Roland Supersaw - any idea how the original was done?

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odibo wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2026 1:21 am Speaking of which. The mostly inaudible aliasing in the upper frequency region brings a pleasant, powerful energy to the sound which properly antialised sawtooth oscillators don't have. If your ears are old, you will hear that only to a lesser extent.
I have to disagree on this one, because I don't think there's really anything pleasant about it.

With unison it does make the higher frequencies a bit more dense and noisy compared to perfectly clean band-limited waveforms with a similar unison count, but there are other ways to thicken the sound of unison oscillators that doesn't suffer from aliasing.

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Hehehe, just for the record, Aliasing was never pleasant for me, and even my now old ears still recognise enough "warbling" to always prefer perfectly anti-aliased oscillators...

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Correction:
"... brings a pleasant, powerful energy to the sound ..." in some musical context.

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