It didn't look that way at the time, mind you, with so many established analogue synth manufacturers going to the wall in the face of the Yamaha DX7's FM synthesis onslaught. But look at things ...

A wavetable synth isn’t a deep application of a weird reverse FFT — that’s FM synthesis. Wavetable synthesis is simply playing a single waveform — one arbitrary wave — at different speeds.

However, the Sega Genesis took a different path at the end of the videogame chipmusic era, packing a YM2612 FM synthesis chip to deliver fat basslines and searing solos. [Thea] has always been a ...

NAMM 2025: We can always trust Behringer to make a big splash with its announcements, and while its return to NAMM 2025 was ...

For makers of synths and studio technology, however, the emphasis was shifting away from NAMM even before then. Berlin’s ...

Frequency Modulation (or FM) synthesis is a simple and powerful method for creating and controlling complex spectra, introduced by John Chowning of Stanford University around 1973. In its simplest ...

Used in cellphones for ringtones and low-end sound cards, FM synthesis does not create sound as faithfully as wavetable synthesis, which uses actual samples of the instruments. See MIDI and ...

Remember, Yamaha's long history in synthesis means even their entry-level instruments benefit from decades of innovation. Whether you're drawn to classic FM sounds or modern hybrid synthesis, there's ...

Reverb, chorus and delay add another dimension to the three onboard synths. These have been created by German developer Stefan Stenzel and include an FM synth and an analogue synth, replete with all ...