TS‑10 / TS‑12 · Hyper-Wave Programming

Hyper-Wave™ Programming with the TS‑10 and TS‑12

by Howard Massey

One of the most exciting and unique features of the ENSONIQ TS‑10/TS‑12 Performance/Composition Synthesizer is something called Hyper-Wave™ architecture. This allows you to create a voice that consists of not just one wave, but a list of up to sixteen waves (called a wave-list), played one after another in a continuous loop. Extensive editing controls allow you to independently determine the forward-backward direction, pitch, duration, and volume of each wave step in the list, and you can also perform crossfades between consecutive wave steps. What do Hyper-Wave voices sound like? The only limit is your imagination; they can range from striking rhythm backing loops to short, sequence-like patterns of notes to cohesive sounds that contain constantly changing shifts in timbre. What’s more, you can create composite programs that play back up to four Hyper-Wave voices simultaneously (not to mention Presets that play up to twelve Hyper-Wave voices at the same time)—resulting in incredibly complex sounds unlike those you’ve ever heard before!

In this document, we’ll take a close-up look at the process of editing and creating TS‑10/TS‑12 Hyper-Wave voices. We’ll assume that you’ve already read the Musician’s Manual and that you are familiar with navigating around the TS‑10/TS‑12 as well as basic editing procedures. Because we’ll be presenting a number of step-by-step directions, we suggest that you go through these pages with a TS‑10/TS‑12 powered up and in front of you. Don’t forget to save your work periodically, using the Write function.

Produced by On The Right Wavelength for ENSONIQ Corp

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