3rd Wave Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer Specifications:

• 3 High-resolution Digital Oscillators Per Voice
• 64 total user wavetable positions with 48 wavetables that contain 64 waveforms per table (32 legacy PPG waves with room for another 16 of this type)
• 32 original 8-bit wavetables from the PPG 2 series instruments with room for 16 more user created 8-bit wavetables
• 7 high-resolution modeled analog waveforms (sine, saw, triangle, supersaw, pulse, white noise, pink noise)
• VCO sync
• Linear FM
• 6-stage wave envelope per oscillator with variable time and position that can be looped
• Optional wave flow section that allows for no wavetable as well as no waveform interpolation
• Upper wavetable mode as with the original PPG 2 series
• Unison mode and chord mode with variable voice count

• Dave Rossum designed, classic, 2140 low-pass resonant filter
• 24dB per octave slope
• Variable saturation amount
• Optional resonance compensation
• 1 State-Variable Filter
• 12dB per octave slope
• Continuously variable between low-pass, notch and high-pass, operation with optional band-pass mode

• Filter, Amplifier, plus two additional envelopes switchable between exponential and vintage PPG-style response
• Freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations

• Triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, square, pulse 1, pulse 2, pulse 3 and random (S&H)
• Variable delay
• Note reset
• Syncable to master clock BPM

• BBD, stereo delay, tape delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, distortion pedal, rotating speaker, ring mod, room reverb, hall reverb, super plate reverb—most modeled on famous hardware devices
• Syncable to master clock BPM
• Parameters modulatable via mod matrix

• Built-In Custom Wavetable Maker
• “Sample-to-wave” functionality. Connect an audio source to the 3rd Wave’s Audio In port, press “Make Waves” and the synth samples the audio to create a custom wavetable
• Samples to convert can also be brought in as a 96kHz wav file through USB
• Store up to 32 custom wavetables
• 64 waveforms per wavetable
• Accepts pitched or un-pitched material as input
• 96kHz sampling rate
• 16-bit resolution
• 1,024 cycles per waveform, converted automatically to cover entire keyboard range
• Flexible wave-sampling length
• Imports Serum wavetables

• Performs both Note and Parameter Sequencing
• 4 parts per sequence
• 24 sequences per preset
• Up to 32 measures per sequence
• Variable quantization resolution per sequence (32nd, 16th, 8th, quarter, half, whole note or quantization off), that is settable in real time
• Variable swing

• 1 Arp per Multi-part
• Up, down, up/down and assign modes
• Variable range (1, 2 or 3 octaves)

• 16-slot Modulation Matrix Per Multi-Part
• 16 slot modulation matrix with 27 mod sources and 114 mod destinations
• 12 additional fixed-source mod paths
• Modulation assignment buttons enable quick and easy modulation routing
• Mod Matrix runs at audio rates
• Sequencer can record and play mod parameter changes in real time

• 77 knobs and 39 buttons enable deep, comprehensive editing with minimal menu diving
• Pitch and Mod Wheels
• Full-sized, five-octave, semi-weighted, premium Fatar keyboard with velocity and aftertouch

• 500 factory programs. User rewritable

• 4 Stereo outputs (2 x 1/4" phone jack per part)
• Headphone out (stereo 1/4" phone jack)
• MIDI In, MIDI Out, and MIDI Thru
• USB port for bidirectional MIDI communication
• Audio Input for creating user wavetables from external audio source (1/4" phone jack)
• Audio Input can also route audio through the filters, output chain and effects
• Sustain/footswitch input
• Volume pedal input
• Expression pedal input

• 1 universal IEC AC power inlet for internal power supply
• Operates worldwide on voltages between 100–240V, 50–60Hz, 65 watts maximum power consumption

• Synth Dimensions: 38.5" x 14.25" x 5", 27 lb.