SAU W-oscillator wave type collection

Here's a list of wave types with rendered audio for the W oscillator. Apart from the built-in types, there's also recipes for making various wave types using modulation techniques.

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Wave type palette

Each instance of W can use any one wave type in the built-in set – available to listen to below, these waveforms are also described in the wave type table on the language page. This built-in set is meant to make the most useful static waveforms easy to reach for. Of course, further types of waves can be made by combining several W instances, adding waves of different type, frequency, phase, polarity, etc. – or modulating them.

The WAV files for the types have been produced with an extra-high sample rate and downsampled; this makes particularly the saw wave cleaner, but the difference with simpler rendering is otherwise difficult to hear.

WAV

Sine.

Wsin t3

Odd-harmonic main trio

WAV

Triangle. Mellow – upper harmonics decrease fast.

Wtri t3
WAV

Square root of sine. Medium-bright – upper harmonics decrease moderately fast.

Wsrs t3
WAV

Square. Bright – upper harmonics decrease slowly.

Wsqr t3

Even-harmonic main trio

WAV

Evenangle. Mellow – upper harmonics decrease fast.

Wean t3
WAV

Catear. Medium-bright – upper harmonics decrease moderately fast.

Wcat t3
WAV

Eventooth. Bright – upper harmonics decrease slowly.

Weto t3

All-harmonic main trio

WAV

Parabola. Mellow – upper harmonics decrease fast.

Wpar t3
WAV

Mellowtooth. Medium-bright – upper harmonics decrease moderately fast.

Wmto t3
WAV

Sawtooth. Bright – upper harmonics decrease slowly.

Wsaw t3

Other wave types

WAV

Half-rectified sine. Mellow (louder harmonics) – upper harmonics decrease fast.

Whsi t3
WAV

Sine parabola. Mellow (quieter harmonics) – upper harmonics decrease fast.

Wspa t3