A waveform consisting of a number of slightly detuned sawtooth waves superimposed. This waveform is frequently used particularly for lead and bass sounds in the trance, progressive house, electro house, and future bass genres. It produces a characteristic buzzing sound which is sharp in the treble, but not thin in the bass like a conventional sawtooth can be.
The supersaw was originally popularized by the Roland JP-8000 virtual analog synth in the 1990s. It saw a revival in the mid-2000s as many soft synths and more recent virtual analog synths included the ability to produce the waveform.