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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Stupid Question About FM
Message-ID: <817@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:36:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:36:15 1985
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
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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! I expect that I am simply
missing something obvious because I do know:

1) What a Fourrier transform is.
2) What a Z-transform is
3) What FM is (as a process)
4) Just about any other "signal processing" jargon.

Unfortunately, MIT loves theory but not application, so they never
bothered to explain how FM could be used to create amazing synth effects
and such.

I appreciete any answers anyone cares to send, and if anybody else has
been silently ignorant, I will be happy to summarize to the net.
-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX

"What? With her?"

-Adam from _The_Book_of_Genesis_