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Ø Saw

Bitwig Platform

Ø Saw module panel in Bitwig Grid
Ø Saw in Bitwig Grid 6.0.6.

Reads phase as a bipolar rising saw shape, ready to become audio or modulation at the phase source's rate.

What it does

Ø Saw translates position within a phase cycle into a sawtooth value. It has no independent frequency: the connected phase source determines rate, reset, sync, and any phase distortion before the lookup.

Controls and ports

The visible module provides one phase input and one bipolar waveform output. The recovered implementation additionally receives a shared Sharpness value.

Practical uses

  • Drive it from an audio-rate Phasor to make a saw oscillator.
  • Process the phase through Bend, Pinch, Sync, or other phase modules before Ø Saw to reshape its spectrum.
  • Use a slow phase signal for a rising cyclic modulation ramp.

Things to know

  • This is a lookup shape rather than a complete oscillator, so phase processing remains separate and explicit.
  • The output rises across most of the cycle and discontinuously returns at wrap.
  • That wrap discontinuity can alias when scanned at audio rate.
  • The role and visible origin of the recovered Sharpness input still require wrapper confirmation.

Technical details

A high-confidence Nitro implementation candidate supports the technical summary, but the visible-module mapping remains inferred.

The confirmed implementation wraps phase x and outputs 2 * min(1 - x, x * sharpness) - 1. With sufficiently high Sharpness, this behaves as a rising saw over most of the cycle while shaping a short transition near its beginning. The exact shared Sharpness value determines the boundary shape.

Nitro port Type
x InputAudioPortType
sharpness InputAudioPortType
out OutputAudioPortType

Open questions

  • Identify the visible or implicit Sharpness setting and measure the cycle boundary and aliasing behavior.

Version and sources

Checked against Bitwig Studio 6.0.6. This page combines Bitwig's module metadata, the existing Grid course and guides, and Nitro analysis where the mapping is strong enough to support a technical statement.

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Also matches: Bitwig Ø Saw module, Bitwig Grid Ø Saw, Ø Saw Grid module