How to import wavetables into Peak / Summit
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Peak / Summit from Novation imports wavetables like this: import audio through the Components editor.
This guide gives the exact layout Peak / Summit expects, the step-by-step load, the Hyperwave export settings that match, and plain fixes for the import failures the documentation warns about.
Everything here is verified against Novation's own documentation or source code — sources at the end of the page, checked 2026-08-16.
What Peak / Summit expects
The Components Wavetable Editor (browser) imports audio files or third-party wavetables such as Serum's, as a single waveform (512 cycles) or a wavetable (2,560 cycles); each user wavetable has 5 wave slots and the synth stores 10 user wavetable slots (Peak firmware 1.3+ / Summit 1.1+).
Step by step
- In Hyperwave, keep the table within the Peak budget: 512 cycles per wave and 5 waves per wavetable (a 2,560-cycle import).
- Open the Components Wavetable Editor in a browser and import the audio file as a user wavetable.
- Save the wavetable to the synth over USB so it occupies one of the user slots.
If something goes wrong
- How many waves can a Peak / Summit user wavetable hold?
- Each user wavetable is a fixed slot of 5 waves at 512 cycles — plan the table as 5 frames to control which waves land in the synth.
- My imported tables keep overwriting each other.
- The synth stores 10 user wavetable slots, so importing another table means reusing a slot.
- My imported table vanished after power-off.
- A wavetable sent from Components is temporary — save it on the synth itself (OSC menu, last page, Save) or it disappears at power-off.
Export settings for Peak / Summit
Hyperwave's export dialog has a preset for Peak / Summit — pick "Novation Peak / Summit — 512 × 5" and the geometry below is what you get.
- Novation Peak / Summit — 512 × 5
- 512 samples per frame × 5 frames · 32-bit float · 48 kHz