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FM synths have had something of a revival over the past decade. Electronic musicians are now spoiled for choice when it comes to hardware FM, with the likes of Elektron’s Digitone, Korg’s Volca FM and ...
It feels like FM synthesis is having something of a renaissance recently. It makes sense with the sounds of the ‘80s and ‘90s being increasingly in vogue. Elektron has the Digitone and launched the ...
Korg arguably kickstarted something of a synth revolution when it launched the Volca line. And the Volca FM has been a consistent favorite in the series. (It was also the first "real" synth I ever got ...
A few years back, Dean Miller created the Tele Servo Bender, a modified guitar that used servos to sound like a lap steel. His latest project moves to the low end, with a self-contained, battery ...
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"Where did all the knobs and sliders go?" It's no wonder that Yamaha's DX7 (and little brother DX9) caused such an upset when they were released in 1983. Gone were all the familiar controls, being ...
Chiptune is a musical genre built upon the creation of music through the use of chip-based sound synthesizers, found in early game consoles. The Commodore 64’s venerable SID chip and the Game Boy ...
A technique for generating the sounds of musical instruments for MIDI playback. Used in cellphones for ringtones and low-end sound cards, FM synthesis does not create sound as faithfully as wavetable ...