Matej
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FMYNTH=from words "FM+SYNTH"

Lets create new music genre (electronic music subgenre).
And lets call it simply FMYNTH.

How it will sounds like (inspiration):
Aphex Twin - FLIM
http://www.last.fm/music/Aphex+Twin/_/Flim
Apollo 440 - VANISHING POINT
http://www.last.fm/music/Apollo+440/_/Vanishing+Point
Röyksopp - IN SPACE
http://www.last.fm/music/R%C3%B6yksopp/_/In+Space

Demo:
R4C7 http://chipmusic.org/r4c7/music/fmynth-demo
PUKE FLYTAKER http://chipmusic.org/puke_flytalker/music/fmynth-demo
(more to come...)

Definition:
Nice Bassline and Main Melody (FM)
Uplifting Highpitched Drums
Liquid Cymbals
Very Easy Listening

Tools:
FM+ (main melody)
+psg (everything else)
+vsti (everything else)
+samples (everything else)

13.nov.2013
Matej^forum.fmsynthesis.com
Send me PM if you are interested in...

Last edited by Matej (Nov 16, 2013 9:36 am)

SketchMan3
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Name of the "new genre" sounds like mints they'd sell at an arcade.

Matej
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SketchMan3 wrote:

Name of the "new genre" sounds like mints they'd sell at an arcade.

Haha FMYNTH aka Feppermint Music! Yep. Can be something fresh...

BTW I am working on my demo track... I will upload here demo and plus each instrument (pattern) as mp3. So you will have perfect definition for FMYNTH style...

Last edited by Matej (Nov 13, 2013 8:17 pm)

r4c7
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So is this basically a more ambient focused liquid-dnb? Or more breakbeat?
Anyways, I made this in about 15 minutes: http://chipmusic.org/r4c7/music/fmynth-demo
Is that adequate?

PROTODOME
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So, by your own definition, FMYNTH music could be created entirely without FM synthesis?

Puke_Flytalker
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Maine

imma break your genre lolz jk like this? idk i whipped this up improv style in fl in like 10min i wasnt really paying much attention i just heard FMYNTH made me write this http://chipmusic.org/puke_flytalker/music/fmynth-demo

chunter
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Brunswick, GA USA

What happens when you put FMYTHs in Diet Coke?

Theta_Frost
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Milwaukee, WI

I think basing a genre off of instrumentation is a bad idea.

Mrwimmer
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Los Angeles, CA
Theta_Frost wrote:

I think basing a genre off of instrumentation is a bad idea.

Matej
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R4C7
Exactly! Nice demo!!!
- ambient focused liquid-dnb (yep cymbals,lowhats, hihats will be from Liquid DNB)
- breakbeat (Yes can be breakbeat drums there too but this is not strictly rule)
But also we can be inspired by slower drums like was in 90s RNB (Royksopp song) or even highpitched dubstep drums aka IDM drums (Aphex Twin song) (do you remember 2step or UK garage ? so such drums too) or liquid drumandbass (Apollo 440). But keep octave high (like in jungle dnb) and then use smooth bassdrum kick in background...
Simply that 3 songs will be inspiration. And when there will be more types of drums, music will be more colorful (not all hip hop songs have same drums or rock songs). But keep it relaxed, highpitched and fast or slower but more complex...

PROTODOME
"So, by your own definition, FMYNTH music could be created entirely without FM synthesis?"
Nooo! There must be at least one instrument (in main ambient melody) using FM synthesis...
If that instrument will be created by FM VSTi or it will be FM synthesizer or FM keyboard or old game console - computer with FM soundchip or whatever... is up to you. But 1 instrument or channel must be FM! Everything else can be based upon samples, gameboys, NES etc etc...

PUKE FLYTAKER
Yep! Nice demo! Thanks for support!

CHUNTER
3:35
youtube.com/watch?v=DOFgFAcGHQc

THETA FROST&MRWIMMER
And why it is so bad idea?  Dubstep gots its wobble bass (90% of songs are using NI Massive), acid house its Roland TB-303. There are toons of examples... So why not FM?

FMYNTH simply will have at least one FM instrument or one FM channel in sequencer.
Everything else can be PSG, samples, VSTis, singing or what ever else...
I think there will be still huge space for creativity. And that FM instrument will brings
its characteristic sound... Something like scratching is in hiphop, rap music...

@ALL
Everyone who will upload His or Her own FMYNTH demo here until 25. december will be
"founding father" or "founding mother" of FMYNTH music style... His or Her name will
be in official Wikipedia etc etc...

Last edited by Matej (Nov 14, 2013 1:08 pm)

Boddrick
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None of the 'instrumentation genres' you mentioned require any particular instrument to be that genre. Not every dubstep track has a bass wobble, and much less than 90% use Massive. Putting the rule "There must be at least one instrument (in main ambient melody) using FM synthesis" onto a genre seems very strange to me.

Genres are funny hazy things that materialise when they need to. Manufacturing one just seems crazy.

Matej
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Boddrick wrote:

None of the 'instrumentation genres' you mentioned require any particular instrument to be that genre. Not every dubstep track has a bass wobble, and much less than 90% use Massive. Putting the rule "There must be at least one instrument (in main ambient melody) using FM synthesis" onto a genre seems very strange to me.

Genres are funny hazy things that materialise when they need to. Manufacturing one just seems crazy.

Its crazy. But why not? There was someone who invented Skweee...
There was someone who invented House...
So it is about pioneers too.
Manufacturing one just seems crazy but it is part of creative process.

And using FM...
Hmm and what about piano music? So can there be piano music withouth piano??? Nooo...

FMYNTH means FM SYNTH. Where is problem?
There are toons of FM VSTis... Even freeware or opensource...
https://www.google.sk/?gws_rd=cr&ei … are+fm+vst
https://www.google.sk/?gws_rd=cr&ei … rce+fm+vst
There are toons of cheap FM Yamaha keyboards for sale on ebay...
There is freeware Deflemask, VGMMM, PowerFM etc etc...

Dubstep withouth wobbles...
Its different style chillstep (DFRNT, Burial for example)...
So not dubstep but chillstep.

Its very easy to use FM. No science. Fruity Loops gots one inside...
Sytrus... For example.

Rock and roll had specific instruments.
Hip hop had specific instruments.
Trap and dubstep is defined by specific instruments...
Why not FMYNTH?

And if you dont like it you dont like it.
Its natural to use specific instruments in some genres...

Last edited by Matej (Nov 14, 2013 4:41 pm)

chunter
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You can spend your next 10,000 free hours developing a new genre in any way you like, but you'll soon discover, if you haven't already:

FM sounds thin and brittle, so it's hard to make good leads, especially...

...when you're using pulse waves in the background, which will naturally overpower that lead harmonically.

I think you'd have an easier time saying "I want to bring smooth breaks back." The world will pick a better name for your style, if you don't. Good luck.

Last edited by chunter (Nov 14, 2013 4:57 pm)

Puke_Flytalker
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Maine

im making this experimental genre myself its called "music" its gonna be hot!!!!!

Limitbreak
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Arizona

This has the potential to be bigger than chipos.

Infinity Curve
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Matej wrote:

Its crazy. But why not? There was someone who invented Skweee...
There was someone who invented House...
So it is about pioneers too.
Manufacturing one just seems crazy but it is part of creative process.

Ya, but they likely didn't set-out and say I am making this 'new music and it is called x and involves the use of y and z; others, follow me and do as I do'; they just made their music and other people named it as way of identifying it.

Matej wrote:

Rock and roll had specific instruments.
Hip hop had specific instruments.
Trap and dubstep is defined by specific instruments...
Why not FMYNTH?

What are you talking about?  What specific 'instrument' makes hiphop? trap and dubstep?