# Making your own user waveform

**URL:** <https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/making-your-own-user-waveform/384>\
**Category:** Your Patches\
**Created:** [1 May 2021 16:04 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/making-your-own-user-waveform/384 "2021-05-01T16:04:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![MOOGelPackung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@MOOGelPackung](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/MOOGelPackung)\
**Post date:** [9 June 2021 11:09 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/making-your-own-user-waveform/384/18 "2021-06-09T11:09:32Z")

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> [@Udoboe](#):
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> I am seeing a lot of “blinding with science”, which I don’t understand in the least.
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> Signed 16bit PCM? What does “signed” mean? Or “little endian”? I have absolutely no idea.

To be honest, these are the fundamental things to know and to understand, if you want to prepare your own waveforms with standard software products. Without this knowledge its like doing surgery because you simply got a sharp knife.

So you have to wait for someone to come up with a solution that is prepared exactly for that purpose and is usable without this fundamental knowledge.

> [@Udoboe](#):
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> All I want is to evidence it is possible to make these .ws6 waveforms, and I am not seeing it here.

It is possible for sure (because there is nothing magic or special about the format description), but even for me (who understood the technical terms you claimed to be "blinding with science”) the workflow for doing that using a free standard tool like Audacity is a little too complicated, time consuming and failible.

So currently i am developing as part of my patch decoder and waveform visualizer  
(see there [Waveform and Spectrum visualization - #4 by MOOGelPackung](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/waveform-and-spectrum-visualization/448/4) )  
a tool that does all the required steps in one rush (or maybe two) … but even using that requires some kind of fundamental knowledge, because waveforms in general (especially if they come out of other instruments) have some pitfalls that require some kind of clever desicion.

> [@Udoboe](#):
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> The option seems to be changing the file extension from .wav to .ws6 when saving.

No, this is no option, because a .wav file has additional content in front (a header describing the contained wave data) and a .ws6 file has not. .ws6 is pure content without any header.  
You would have to cut of the first 44 bytes.

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