On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:39:32 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > I still have my DX-7 but all the voices in it got blown away with some editor I tried out maybe 5 years ago. Sicne then it jsut sits. I need to try reloading it one of these days. I kept it for the feel of the keyboard. Very different from my Studio Logic controller. - Mark
