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FM8 - Help

elastic_plastic
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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 09:50:52

hey guys.... i just recently installed the FM8 vst... but i am having a lot of trouble understanding the modulation matrix.

are there any videos which i could refer and learn from?

thanks

aje
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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 10:28

Trial and Error, and a lot Blood Sweat and Tears

I love the sound of FM8, but couldn`t understand the damn thing either, and the presets suck-ass. So I started loading patches I kinda liked, and just started to wildly change parameters in the expert mode page. And I have made some pretty cool patches, however I have no theoretical idea how I did it, it was just trial and error

So, I know this doesn`t help you at all, but that`s how i use my FM8 and it works out well sometimes, its like a surprise box to me that produces surprisingly cool sounds

Check out my album: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/gay-satanic-hippie-tiefenrausch

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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 10:31

the presets are really good bro.... though the art is to make ur own sounds....

i checked out a few videos on youtube but they did not really cover much.

aje
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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 10:59

I don`t know, i don`t like the presets. But as I said I have tweaked them to my liking through lots of Trial and Error, the patches I made sound nothing like the original presets anymore. But to make a patch from absolute zero, good luck, hehehe

Check out my album: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/gay-satanic-hippie-tiefenrausch

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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 11:32

haha... true that!!

LuneCell

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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 13:22

www.soundcloud.com/lunecell

elastic_plastic
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Posted : Jul 7, 2011 13:46

thanks a ton

Bipolar
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Posted : Jul 13, 2011 03:14

really nice video man., thanks!

mudpeople
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Posted : Jul 13, 2011 06:36

Trial and error, but once its learned it seems so easy...

Took me 8 years of working with digital audio to learn

and i finally saved a patch for the FM8 that i made from scratch
http://www.mudpeople.lsdxm.com/mudWONKuno.ksd
Its dry, but that leaves room for effecting

mudpeople
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Posted : Jul 13, 2011 07:20

also what helped me get familiar with teh synthesis method was using Live's Operator, and Andychrist's video

Operator I think of as a My First FM Synth, its considerably more straightforward and easier to get good sounds out of than FM8, and Andy explains it well.

It helps me to imagine the waveforms modulating each other, imagining their frequency interactions, visualizing how theyre FMing

. It never hurts to read up on the synthesis technique either.

ALSO IMPORTANTLY;

TURN DOWN YOUR SPEAKERS when messing with any FM, they can cause dangerously high frequency spikes. Id recommend one use a limiter with 0db ceiling when starting out with FM, and avoid headphones!!!

zero_the_hero
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Posted : Jul 13, 2011 08:51

MDMA makes a new tut for dark fm
sounds with FM8-
It is in portugisian language,
but imo words are no necassary:

http://pt.minddoctorsmakeacid.com/course/videos.php?sub_cat=14&sub_sub_cat=70

elastic_plastic
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Posted : Jul 13, 2011 10:00

thanks a ton!!! gnna check it once done with work

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