I post this for a very specific reason - I recently purchased an Elektron Model:Cycles FM drum machine/melodic groove-box for the FM sounds that I love. I wanted to pair the Polyend Synth with it a week ago, but it was just sound a bit ‘off’ to me. The sounds I had been using prior were just a bit too different, and I did not want to use equalization or filters to shape them. It’s one way to work, but I did not want to do it that way. The Model:Cycles sounds so good on its own, it requires no EQ to my ears. Sculpt your sound with FM and it can be very much whatever you’d like, really defeated the purpose of EQ for me.
The Polyend, for me, is a bit more fiddly with its sounds, and sometimes requires some extra filtering for tones. I figured “What if I use FM wavetables?” to remove the need for EQ and to get a similar sound to the M:C. I tried with a few wavetable generators that I either have as apps or even online. Nah, nothing comes close.
Then, I tried the Additive Wavetable Generator, and now that it’s been recently updated with an audition function, I could try to get what I wanted much easier, to actually hear it in action.
Wow! Works like a charm. Put in the wavetable, and it sounds like something I would have created on the M:C - timbrally, tonally. Very accurate. I’m jamming alongside the M:C and it sounds like I’m playing another Elektron piece of gear.
So, if you’re in this particular situation, and you’re looking for a possible solution? Go for it.
