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And if you want to see and hear how musicians used FM synthesis in pre-Yamaha era then I would suggest to check this video with famous Laurie Spiegel playing in

And if you want to see and hear how musicians used FM synthesis in pre-Yamaha era then I would suggest to check this video with famous Laurie Spiegel playing in real-time on Alles synth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChqEEz31eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChqEEz31eE

jstewartmobile 9y ago
She wrote a program for the old mac called "Music Mouse" "This is a program I first wrote for my own use way back in 1986 on my spiffy new Mac 512k, that somehow ended up enough in demand that it became a so-called "product", and actually got rated as a "5 Mouse" program by MacUser Magazine. It lets you use the computer itself as a musical instrument, played by moving the mouse with one hand while you control dozens of available musical parameters from the Mac's "qwerty". It's a great musical idea generator, ear trainer, compositional tools, and improvising instrument. The software does a lot of harmony handling for you (you control the variables it uses for this), so it's useful - as are all "real instruments"at any level of musical training, experience, or skill, from beginning through professional." http://musicmouse.com http://musicmouse.com
jstewartmobile 9y ago
Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention that the Alles synth wasn't FM. It was additive, like a fourier transform. There's a neat little program called SPEAR for creating sounds using additive synthesis: http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/
- richard_shelton 9y ago
  Yes, Alles synth is mostly known by its additive synthesis. But don't you hear some classic FM timbres in the video? Please check this pdf too: http://retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/Alles_synth_1977.pdf http://retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/Alles_synth_1977.pdf
frankhorrigan 9y ago
One thing that's particularly cool about a lot of these earlier recordings is the amount of automation that's used. Obviously you can use MIDI in realtime for automation, but a lot of the studio use of these early synths didn't take advantage of it very often. Probably why you're way more used to hearing filter sweeps and the like in analog synthesis. Chowning's "Sabelithe" (on Spotify and Youtube) makes really cool use of synthesis to transform percussion elements into melodic elements over the progression of the piece.

jstewartmobile 9y ago

She wrote a program for the old mac called "Music Mouse" "This is a program I first wrote for my own use way back in 1986 on my spiffy new Mac 512k, that somehow ended up enough in demand that it became a so-called "product", and actually got rated as a "5 Mouse" program by MacUser Magazine. It lets you use the computer itself as a musical instrument, played by moving the mouse with one hand while you control dozens of available musical parameters from the Mac's "qwerty". It's a great musical idea generator, ear trainer, compositional tools, and improvising instrument. The software does a lot of harmony handling for you (you control the variables it uses for this), so it's useful - as are all "real instruments"at any level of musical training, experience, or skill, from beginning through professional." http://musicmouse.com http://musicmouse.com

jstewartmobile 9y ago

Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention that the Alles synth wasn't FM. It was additive, like a fourier transform. There's a neat little program called SPEAR for creating sounds using additive synthesis: http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

richard_shelton 9y ago
Yes, Alles synth is mostly known by its additive synthesis. But don't you hear some classic FM timbres in the video? Please check this pdf too: http://retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/Alles_synth_1977.pdf http://retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/Alles_synth_1977.pdf

frankhorrigan 9y ago

One thing that's particularly cool about a lot of these earlier recordings is the amount of automation that's used. Obviously you can use MIDI in realtime for automation, but a lot of the studio use of these early synths didn't take advantage of it very often. Probably why you're way more used to hearing filter sweeps and the like in analog synthesis. Chowning's "Sabelithe" (on Spotify and Youtube) makes really cool use of synthesis to transform percussion elements into melodic elements over the progression of the piece.