Dave Phillips wrote: > John Check wrote: > >> On Sunday 12 December 2004 06:13 pm, Dave Phillips wrote: >> >> >>> Greetings, Earthlings: >>> >>> As a long-time fan of FM synthesis I've been wondering whether I >>> >> >> >> There's something you don't hear every day >> > You mean the FM fanboy part ? I guess it's a little unusual, but that > was the first synthesis method I learned. I bought a TX81Z when it > first came out and I really tore into it. For me, FM synthesis has > never been as difficult as some people make it out to be. > >> Are you interested in a Casio VZ-8M? I was planning on cannibalizing >> it for >> the case, but it's a pretty groovy piece if you like FM. >> > Ooh, that's a nice piece ! Alas, Xmas has wiped me out, I'm already > totally broke, and there's still rent to pay. :( > > Man, you should keep that board, it's a sweetheart. :) > Count me in on one who likes FM. You can do a lot with FM, even with 4 operators. We used the YM2151 - a Yamaha 4 operator FM chip -- in many of our games at Atari (from 1984 to maybe 1994) Using a single 1MHz 6502 to feed the YM2151 - only 8 monophonic channels; still a milestone in arcade sound. And I think most of them sound pretty good. A lot of experimenting to get interesting sounds... but ,that's the fun part. brad
