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This isn't quite FM, though Jean-Claude Risset from Bell Laboratories did some contemporary experiments using additive synthesis with analog oscillators to achi
by ajxs 5y ago
This isn't quite FM, though Jean-Claude Risset from Bell Laboratories did some contemporary experiments using additive synthesis with analog oscillators to achieve similar complex tones. I'm guessing that Yamaha probably experimented with all kinds of interesting prototypes before developing the VLSI FM chips that would go into their earliest FM synthesisers. It was a very large investment for them as a company, so they likely tried all kinds of things first with existing technology they had on hand.
- jacquesm 5y agoTrue FM would have been cost prohibitive, phase modulation sounds just the same to all intents and purposes without the associated extra technical complexity (and with two massive custom ASICs this was already quite a complex machine).