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I'm just saying that - from, let's call it a philosophical point of view - I would not want to add a newly synthesised music part to increase the bass, rather I would want to just use an audio signal as an input to an audio process of some sort.

I like how bassy and over the top trap music and related genres sound, and I'm wanting to get a similar feel with my chipmusic.

It did take quite a while for the last batch to be sent out, then for some people 2 months of shipping on top. Enough people asked if they could pay more for faster shipping that he made it an option for the latest batch, but at that point none had been built from that batch. A few weeks ago (easter weekend i think) he showed boards and parts had arrived and he was starting to build that weekend, but this is one guy building and testing by hand in his spare time. Im sure he will be in touch soon with an update

Saturn has a very powerful sound setup...

You have 32 channels/operators. Each channel can either be an operator or a PCM channel. You can have as many FM channels as you wish, limited by your operators... you can have 31 one operator channels and 1 PCM channel or perhaps 1x 32 oprator FM channel. Each op/ch has self feedback, and you can tie the oprators in almost any algo you want. One operator can have 2x input operators, or 1 input operator + self feedback. You are NOT limited to certain waveforms (only with hardware vibrato, there you got sine, triangle, saw, noise, like OPM), you can use any kind of waveforms you want, even drum samples, lol.
Then there's the DSP. I have not figured out wether the DSP gets its default program from 68K/BIOS or its stored inside a ROM in the chip... you CAN load in your own DSP code though.
Then there's the lovely 68K in charge of all sound related tasks

You are meant to use its synthesis part for sounds rather than plain samples... you only have PCM sample support, no ADPCM (only if you do it in software on 68K) and raw PCM gets limiting with 512KB of sound RAM, but with FM you can do wonders with just one single 512byte sample !

Donated! This is looking awesome, and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Also, for anyone here looking to try out making music with the Genesis, even through trackers like Deflemask or VGM_MM, Aly's manual for the FMDrive is fantastic at spelling out the features and the basics of making FM instruments. I wish I had a resource like this when I started off with VGM_MM. Thanks a ton for making it free! I hope it helps more people looking to work on this great platform.