRUM mode, a robust kick table, the "Kyoto kick" attack, and two ways to go from kick to bass. A …
- Intense Tech #12 — Scoping Out New Features (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) tours the new features of lsdj 7.7.4 — the B command, FX/SPEED, silky wave, the super-fast retrig — while warning that version 7 "is still buggy and WILL CRASH" and that 6.9.0 remains …
- Intense Tech #15 — Let's Mix It Up (and Down) (Defense Mechanism) summaryMixing with four channels and "four bits of dynamic range": defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) treats volume, stereo placement and frequency range as three separate levers in lsdj , and adds two volume tricks — a snare …
- Intense Tech #19 — New Noise and 9.1.0 News (Defense Mechanism) summarylsdj 9.1.0 reorganised the noise channel into ordered notes; defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) explains the new layout, offers a converter for old shape values, and lists the other 9.0.1–9.1.0 changes — P , C and V on …
- Intense Tech #21 — What's New in LSDj v9.2 (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) on the changes from lsdj 9.1.0 to 9.2.H: rebuilt sample timing, new synth PHASE modes, the noise PITCH FREE/SAFE setting, an envelope visualiser, a RESYNC wave play mode, row queueing …
- little-scale — All 4-bit Waveforms That Have 32 Samples (2009) summaryA Max/MSP patch that enumerates every waveform the game-boy-apu 's wave channel can hold, and fails — usefully.
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP1: Instrument Retriggering (video, 2016) summaryThe first of six episodes, framed as "hidden tricks in LSDj that are probably in the manual but not necessarily gone over in enough detail". The subject is one fact with a long tail: a note and an instrument number are …
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP2: In-depth WAV channel walkthrough (video, 2016) summaryA musician's tour of the wave instrument, synth and wave screens, four years before defense-mechanism 's ( s-defensemech-wave-channel-ramble ) and on an LSDj of the 4.x era. Its value now is the parts the other sources …
- roboctopus — LSDJ & You: Collapse of the Waveform (2014) summaryThe introduction to drawing waves rather than generating them, aimed at players who can already write a song: "My goal is to help intermediate users learn techniques to really fill out their songs and take their sound …
- roboctopus — PWM, I Choose You! (2014) summaryPulse-width modulation on the wave channel, where the hardware offers none: draw a square in the first wave and narrow it a little in each of the following fifteen, then let the instrument animate through them. "PWM …
- roboctopus — The Kinda Sorta Supersaw-lite; or, a Beefy Saw Bass (2013) summaryA short post with one instrument and one abandoned idea, both worth recording.
- Tyler Barnes — Advanced LSDJ Tutorial: The Ghost Channel (video, 2013) summaryThe original tutorial, and still the only step-by-step for drawing the waves. Its companion thread is s-chipmusic-lsdj-ghost-channel . The transcript is machine-generated, so what follows is what is spoken ; values …