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WAVETABLE

Specialty Definition: WAVETABLE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Wavetable A type of sound generator often built in a sound card. A wavetable contains digitised samples of real instrument sounds or effect (FX) sounds. A wavetable chip often also contains a drum kit sound to faciliate rhythm accompaniment. A recorded wavetable sound may be edited and enhanced by various effects (reverb, chorus) and layered with other waveforms before writing it to ROM or RAM. The latter type serves as user sound memory. A wavetable generator is typically controlled by MIDI input. When a MIDI note-on signal is detected, the output part of a wavetable generator generates a sound with definitive pitch, typically a musical note. Wavetable sounds are used in games and music. The more realistic wavetable sounds have all but replaced the earlier synthetic FM (frequency modulation) sound generation in sound cards but to ensure compatibility with older games etc., an FM part is usually included. The best known wavetable sound generators includes the E-mu 8000 chip, used in Creative Labs' Sound Blaster AWE-32 card family and in E-mu keyboards. Other wavetable cards are Gravis Ultra-Sound (GUS), ESS Cards, Opti, Zoltrix and many Roland cards. E-Mu (http://www.emu.com /). AWE-32(http://www.edu.isy.liu.se/~d93jesno/awe32.html). Creative Labs (http://www.creaf.com/). (1997-11-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Crosswords: WAVETABLE

Specialty definitions using "WAVETABLE": wav, wavetable synthesis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WAVETABLE

DomainTitle

High Tech

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Expression: WAVETABLE

Expression using "WAVETABLE": wavetable synthesis. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WAVETABLE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wavetable

14

gs microsoft sw synth wavetable

7

wavetable synthesizer

5

synthesis wavetable

3

software wavetable

3

software synthesizer wavetable

2

midi wavetable

2
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Anagrams: WAVETABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-l-t-v-w"

-2 letters: eatable, wavelet.

-3 letters: ablate, twelve, velate.

-4 letters: abate, abele, alate, betel, bevel, blate, bleat, elate, leave, tabla, table, telae, valet, weave.

-5 letters: abet, able, alae, alba, alee, awee, baal, bale, bate, bawl, beat, beet, belt, beta, blae, blat, blaw, blet, blew, eave, late, lava, lave, leet, leva, tael, tala, tale, teal, teel, tela, tele.

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Alternative Orthography: WAVETABLE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 56 45 54 41 42 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010100 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#84 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0056 0045 0054 0041 0042 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

573556395435364639

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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