The Power of FM Workshop 3

DEXED fuctionallity (the rest), special C:M ratios (pitch, harmonicity etc) and Brian Eno´s violin patch from 1987.

Timeline:

0:00:00 Welcome

0:00:49 Column 1 DEXED

0:00:49 The LFO

0:01:15 AMD and PMD

0:01:54 AMD and PMD Sensitivity

0:04:20 LFO Delay

0:04:42 LFO Sync

0:05:30 A Keyboard Split

0:07:39 Column 2 FM Practical Theory

0:07:39 Fundamental, Pitch and Ratio

0:11:11 Calculating the Pitch, Part 1

0:14:32 Ratio and Pitch: A (too) simple Rule

0:15:00 Ratio and Pitch, a bad Surprise

0:16:10 Sub-Carrier Frequencies with DEXED

0:17:16 Sub-Carrier Frequencies with NI´s FM8

0:17:49 Sub-Carrier Frequencies with u-he´s Bazille

0:18:12 Sub-Carrier Frequencies with ImageLine´s Sytrus

0:18:38 Sub-Carrier Frequencies with Korg´s Volca FM

0:19:40 5,000 spectra

0:20:30 Irregular Frequencies: The Principles

0:24:52 Refining the System of Ratios: practicle Pitch

0:27:30 Pitch and Ratio: A Summary

0:31:20 System of Ratios, Refinement 1

0:31:50 Real Pitch and Perceived Pitch

0:33:17 The Sound of the Lonely Fundamental

0:40:45 Distances between the Fundamental and the First Upper Partial

0:43:25 System of Ratios: Next Refinement

0:43:33 Harmonicity

0:51:45 System of Ratios: Refinement again

0:52:53 Harmonicity and the Rule of the LCM (lowest common multiple)

0:55:25 Subordinate LCM

0:58:00 Column 3 Brian Eno´s Violin Patch from 1987

0:58:00 Complexity of the Patch

1:02:31 General Structure of the Patch

1:03:38 The Carrier

1:05:42 Modulation Chain 1: Operator 2 and Feedbacvk

1:11:49 Modulation Chain 2: Operators 3 and 4

1:17:52 Modulation Chain 3: Operators 5 and 6

1:28:27 Some Words ant the End

 

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Analysis of the preset "HS Tiddlymoo". All components and some ideas how to tweak the preset. Timeline:

00:00 Introduction

00:43 The 3 Components

02:57 Component 1. OSC1

03:49 The Wave Table

06:24 Frequency Ratios, Part 1

07:05 OSC Modes

10:07 Invert

11:24 Hypercomb

12:50 Component 2: FMOs and Frequency Modulation

14:30 Key Scaling

15:40 The MSEGs

17:05 Again: FM

18:18 FM, FM, FM

21:43 Component 3: OSC2 and VCF1

22:30 Filter FX

24:08 Three Envelopes

27:25 VCF and Envelopes

29:50 Changing the Preset

32:05 Some Words ant the End