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Old 6th December 2009   #8
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Originally Posted by alehoe View Post
you can also blend it the saw wave with a triangle wave, if your oscillators let you
Yeah, using a triangle or a sine one octave lower will give more body to the sound without the flapping. I don't know about a sawtooth, though.

The thing with sawtooths and squares is that they have near-discontinuities, which at low frequencies sound like clicks (i.e.- flapping).
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