Audio Examples made using JSyn - a Java Synthesizer API
Modulated Sawtooth
How it works:
The sound you hear is being generated by an SawtoothOscillator unit. The frequency of the sawtooth is being modulated by a TriangleOscillator running at a low frequency.
ModRate controls the frequency of the Triangle
LFO ("Low Frequency Oscillator").
ModDepth controls how much the Sawtooth frequency
is modulated by the LFO.
CenterFreq controls the frequency of the sawtooth
before modulation is applied.
HalfLife controls the decay time of an exponential
lag generator. It determines how long it takes the output to decay
half way to its target value. This Lag function can be forced to a high
value using the "Ping" button. The lag function then decays
to its input level, in this case 0.0, with the specified half life.