It started a year ago when I scored a trailer entirely with FL Studio DX10. I found the FM concept easy to understand because of the visual representation in the VST (when I use other VST FM synths I choose a very simple algorithm as I assume the DX10 is setup- it doesnt give you options for such).
I cant explain exactly why, but I feel like I get "cleaner" sounds or something, maybe because FM is sort of like starting with a pure sine and then adding harmonics? I'm not stacking a bunch of oscillators then carving out what I don't want (subtractive synthesis)? I feel like I get less random meaningless harmonics/troublesome frequencies (mud/annoying resonance). I'm not a mixing or recording expert or anything, but this cant be my imagination.
I got all these SURPRISINGLY WARM and often RATHER CONVINCING sounds easily and largely accidentally- a brass/horn patch, a theremin- like sound, stuff that sounds pretty choir-like (I was just going nuts tweaking not really thinking about what type of sounds I was going for). All stuff I didnt know FM was good at. It's more of a swiss army knife than gets credit for!!!
The trailer (the project fell through as I'm moving into animating my movie ideas):
Anyways just musing here. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experiences regarding the advantages of FM (dont just say it's hard, that's a common refrain).
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