I remember in the relatively early days of synths that ramps and sawtooths
were referred to diffeently but I thought it had to do with the frequency
rather than direction. dummy me!
>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>Reply-To: motm@onelist.com
>To: <motm@onelist.com>
>Subject: [motm] Carriers, Modulators, Sawtooths, & Ramps oh my
>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:38:59 -0500
>
>Dear Crank:
>
> > Many synth modules have two inputs that act upon each other, and these
>are
> > typically called the "carrier" and "modulator." Now common sense says
>that
> > the "carrier" ought to be the signal that is being modified, and the
> > "modulator" is the one doing the modifying. At least whenever such a
> > distinction can be made.
>
>I totally agree with you. We are right and the rest of the world is wrong.
>The voices inside my head told me so.
>
>I was beaten into calling
> > positive-going waves "ramps" and negative, "sawtooths," with full
> > knowledge
> > that these were arbitrary names for otherwise identical waves. But I was
> > told that these were agreed-upon conventions in the E-Music world to
>help
> > make things simple.
> >
> > Yet years later, I seem to be the only person who's ever heard of
> > this. And
> > it seemed like such a good convention. Did my mentors make this
> > up? It would
> > seem to be a pretty localized convention.
>
>Never heard that one. In my world, ramps go both up and down.
>
>Moe
>
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