[linux-audio-user] FM7 ?

[Rick Taylor]

Same here... KVR has a bunch of free synths that aren't nearly as complex as 
fm7. You might try some of them.


On Friday 17 December 2004 11:41 am, Matthew Allen wrote:
> 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.

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