This is a sine wave, they say, this is a sawtooth, this is a square wave, and so on. We’re taught to look at the lines on the screen as idealised, a square wave is truly square, and the ...

See: COMPLEX TONE, FOURIER THEOREM, HARMONIC SERIES, SINE WAVE. Compare: GRANULAR SYNTHESIS, SOUND SYNTHESIS. Successive approximations of a sawtooth wave by addition of harmonics with amplitude ...

Successive approximations of a SAWTOOTH WAVE by addition of harmonics with amplitude inversely proportional to the harmonic number. The resultant waveform at each stage of addition is shown at right.