Unison

A detuned sawtooth swarm in a single module. One pitch in, up to eight sawtooth voices fanned out around it and summed to one fat, shimmering output — the classic supersaw sound for leads, pads, and anything that needs to feel wide.

How it works

Every active voice is a sawtooth tuned a little sharp or flat of the note you feed in. Detune sets how far they spread — from dead unison up to ±50 cents — and the voices fan out evenly and symmetrically around the note (an odd voice count keeps one saw dead-centre on pitch; an even count straddles it, so nothing sits exactly on the note). As their phases drift apart the saws beat against each other, giving the moving, chorused texture. The output is averaged across the voices, so the level stays roughly constant as you add or drop them.

Controls

• Voices — how many sawtooths play, from 1 to 8. More voices, thicker swarm.
• Detune — how wide the voices spread; fully down is pure unison, fully up is ±50 cents of shimmer.
• Swarm display — one dot per voice tracking its live phase, so you can watch the swarm drift and bunch.

Inputs & outputs

• V/oct — pitch for the whole swarm; patch a sequencer, keyboard, or another oscillator.
• Out — the summed sawtooth swarm, ready for a filter or amp.

Tips

• Keep Detune low for a subtly reinforced single note; push it up for trance-lead width and slow chorus beating.
• Run Out through a low-pass gate or filter — the raw saws are bright, and taming the top end is where the swarm sits best in a mix.