[sdiy] Re: sawtooth vs PWM (Re: Synthesizers...)

[John Mahoney]

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Tom Wiltshire wrote:
 > calibration, and looking at the way that the Rhodes Chroma uses a
 > ramp plus a PWM pulse wave to mimic the effect of two detuned sawteeth.
 > Apparently these two are equivalent, but I'm yet to prove it to myself to
 > my satisfaction.

In SOS, Gordon Reid explains the converse (or is it the inverse?), 
"Emulating PWM with modulated sawtooth and ramp waves":
	http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/synthsecrets47.asp

John