Same here... KVR has a bunch of free synths that aren't nearly as complex as fm7. You might try some of them. On Friday 17 December 2004 11:41 am, Matthew Allen wrote: > I will jump in here to. My first major synth purchase was an SY-99, > and I currently own an FS1-r and 2 TG-77's. Alas all 3 of them are > collecting dust due to FM7 and a couple of custom PD patches I have > built. But I am a serious FM junky. The crazy noises and squels I > could get my TG77's to produce still makes me smile, particularly when > you forced the oscillators into territory they didn't want to go and > got once osc to alias its output, and then fed the aliased output into > a new oscilator, thats still something I have had a heard time > reproducing with software. > > I suppose I should dig them out of storage. > > m. > > 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. -- www.RTaylor-Design.Com
