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In a message dated 99-10-25 09:09:04 EDT, you write:

<< When I
was taught electronic music many yahrens ago, I was beaten into calling
positive-going waves "ramps" and negative, "sawtooths," with full knowledge
that these were arbitrary names for otherwise identical waves. >>



ken,
without dragging out all my old books to double check, i can`t recall
anywhere in the literature that such a distinction was made. some just
arbitrarily called them 'sawtooth" , others favored "ramp" and i don`t recall
there ever being a mention about calling them different thing based on
positive or negative slope.
best,
dave