It is often used in sound synthesis. See also: Fourier Theorem, Oscillator. Compare: Pulse, Square Wave, Triangle Wave. Sawtooth wave, its description as a Fourier series, and as a line spectrum.

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 ...