This waveform family simulates the sound of a trapezoidal pulse wave processed by a low-pass,
peaking, band-pass, or high-pass resonant filter. The parameter controls the cutoff frequency of the
is particularly good at recreating the dirty, saturated sound, of a sawtooth filtered by
the least academic of the 2-pole analog filters.
This waveform vaguely evokes two hardsync’ed oscillators — the parameter controlling their
frequency ratio. It may or may not have been used in the Casio CZ-101.
: swarm of 4 buzzing detuned sawtooth waves
As the name implies, this waveform made of four stacked sawtooth waves is useful for pads (when a
copious amount of filtering is applied) or for buzzing trance leads. The parameter controls the amount
of detuning between the four waves. Note that no bandlimiting is happening here, so this thing doesn’t
sound quite good above C5… but it’s doing a perfect job in the bass range!
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