I have started a series of FM synthesis tutorial videos. yay me!
Pt1 - Envelopes
Pt2 - Carriers & Modulators & a basic kick drum
Pt3 - Feedback / Hi Hats
Pt4 - Decay Rate / Sustain Level
Upcoming stuff
- multipliers
- operators/snares
- Better percussion
- Faking filters
- different algorithms and why yamaha are a pain in the arse.
If you have any questions, ideas, corrections, requests, let me know.
I got loads of information on FM from
This talk by virt.
Little-scales excellent doumentation for the MD interface.
The sadly defunct Soundshock boards.
Shiru's VGM maker and its manual.
Louis Gorenfeld's getting started with FM
This Sonicstate video
Original Post:
A while back I did a little tutorial series on Nanoloop 2.3 tutorial series on the youtubes which people seemed to think was pretty helpful. I found it fun an educational and I have been thinking about doing another one on FM synthesis, partly cause i want to learn more about it and partly because there are some exciting new and upcoming FM tools about (gimic, little-scales MD interface, VGM Maker, Deflmask).
A lot of the information i have found on the internet about FM synthesis seems either "just experiment" at one end or "hardcore math" at the other. Not much in the "I want to make a kick drum, where do i start?" area. So, would people be up for this or is it a bit too niche?
I am about to move house so I probably won't start on this for a month and I am not a Hizmi, Alex mauer, utabi, virt level genius by any means at all but I might be able to help some people out!
Last edited by Lazerbeat (Mar 22, 2012 8:07 am)