<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">When mixing waveforms on the minimoog using the inverted ramp on osc3 makes a big difference!<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from outer space</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 9 Dec 2024, at 12:06, Mattias Rickardsson <mr@analogue.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Donald Tillman <<a href="mailto:don@till.com">don@till.com</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>Note that a sawtooth ramping down has all the harmonics in phase with the fundamental.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>And a sawtooth ramping up has its harmonics alternating in phase (+1, -1/2, +1/3, -1/4,...) from the fundamental.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But are you counting from the midpoint now? Surely they must still be in phase if you just flip the sawtooth backwards around its discontinuity?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, triangle/square/saw do have different overtone phase relationships, and I agree it's very important. Both when constructing new waveforms and when mixing oscillators together. The overtones cancel or reinforce in different ways, some of them useful and some not helpful at all.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Are there any synths using modified waveforms with alternative overtone phase setups, in order to match each other (or avoid matching each other) for different results?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/mr</div><div dir="auto"></div></div>
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