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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Question About FM
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:15:54 EDT
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> I can't take it anymore! I can't wait a year to take Bose's accoustics
> course to learn this. What, exactly *is* FM sound synthesis and why is
> it so great? Somebody out there must know! [CHARLES FORSYTHE]

For a good summary of FM synthesis and its beginnings, read the paper by
John Chowning (of Stanford's CCRMA) called "Synthesis of Complex Audio
Spectra by Means of Frequency Modulation".  It appeared originally in
the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (Vol. 21, No. 7, Sept. 1973),
and it was reproduced in the second issue (Vol. 1, No. 2) of the Computer
Music Journal.  Those first few issues of CMJ are chock full of absolutely
excellent theoretical articles about digital synthesis, simulation of
acoustic instruments and motion of sound sources.  I stopped subscribing
during the course of volume four.  Does anyone else out there still
subscribe and have recommendations (or not) about the journal?

(Charles, CMJ is published by MIT Press, or at least it was until recently.
In the early days it was published out of Menlo Park CA, hence the early
Stanford contributions.)
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					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr