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Sawtooth waves and symmetry</A>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="fig10.02"></A><A NAME="14265"></A>
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<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 10.2:</STRONG>
Using a symmetry relation to extract even and odd harmonics from a
sawtooth wave: (a) the
original sawtooth wave; (b) shifted by 1/2 cycle; (c) their sum (another
sawtooth wave at
twice the frequency); (d) their difference (a square wave).</CAPTION>
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As an example, we apply the shift symmetry (even and odd harmonics) to a
sawtooth wave. Figure <A HREF="#fig10.02">10.2</A> (part a) shows the original sawtooth wave
and part (b) shows the result of shifting by a half cycle. The sum of the two
(part c) drops discontinuously whenever either one of the two copies does so,
and traces a line segment whenever both component sawtooth waves do; so it in
turn becomes a sawtooth wave, of half the original period (twice the
fundamental frequency). Subtracting the two sawtooth waves (part d) gives a
waveform with slope zero except at the discontinuities. The discontinuities
coming from the original sawtooth wave jump in the same direction (negative to
positive), but those coming from the shifted one are negated and jump from
positive to negative. The result is a
<A NAME="14269"></A><I>square wave</I>,
a particular rectangle wave in which the two component segments
have the same duration.
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This symmetry was used to great effect in the design of Buchla analog
synthesizers; instead of offering a single sawtooth generator,
Buchla designed an oscillator that outputs the even and odd harmonic portions
separately, so that cross-fading between the two allows a continuous control
over the relative strengths of the even and odd harmonics in the analog
waveform.
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