Do I HAVE to understand wavetables?

I've been into edm prod for a few months now, and I noticed when trying to make sounds, I just scroll through wavetables to find a starting point.

That's my issue. I'm basically hoping to find a good wavetable that fits my idea of a. sound, without much understanding of it.

I'm using sylenth1 a lot, so I know what sorts of wavetables I need to use for certain sounds. (sine, triangle, square,...).

But when going to Serum, I can assume that more complex sounds require more complex wavetables.

So, is there any way of better understanding wavetables or is it just a hit and miss by scrolling through presets?

Thanks in advance!

Submitted May 05, 2017 at 09:43AM by muro808 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/69efr5/do_i_have_to_understand_wavetables/?utm_source=ifttt