Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
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Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
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#2I love FM synthesis and I love Robert Henke. Great article
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#3Oh I love FM synths! I'm working on a customisable one in my spare time lately for the kids' school, as the music teacher was complaining that the students have been using all the same samples over and over. Feel free to have a peek! Desktop only. Source code is hopefully nice and clean too: https://chrishulbert.github.io/you-synth
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#4Ah Operator. This synth is so deep. Not only is it a fantastic FM synth, but it does subtractive synthesis well too. Also, it really is impressive how the UI manages to fit all those parameters. I mostly use it for cool synth leads. Here's one of my favorite videos on Operator https://youtu.be/rfeY0_k1ctk?si=s68Lr033cHf34a4M by Robert Henke himself.
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#5I love FM synthesis and I love Robert Henke. Great article
Had the good luck of attending an Henke (Monolake) concert in large-ish and cubical space fully rigged with speaker arrays doing wave-field-synthesis which was beyond anything I heard before or since. Loud is one thing, gigantic is something else.
https://roberthenke.com/concerts/wfs.html
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#6Fyi Robert Henke's new album came out a few weeks ago: https://roberthenke.bandcamp.com/album/studio
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#7Reason has a very nice and versatile FM synth, "Algoritm": https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack-extension/algoritm-f...
Ableton tutorial features an excellent (and completely free) FM synth in-browser: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/en/playground
Re: Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
#8Oh I love FM synths! I'm working on a customisable one in my spare time lately for the kids' school, as the music teacher was complaining that the students have been using all the same samples over and over. Feel free to have a peek! Desktop only. Source code is hopefully nice and clean too: https://chrishulbert.github.io/you-synth
Super cool. Well done. Now make it a full Yamaha ReFace DX ;)
Also woaah, the randomize is amazing.
Proposal: make z and x change octave.
Re: Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
#9FM is one of the most "naturally digital" synthesis method to implement, it's trivial once you have an accumulator and sin table working. The simplest form (and arguably the easiest to sound musical), can be expressed with a one-liner formula:
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#10somebody please make a plugin version of operator for both windows and mac, there are zero good options for fm synth plugins in 2024 except for sytrus on windows if they even still sell it. exacoustics GHOST is looking very promising though, just still in its teething stages