Many thanks for all the compliments, Andrew, Carlos, Will and Chris :D On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:48:21AM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > > http://www.archive.org/details/fm_casserole > > Nice work! Awesome sounds. Can you tell me about your FM synthesis > technique; specifically, how did you construct that cool sounding > "plonky delay" bass that runs throughout the piece? The basic concept is having separately MIDI controled FM operators. One is made to play a single note, the other melodic stuff tuned to result in good-sounding FM. A third operator thrown in for more complex attack phases. It's one patch with 3 MIDI inputs. 2 of them control FM operator subpatches. The 3rd is used to trigger 2 things via different notes: a sine-based kick used as influence to one operator, and a feedback loop on an AmpV plugin. There's also some delay applied for retriggering envelopes. It's actualy quite a mess, so following Loki's request, I put the the patches with the MusE song and MIDI export up at http://thorwil.affenbande.org/fm_casserole.tar.bz2 (28.8 KB) Sadly it will only work with one specific patched CVS version of Om, which you can get at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/files/om-synth-0.3.0pre.tar.bz2 Just don't ask Dave for any support. Actualy, best leave him alone until next release ;) The current SVN version of Ingen might be able to load the patches so you can at least look at the structure, though. -- Thorsten Wilms
