Arturia 2 manual Sawtooth waveform and its harmonic spectrum

•The tuning parameter (“COARSE” or “FREQUENCY”) allows you to tune the oscillator by semi-tones on a range of 5 octaves.

•The fine tuning parameter (“FINE”) finely tunes the oscillator upwards or downwards by a semi-tone. This parameter gives a bit more life to your sound when you use several oscillators simultaneously, due to difference in frequencies between the oscillators.

The waveform determines the harmonic richness of the audio signal. On the Jupiter-8V, four waveforms are available:

•The saw tooth wave presents the richest audio signal of the available waveforms (it contains all of the harmonics at decreasing volume levels in high frequencies). Its sound is ideal for brass sounds, percussive bass sounds or rich pad sounds.

The Sawtooth waveform and its harmonic spectrum

•The square wave possesses a more “hollow” sound than the saw tooth (it only contains odd harmonics) but none the less, its rich sound (notably in low frequencies) can be used for sub-bass sounds that will come out well in the mix (the square oscillator is often set an octave below that of the saw tooth), wood sounds (clarinet, if the square signal is a little filtered), etc.

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