Editing Wavetable synthesis (section)

== Development == 
Wavetable synthesis was invented by [[Max Mathews]] in 1958 as part of [[MUSIC-N|MUSIC II]]. MUSIC II “had four-voice polyphony and was capable of generating sixteen wave shapes via the introduction of a wavetable oscillator.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-26 |title=‘MUSIC N’, Max Vernon Mathews, USA, 1957 |url=https://120years.net/wordpress/music-n-max-mathews-usa-1957/ |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=120 Years of Electronic Music |language=en-GB |first=Simon |last=Crab}}</ref>

[[Hal Chamberlin]] discussed wavetable synthesis in [[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'s September 1977 issue.<ref>[http://retro.hansotten.nl/uploads/files/computer_performance_music-byte-september-1977.pdf ''A sampling of techniques for computer performance of music''] by Hal Chamberlin, Byte, September 1977</ref> [[Wolfgang Palm]] of [[Palm Products GmbH]] (PPG) developed his version in the late 1970s{{sfn|Palm|2009}} and published it in 1979.{{sfn|Andresen|1979}} The technique has since been used as the primary synthesis method in synthesizers built by PPG and [[Waldorf Music]] and as an auxiliary synthesis method by [[Ensoniq]] and [[Access Music|Access]]. It is currently used in hardware synthesizers from Waldorf Music and in software synthesizers for PCs and tablets, including apps offered by PPG and Waldorf, among others.

It was also independently developed by Michael McNabb, who used it in his 1978 composition ''[[Dreamsong]]''.<ref name="History of Digital Synthesis">{{cite web | title=Viewpoints on the History of Digital Synthesis: Taxonomy of Digital Synthesis Techniques | first=Julius O. | last=Smith III  | author-link= Julius O. Smith III  | location  = Stanford, CA | publisher = Stanford University | url=https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/kna/Taxonomy_Digital_Synthesis_Techniques.html | access-date=February 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Dreamsong: The Composition">{{cite journal | first=Michael | last=McNabb | title=Dreamsong: The Composition | journal=[[Computer Music Journal]] | volume=5 | issue=4 | url=http://www.mcnabb.com/music/pubs/CMJ_Vol5Num4.pdf | access-date=February 24, 2015 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142324/http://www.mcnabb.com/music/pubs/CMJ_Vol5Num4.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>