[linux-audio-user] FM7 ?

[Matthew Allen]

I will jump in here to. My first major synth purchase was an SY-99,
and I currently own an FS1-r and 2 TG-77's. Alas all 3 of them are
collecting dust due to FM7 and a couple of custom PD patches I have
built. But I am a serious FM junky. The crazy noises and squels I
could get my TG77's to produce still makes me smile, particularly when
you forced the oscillators into territory they didn't want to go and
got once osc to alias its output, and then fed the aliased output into
a new oscilator, thats still something I have had a heard time
reproducing with software.

 I suppose I should dig them out of storage. 

m.

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.