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Originally posted by cryophonik This has been hugely informative, MrJiveBoJingles.

Good. It's been helping my understanding of FM as well to make these patches and explain how they work.

Made this patch for fun...it's a pad sound called "Back to the 80s" for obvious reasons: [mp3]

I couldn't resist backing it up with an '80s drum loop.

Operators A and B provide the low end, while C and D give brightness to it. The routing is mostly in parallel (operators going directly out rather than through one another), though there is a little modulation from A to B to C to give it some more sparkle. If you turn off Operators D and C it sounds more usable in the context of today's music: [mp3]

And here's the patch: [patch]

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Originally posted by cryophonik This has been hugely informative, MrJiveBoJingles. Keep 'em coming!!!! This thread should be a sticky.

yeah a sticky would be great

anyway is it just me or does the FM pad sound more inspirational then any other analogue modelling synth?

Late at night, so it's time for a weird patch.

[mp3]



This one uses FM7's pitch envelope to slide the pitch up automatically when the note is released. The amplitude of Operators E and F is set to increase as well (through their envelopes), giving it a kind of "delay" effect even when played dry. You can tone down the envelope a bit to get a more "musical"-sounding result: [mp3]

Here's the patch: [patch]

^ With a little tweaking of the envelopes in the patch above -- making the attack punchier, decreasing the volume in the release phase, and toning down the pitch bend of the release phase, I got this weird little synth keyboard noise:

http://jbj.raceriv.com/sounds/patches/wtf-mod1.mp3

jbj this is great stuff!

I need to use FM7/8 some more. I really don't like 8, its interface is sort of annoying, even though its technically more compact than 7.

Oh well, good stuff again!

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Originally posted by atxbigballer1 http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/article.cfm?id=148

Came in here to post that link. Great tutorial! FM Synthesis is cool.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Made this patch for fun...it's a pad sound called "Back to the 80s" for obvious reasons: [mp3]

Love it!

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

anyone know how to get a saw chord like sound using fm synthesis?

I just made a simple saw chord with a bit of FModulation in FM8... dunno if thats what you mean

sample and preset here:

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