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Uhhh I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what i'm saying. I am well aware that there is a multitude of things serum can do that harmor can't, but wavetables are not one of them. This is because harmor resambling is basically an additive wavetable. you can set the course/speed to zero, which will result in a single held wave-form, and cycle through it as if it was a wavetable, the difference is that it does so additively, rather than subtractively (harmonically, rather than literal per cycle wave shape)
The only ways that this is different (since both have 2 slots for re-sampling) is that serum is focused on the shape of the wav, rather than it's harmonic content, and the best reason for that is subtractive synthesis which uses phase cancelation, or for distortion. additive synthesis simply doesn't have that attribute the same.
Otherwise the key difference is in bend-modes, and different ways to interpret waves asymetrically (like intentionally using the wrong pitch when re-sampling) as well as in-serum wave-shaping with bend modes.
As for the posibility to draw waveforms from nothing, yes, that's what a saw wave into waveshaper does.
See, waveshaper gives you an input output graph, like a compressor, except that there is zero delay on it. and what this does is takes whatever amplitude of any given part of a wave and snaps it to a different amplitude. so if you take a saw wave, and draw a sine wave in waveshaper, and the levels are correct going in, you will get an output of the exact sine-wave that you drew. it is literal, 1:1. of course if you use something other than a saw wav then yeah, you'd get a different output. here. i'll actually do this part and screencap it, just so that you can be clear of what's going on, I'll even mark it out, and if this is not what you meant by "drawing the wave" then you can explain it to me.
as for setting your own modulation positions, yes, that is cool. but again, that's something I don't fully understand, again, because it's the shape of the wave, rather than its harmonic content. (which is why I don't typically use waveshaper in this way to begin with)
so collectively, the difference between serum, and harmor + waveshaper, is that serum preserves the waves shape in wavetables, but harmor preserves just the harmonic content.
Serum warps and manipulates the waves shape,
harmor warps and manipulates the harmonic content.
I'm not trying to argue about the things they have in common, I'm trying to learn about the specific things that are different.
the first image is the waveshaper,
the second is a comparison of serum and harmor.
The red highlighted knob in serum is unique to serum.
The green and blue highlighted features are basically the same (when harmor's other displayed knobs are in those positions)
I want to know about that thing I highlighted in red, and how to use it consistently, and you're telling me that the blue and green aren't the same, when they functionally are (except that serum literally recreates the exact wave shape, where harmor reproduces that wave shape's harmonic content, meaning they will sound the same but look different, except for stereo samples with phasing but I don't even know if serum can do that either)