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Supersaw
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Roland JP-8000.
Supersaw
The supersaw is a waveform created by Roland for its JP-8000 and JP-8080 line of analog modeling synthesizers. It emulates the sound of multiple detuned sawtooth oscillators. The waveform is described as a free-run oscillator whose shape resembles 7 sawtooth oscillators detuned against each other over a period of time. The Supersaw became a genre-defining aspect of trance and hardcore. The Supersaw and supersaw-inspired copies eventually found their way into many early 21st century electronic dance music genres as well as the pop-charts via electronic dance music remixes of pop songs.