If anyone is interested in playing around with FM (or PM), have a look at the Elektron Digitone. It's "opinionated"; something like Ruby on Rails for FM with s

If anyone is interested in playing around with FM (or PM), have a look at the Elektron Digitone. It's "opinionated"; something like Ruby on Rails for FM with some guardrails to keep you in the sweet spot of sounds mostly. FM can become quite metallic / noisy quickly otherwise. Additionally you get an interesting sequencer and audio over usb in a custom format and it doesn't take up too much space. You can build small tracks completely on its own with it. There are also really good DX7 software emulations on the market but i suggest something more beginner friendly; even back in the 80s the DX7 was a pain to program. And theres a nice podcast episode about its ubiquity: https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/the-cyndi-lauper-conspiracy-sam-sanders-all-through-the-night https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/the-cyndi-lauper-conspira...