Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf 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 Article-I.D.: mit-vax.817 Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:36:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 05:20:31 EDT Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 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_