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| Tom_cowan |
| Post nething to do with it here, i dont know much about it but would love to learn. Are there ne tutorials on it? Whats the best FM plugins/soft synths/hard synths? What sort of sounds can be produced with it? |
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| TraNcerke |
I'm a hardware synth freak so I only know what hardsynths are able to produce these sounds. First of all, it is a rather complicated type of synthesis which is able to produce those typical bell timbres and electric piano's as well as just special fx. Basicly it's one oscilator that frequence modulates the other one. The interesting thing with modern analog synths with fm is that you are not only restricted to a sine wave like on the yamaha dx7 (pioneer of fm) so you can create a wider range of timbres. I have 2 synths with fm : the yamaha an1x and the waldorf microQ. I've created some killer patches on both.
Almost all VA synths now have FM (novation, virus, nord lead,...)
but there is the yamaha dx200 ( a desktop synth) with a complete dx7 inside, it can even load dx7 patches so if you're after a complete fm synth go for the dx200, read the reviews, it has good ratings everywhere.:eek: |
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| TraNcerke |
The dx7 has 6 operators(oscilators if you wish), producing sine waves. There are 2 modes for each operator, you can set them either to modulator or to carrier
The carrier produces the actual sound and the modulator interacts with it. If you increase the fm amount on the operators the sound will go darker and more metallic, if you decrease the amount it can create some subtle changes needed to synthesise sounds like an electric piano. The fact that you can have 6 operators and interact these to each other is the thing va synths miss and that's why they cannot create as complex sounds as the dx7 and dx200. |
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| Tom_cowan |
| Iv got a virus and i get how to use the FM on that, I just thought there was more to it than that, fuk knows. |
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| TraNcerke |
| That's what I tried to say, the yammi dx series are far more complicated then on a va synth, you 've got more possibilities but you can program some good sounds on va's anyway. Put some time in it, route fm amount through an enveloppe. Use some extreme pitch, fm amount and sync values, mess around a bit, you become some cool results now and then. |
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| Theotrope |
I always thought the big weapon in FM were the envelopes, and the fact that you can turn an FM strength type of knob to "harshen the sound" whenever you want (think yahel's leads that suddenly go disjointed and the timbre changes completely for a moment)
as far as the envelopes, if youve got A feeding in to B, and B is a constant sine wave or something, and A has a volume envelope(that fades in and out, for example) and a really low feed, so its just altering B in very subtle ways.. *ramble*:eyespop:
thats how you get those pads that sound like theyre alive, by stacking very subtle variations with low feed, into each other
considering the FM7 has ENV parameters that can be jacked all the way up to a minute (maybe more, i cant remember), you can make a pad thats basically never the same at any one point in a tune.
regs. Entheogen |
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