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

[cheater cheater]

There will definitely be a difference if you patch it into a filter
and turn up the input gain to where the filter starts saturating.

D.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 08:00, Electronic Battle
<electronicbattle at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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