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Fell totally in love with FM synthesis this year. Thoughts on it? - SynthWizard - 01-26-2020
Fell totally in love with FM synthesis this year. Thoughts on it?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>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).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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!!!</p> <p>The trailer (the project fell through as I'm moving into animating my movie ideas): </p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/7hpOuv3CUiA">https://youtu.be/7hpOuv3CUiA</a></p> <p>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).</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shocksfrombeyond"> /u/shocksfrombeyond </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/etx6zu/fell_totally_in_love_with_fm_synthesis_this_year/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/etx6zu/fell_totally_in_love_with_fm_synthesis_this_year/">[comments]</a></span>