Bulk Operations

[eclab]

I built a wavetable from an existing analog sound sample, and was stymied by a lack of certain bulk tools [that is, operating on the wave sequence one has selected] which should be easy to implement. It was rather challenging having to edit each wave separately in Audacity, then load them one at a time in WaveEdit. Some items that would have helped a lot:

• Bulk normalization: normalizing all the waves by the maximum of them all
• Bulk individual normalization: normalizing each wave independently
• Bulk DC offset removal. I would do this by adjusting each wave so that its first sample is at zero.
• Bulk application of the various filters [pre-gain, phase shift, harmonic shift... ring modulation, etc.]. Just select your sequence and then change a slider. At present the slider only effects the last wave in the sequence (?!?).
• Reverse a selected sequence
• Rotate a selected sequence
• This one is critical: moving a subsequence of waves. That is, select some waves, then shift them up or down in the wavetable, perhaps cut and paste them to a different location, inserting and displacing waves at a certain cursor position.
• WaveEdit can break the wavetable out into individual single cycle waves ("Save Waves to Folder") but it has no way to import a folder of waves in. I would suggest assuming that the wave filenames start with numbers indicating their desired spot in the table on import.

I think WaveEdit is one of the best wavetable editing programs out there: a few minor bulk manipulation tools would make it a lot more powerful.