[linux-audio-user] FM7 ?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:39:32 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
> >
> Count me in on one who likes FM.  You can do a lot with FM, even with 4
> operators. We used the YM2151 - a Yamaha 4 operator FM chip -- in many
> of our games at Atari (from 1984 to maybe 1994)  Using a single 1MHz
> 6502 to feed the YM2151 - only 8 monophonic channels; still a milestone
> in arcade sound. And I think most of them sound pretty good.
> A lot of experimenting to get interesting sounds... but ,that's the fun
> part.
> 
> brad
> 

I still have my DX-7 but all the voices in it got blown away with some
editor I tried out maybe 5 years ago. Sicne then it jsut sits. I need
to try reloading it one of these days. I kept it for the feel of the
keyboard. Very different from my Studio Logic controller.

- Mark