Wavetables for Vital

The format Vital imports

Packed WAV (FLAC loads too when dragged in) imported frame-by-frame; Vital assumes 2,048 samples per frame and reads the left channel of stereo files. Its own wavetable exports are 256-frame, 2,048-sample WAVs.

What Hyperwave exports

Every Hyperwave export is one packed wavetable WAV. Check these facts against the Vital format above — where the two disagree, the fix is almost always the frame size or a conversion step, not the sound design.

Sample format

32-bit float by default (values between -1 and +1); 16-bit WAV is a direct export option for targets that load integer banks.

Channels

1 (mono). Every frame is one single-cycle waveform.

Header sample rate

48,000 Hz by default. This is a label in the file header — for wavetable import it doesn't stretch or resample your frames. One exception: VCV Rack's Wavetable VCO reads the sample-rate field as the frame length when it's a power of two, and sample players that fall back to one-shot mode use it for pitch.

Frame layout

Frames are packed end-to-end in one data chunk, in wavetable order; the export filename records the shape as name-{samples}x{frames}.wav.

Resolution

The live table runs from 8 to 8,192 samples per frame and 8 to 1,024 frames (defaults 2,048 × 256).

Metadata

No extra metadata chunks are written — targets that read frame size from metadata have to infer it from the file itself.

Load a Hyperwave table into Vital

1. Export from Hyperwave as a packed mono WAV at 2,048 samples per frame — the frame size Vital assumes on import.
2. Drag the WAV onto Vital's wavetable display, or choose Import Wavetable from the wavetable menu (the drag-drop zones are WAVETABLE, VOCODE, and PITCH SPLICE).

Read the full import guide

Common issues

• Vital assumes 2,048 samples per frame, so a table exported at another frame size plays back at the wrong pitch — re-export at 2,048, Hyperwave's default.