Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: Stupid Question About FM Message-ID: <1714@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:15:54 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1714 Posted: Sun Sep 15 23:15:54 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:44:09 EDT References: <817@mit-vax.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 > 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.) -- "Wait a minute. '*WE*' decided??? *MY* best interests????" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr