Hi,
I have the Adventure Kid set of single cycle waveforms, and its great. But there are a lot of them, and I find it difficult to explore the set in a finite time.
I’d like to quickly browse with a sound preview through all of them, do you have any tips? How did you explore them?
Cheers!
Hello, problem with that kind of things is it’s generally intend to build a wavetable when you scan through multiple single cycle as a table. When using Single cycle waveform in the OT, DT or whatever sampler when you loop the single cycle to mimic a oscillator is you only have one shape with no movement (opposed to scaling through multiple SCW with the Wavetable position parameter)
So I suggest to find first the classic oscillator waveform, the one you like to work with as classic shape FIRST. Then there’s Additive, Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation, Formants, Fractal, Hybrid Modulation, Partials, phase shift, Spectral… uhf…
You can read the Galbanum explanations on its SCW collection Architecture :
http://www.galbanum.com/content/products/architecturewaveforms2010/pdf/ArchitectureWaveforms2010_ReferenceManual.pdf
Other SCW gives you more exotic tones, warm, cold, noisy et… you need to know as a start point which one is recommended for which sound design… Some are extremely helpful especially the chords one…
If you want to handle you SCW better to make a selection of it and reduce the amount prior to import in the OT I suggest something lie serum or another wavetable VST where you can import and experiment with. When you have something inspiring you put in a folder on your desktop for more experiment with the OT or DT
Do you Octatrack?
if yes, then you can create sample chains using Octachainer from @Abhoth grouping bunches of 64 and once in the OT you can slice and with the STRT knob (or linked crossfder) check them quickly.
@sicijk tips is very good to go more Wavetable Synthesis with your Single Cycle waveforms … (with an OT)
At the END, sound synthesis is just find an unheard (or pleasant) Tone, well shaped or interestingly shaped with eventually some tasty injected movement… and HOW it take life with notes/midi sequence/modulation.
I don’t want to be rude … but IMHO … no chance … just too many good samples …
I’ve got a similar huge collection and if some of the samples had no indication pointing to a “Jupiter 8”, a “Moog Modular”, or something else, making me imagine, what this or that could be … I would be totally lost.
Maybe the following thoughts will not be, what you expected, but this is how I approached “single waveshapes” …
This gave me, after some ear-eye-training, some basic understanding about the relation between waveshape and sound. It’s not perfect and I would not win any of those crazy TV challenges with my humble skill, but I think, I can at least make an educated guess, if I see a waveshape or listen to a sound.
Now, if I want to use a very individual sound for my production, I design my waveshape rather than plough through tons of samples.
Plug-ins like Harmor, Serum, and some other “spectral” synths allow to draw waveshapes or manipulate the spectrum of harmonics. Once understood, how such a particular waveshape should look like or sound like in general, makes tweaking after the first approach fun, until it fits to the idea, which I had. And there are many possibilities for exploring new territory too 
Nice tip about working with classic oscilator waveforms first, thanks.
Yes, I like to use the OT as a mono synth, so I will try sample chains, thanks!
Other thing to try when I have time: sample chains with LFO designer on slice.
But first I want to explore the samples and reduce the scope before going to the Octatrack.
And to do that, I also found out that I can use AudioFinder, with the “loop” button to on. Instant browsing of single cycle waveforms 
This forum can be advice overkill at times. All good info above but it looks like you were just looking to turn loop on lol
Haha, true.
cool tip re Audio Finder, need to try that today!
This is on the Digitakt, so not sure if the same works on OT. Just to browse and find single cycles that I want:
Load the whole set into memory that you want to explore. Or a folder at a time if you have them somewhat organized.
Then assign one of them to a pad trigger. Turn on loop, set up any other parameters you want as a part of your browsing (envelope settings, etc.)
Change to the source page, and start turning the sample knob. The settings for the track/trigger will apply to every sample as you page through them, so they will all be looped as you cycle through.
Found this tonight. Interesting-
http://scw.sheetsofsound.com/
Also found this one yeasterday. Great for previewing audio files
Just load the samples into your project, put the the track in loop mode, and unload the samples you want to chuck at the end. Boom, done.