[sdiy] They aren't sawtooths, they're ramps

Electronic Battle electronicbattle at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 3 09:00:51 CET 2009


>> That's not the case at all; it is just describing the same waveform 
>> twice. The defining difference is the nature of the transition >> being 
>> linear or exponential, as per my original email.

> Aha! :)
> I'm with you now.
> I tried Cheater's suggestion and was able to get a nice looking sawtooth 
> (exp...of course) on the O'scope. I did a quick audio
> comparison with a ramp wave and I couldn't hear a difference between the 
> two.

Excellent! Thanks for trying Cheater's clever idea for approximating an 
exponential saw from a ramp;  I had hoped there would be a noticeable 
audible difference. Oh well.

Best wishes

EB 




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