Best FM synth?
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Best FM synth?
But is there some great linux native FM synths? Dexed is not enough, I want something which has also other waveforms than sine.
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Re: Best FM synth?
F.'em costs a fortune, so that is not option for me.
Cardinal, interesting point. That would be valid reason to learn it. How complicated it is to make patch with 2 OSC which have own envelope, and second is FM modulated with first? And is feedback possible?
One option would be learn FM features in Tranzistow. Not easy thing, and don't know if there is any documentation / instructions available for it
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Re: Best FM synth?
Oxe Fm Synth has different waveformstavasti wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:48 pm I found out old windows FM synth DoubleSix ( https://vst4you.com/pages/vst%20instrum ... lesix.html )
But is there some great linux native FM synths? Dexed is not enough, I want something which has also other waveforms than sine.
There are several tutorial on YT about FM, mostly done in VCV, but you can apply the same concepts in Cardinal
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Re: Best FM synth?
Right, beside Yoshimi most of the modern FOSS synths (Zyn, Surge/SurgeXT, Odin2...) can do it too.
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Yeah, ZynAddSubFX and Yoshimi do have FM modulator, but you can have only one modulator for one voice, and not multiple, chained or parallel.
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Not quite sure why you'd want more, however in Yoshi (dunno about Zyn) you can do the following:
Voice 1 modulated but volume set to zero
Voice 2 - whole of voice one further modulated - volume zero
Voice 3 - whole of voice 2 further modulated - use this or go on all the way to 8
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To be honest, I don't know even myself what FM can do and what not, and how many modulators are needed. However, classical DX7 modulation operators include stuff like this: So I assume is makes sense to have longer chain of modulators, at least in some circumstances.folderol wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:17 am Not quite sure why you'd want more, however in Yoshi (dunno about Zyn) you can do the following:
Voice 1 modulated but volume set to zero
Voice 2 - whole of voice one further modulated - volume zero
Voice 3 - whole of voice 2 further modulated - use this or go on all the way to 8
And yeah, functionality seems to be there also in Zyn, just needed some time to spot it. Configuring and understanding dependencies would be easier with some clear matrix display, like in F.'em but sure it is different: zyn and yoshimi are more complete synths, containing much more than fm only.
I think this is really great tip from you, zyn/yosh are anyway my faw synths, and now just learning better to use them.
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tavasti wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:05 am And yeah, functionality seems to be there also in Zyn, just needed some time to spot it. Configuring and understanding dependencies would be easier with some clear matrix display, like in F.'em but sure it is different: zyn and yoshimi are more complete synths, containing much more than fm only.
Oxe Fm Synth has a modulation matrix:
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Re: Best FM synth?
For parallel modulation you keep the volume up, and for the other voices, you select voice 1 waveform (instead of the internal one).
One of the modulation types that is hardly ever used is the Morph type - because people don't think it does anything!
That's because they don't realise you must enable the envelope for it, as that is what sweeps between the voice waveform and the modulation one
Put the envelope in 'Free' mode and you can have up to 40 sweeps (or partial ones) between them while sounding.
For a bit of fun, set the first few sweeps with fairly short times, with each successive one being a bit longer so you get a sort of bounce slowing down.
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This looks like pretty potential thing. UI is not the best, but tolerable.LAM wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:22 amtavasti wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:05 am And yeah, functionality seems to be there also in Zyn, just needed some time to spot it. Configuring and understanding dependencies would be easier with some clear matrix display, like in F.'em but sure it is different: zyn and yoshimi are more complete synths, containing much more than fm only.Oxe Fm Synth has a modulation matrix:
Biggest flaw is that FM Depth is not adjustable separately for each OSC. And sure, 3 OSC is bit limited.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmFnA0YsUc
fm synthesis with two bogaudio modules.
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Found out that in Zyn that feature is broken. When modulating with other osc, that osc is used unmodulated. Meaning you cannot really do chained modulations with it. Worth reporting bug.
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