hmm, no.
a wavetable oscillator as i understand it is a wave that has x amount (127 in the microwave)of uniform cycled loops, placed one after another in an audio file. when your sweeping through a wavetable you are actually just moving a a fixed loop position from one wave cycle to another. all cycles are exactly the same length, or at least this is how it worked in my eps.
i had an ensoniq eps 16+ which one could make their own wavetables for. ensoniq called it transwave synthesis. the fizmo, asr-10 and i think asrx use this type of "synthesis" as well. the asr-10 is the best out of the bunch, the asrx and fizmo have no means of editing transwaves, they just play them back.
anyhow, i never really got around to trying this more than 3 or 4 times, because it took a lot of time and calculation to get a good end result (of course you could just slap any older sample and transwave it to some to some odd sounding effect, i did this a lot
). i had a few small libraries of these patches, and i actually still have the base samples from these transwave patches, haven't figured out anything to do with them yet.
the waldorf or more correctly, PPG way of doing this is to interpolate between each wave cycle position instead of just jumping to each wave cycle, like in the ensoniq line of transwave synthesizers.
this has the effect of smoothly transitionioning from one cycle in the wave to another. I THINK, it may work differently, and be more of an involved process (unseen to the user) than how i am seeing it in my head.
there is a bunch of info availible on the web of how waldorf does this, and the microwave manual has some juicy info on it as well. someone posted a link here somewhere.
i have thought that a transwave or wavetable sample module would be neat to have, but it might be stepping on waldorfs feet a bit much for cw's liking.
but no it can't really be done at the moment. there might be a way to sort of do it, but you'd need a sample oscillator for every wave cycle, and have to employ some pretty complicated logic between all these sample oscillators to get it to work right, if even then.
this is just going off on a limb, i wouldn't really know how to do it off the top of my head.
about the sample looping irregularity.
i've noted problems with the sample oscillators (and every sample device purportedly) being able to load audio files which have Extra information stored in their "header".
sub-human explained/confirmed this, and i sort of figured it out for myself. this might be where your having problems, if so, try and see if you can save with no header, or try a different audio editor to save the file.
i had good luck using a different audio editor to save files, but it turned out the problem only happened with wave files.
i later found out that saving to the aiff format didn't pose any problems from any programs. this is what i do now, no problems.
best.
//c
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