Lexicon and self-education

[blaerg]

Hello all,
I've had my Axoloti for the last couple months and I'm really impressed and satisfied with my purchase. My objective is in using its flexible patching abilities (I also have a Nord Micro and 9U of Eurorack) to be used in my overall production of finished musical works.

Toward that end, I see the need to learn some of the specifics about how the Axoloti operates - and am used to this confronting this circumstance when I have acquired new gear and software in the past. The difficulty I am having with Axoloti in specific is in teaching myself how some of the programming aspects are laid out.

For instance, I am familiar with modular synthesis and have seen how different terminology is used in the Axoloti for similar functions/concepts (boolean instead of gate) etc. In this example, it was fairly simple to look up the term, read a bit and make the connection. Another example was "dirac" which I concluded meant a trigger (or at least functioned as such in that particular case).

Currently I am investigating tables, what they do and how they are used (I'm mostly interested in exploring wavetables) but I'm having a lot of difficulty with the terms used, what the functions of those terms indicate and how they relate to each other. As a result, I can't figure out the basics of how to even use them (please note that it is on my to-do list to pick apart what I can from these threads:

Wavetable - How to create1 cycle wavetable tutorial w. examples

Hey guys :smile: I just flicked together this tutorial on how to create one cycle waveforms for Axoloti. You can use it instead on an oscillator and gives some new options. Anyway here goes: Pic of patch: [image] Video of the Audacity part: 0. Tutorial on how to make 1 cycle waveforms for Axoloti To start with this I would like to mention that this can de done in many ways and this is just one example, but I found it to work and the wavetables created in this way, seems to be in per…

https://sebiik.github.io/community.axoloti.com.backup/t/the-xylobox-wavetable-synthesizer-hardware-patches/1353).

Rather than ask specific questions, what I'm looking for overall is some guidance on how to educate myself better with this unknown lexicon used frequently in the Axoloti. Do I need a "DSP dictionary," or should I be consulting some 101-level computer science guide? Yes, the help patches are useful, and I have also trawled the forum but I'm still just wanting to be able to look up each term for a definition and then conclude its function and relationship to other unknown terms, etc.

I hope what I'm attempting to convey is clear. Could someone assist me with a resource like this?

[toneburst]

A lot of the terminology in Axoloti comes from programming and mathematics, and I agree, it’s not always helpful for users with a more traditional background in hardware and software audio synthesis.

a|x

[toneburst]

Help patches and object descriptions are really the best way to find out what each object does, I’d say. You’ll get a feel for it after a while, I’m sure.

a|x

[blaerg]

Help patches and object descriptions are really the best way to find out what each object does, I’d say. You’ll get a feel for it after a while, I’m sure.

I was afraid of a response like this. What if the best way to figure it out is to have access to a full, exhaustive access to the concepts and terms?

Unfortunately, the descriptions are far too terse to be useful to me in regard to tables...

[blaerg]

I'm already stuck with the wavetable tutorials. The very first instruction states:

Enter card reader mode

Yet I cannot after much searching find how this is accomplished.

[Gavin]

Maybe I can help just a little with "Tables".
I too had issues with Tables until I realized that it is just an array of values or in the case of a wave table, an array of sound waves.
The only difference with these arrays is that the sizes and dimensions to choose from are fixed sizes.
Hope that helps somehow..

[blaerg]

Hope that helps somehow.

I understand the synthesis approach, which is why I want to implement them in the first place.

[thetechnobear]

I'm already stuck with the wavetable tutorials. The very first instruction states:

Enter card reader mode

Yet I cannot after much searching find how this is accomplished.

Axoloti Menu -> Board ->Enter card reader mode

[blaerg]

Thank you very much.