a short sample so then Waldorf PPG Wave, Junglist, etc would make the list

A series of numbers stored in memory that, when routed to a Digital-to-Analog converter, reconstruct a particular waveform. Wavetables can also be used to reconstruct samples of acoustic sounds.

A type of MIDI synthesis that uses actual recordings of an instrument (See Sample) to produce a sound rather than entirely computer generated sounds. See Also: FM

A bit of ROM on sound cards that stores standard sounds (as .wav files) for instruments instead of generating them from FM sounds. This gives a much more...

Wavetable sound cards play back actual samples (real recordings) of requested instruments while FM sound cards produce sound by artifically simulating the waves of an actual sound.